Compendium of Games

Spear's Games (on cover only)

J. W. Spear & Sons Ltd. (on cover only)

Enfield, Middlesex, England

1309/11 (on rules only)

"SPEAR'S GAMES" in oval (on cover only)

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«Compendium
of
Games»

DRAUGHTS

SNAKES & LADDERS

SIEGE

5 IN A ROW

BINGO

STEEPLECHASE

TIDDLY WINKS

WORD MAKING

SOLITAIRE

LUDO

«SPEAR'S GAMES»

MADE BY J. W. SPEAR & SONS, LTD., ENFIELD, MIDDX., ENGLAND

compendium, draughts, checkers, snakes & ladders, wiege, 5 in a row, bingo, wordmaking, solitaire, ludo, steeplechase

printed under box lid

Rules for: "LUDO", "BINGO", "WORD-MAKING" and "WORD-TAKING", "5 IN A ROW", "SOLITAIRE", "GAME OF SIEGE", "SNAKES AND LADDERS", "DRAUGHTS", "STEEPLECHASE", and "TIDDLY WINKS".

cardboard box

13 3/16 inches wide — 9 15/16 inches high — 1 inches deep

21.1 cm wide — 145.3 cm high — 2.5 cm deep

The cover has a green background.

"Compendium" above "of" above "Games" (in red script with yellow upper shadow) appears on a black "teardrop" shape in the center of the cover.

Various games are shown all around the outer portions of the cover (from bottom left, clockwise): "SOLITAIRE", "LUDO", "DRAUGHTS", "SNAKES & LADDERS", "SIEGE", "5 IN A ROW", "BINGO", "STEEPLECHASE", "TIDDLY WINKS", "WORD MAKING". An illustration of each game appears next to its name.

At bottom left: the logo "SPEAR'S GAMES" in an oval (in black on a white inner background).

At bottom center: "MADE BY J. W. SPEAR & SONS, LTD., ENFIELD, MIDDX., ENGLAND".

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printed rules

green, with "COMPENDIUM OF GAMES" (in yellow with black shadow) on all four aprons.

white wraparound label

Copy 1 of the game includes 1 red wooden die, 1 very dark brown dice cup (marked on the bottom: "MADE IN" around top, "SPEAR'S" over "GAMES" across the middle, and "ENGLAND" around bottom) and 2 small red plastic pawns.

A square yellow plastic piece has an array of 9 by 9 small circular holes in it. A "SIEGE" cardboard game board fits over it to play that game. A "SOLITAIRE" cardboard game board also fits over it to play that game.

The game comes with an assortment of letters of the alphabet (in red) printed on square white thin cardboard that has been severed from a full sheet with perforations.

Bingo call numbers (e.g., "47") along with the corresponding letter from "BINGO" (e.g., "O") are included in a sealed plastic bag. A folded sheet with all bingo numbers is provided to track called numbers.

5 bingo cards cards are included. White cardboard markers to be used to cover numbers on the bingo cards are provided on an unpunched (unseparated) perforated sheet, folded.

Cardboard game boards (9 3/4" square) are provided for Snakes & Ladders, Parcheesi, Steeplechase, and checkers (draughts).

Painted wooden checkers in both white and black (12 each) are included in a sealed plastic bag.

An equal number of small plastic pieces in both red and blue (used to play Siege and Solitaire) are included in a sealed bag.

A cheap red, thin target consists of 7 compartments separated by raised plastic borders: the round center without a number on it, and six radial sectors marked "1", "6", "2", "3", "4", and "5".

Copy 1 comes with very cheap plastic winks with burrs and untrimmed plastic edges:

1 squidger ( 7/8" in diameter): blue, green, red, yellow.

Winks (11/16" in diameter): 4 blue, 4 green, 2 red, 3 yellow.

Rick Tucker