THE GAME OF TILTING THE BUCKET

Glevum Series

UK

(no catalog number shown on game)

"GLEVUM" SERIES [on rules]

«THE GAME OF
TILTING
THE BUCKET»

BRITISH MANUFACTURE

MADE IN ENGLAND

bucket, water dunk, cart

label under box lid

"TILTING THE BUCKET"

cardboard box

13 ¾ inches wide — 7 inches high — 1 ⅛ inches deep

84.5 cm wide — 17.8 cm high — 3.5 cm deep

Label with white outer border, then black.

"THE GAME OF" in yellow, above "TILTING" above "THE" above "BUCKET", all in yellow with black outline, on red area at upper left with black outline. Boy (white short pants, white and red shirt) pushing cart containing other boy (yellow and red shirt, white short pants), who pulls a stick to dump a bucket of water on himself from an elevated stand. Foreground is green as in grass. Background has a faint yellow fence on a black background, and trees and other greenery on horizon, with a couple of houses on horizon at left. Sky is dark blue.

At lower left: "BRITISH MANUFACTURE" (black).

At lower right: "MADE IN ENGLAND" (black).

red

Red with no design.

medium-brown lined label to near edge where red wrap-around paper edges appear

Playing surface is attached to inside of box bottom.

Forefront of playing surface has a wooden box cut at an angle inside the box bottom. A metal ring is attached to a metal rod that in turn is attached to a wooden rod. The metal ring is pulled and then released to propel a ball (1/2" diameter) from inside the wooden box toward the target.

The target for shooting the ball consists of two natural wooden dowel posts (6 5/8" long, 1/4" in diameter) that sit in holes in a wooden separator (6 7/8" long, 3/8" wide, and 1 1/8" tall), with a semicircle hole (3/4" tall) at middle bottom, mounted on the playing surface. The two dowel posts are connected via metal wire, bent at each end. Also on the metal wire is a wooden dowel with a wooden bucket affixed at top, and a round green cardboard target on the bottom. The round green target end of the bucket device is placed behind a semicircle hole in the middle of the wood separator.

The objective is to pull the metal ring back and release it to propel the ball to strike the round green target, thereby tilting the bucket, into which a white die with black dots (1/4" on each edge) is placed. When the bucket tilts, the die falls onto the scoring area.

The scoring area is adjacent to the ball propeller box, and has 20 numbered targets, 4 across and 5 down, plus an additional 2 target areas adjacent to the propeller box. Top row: 6 (red), 5 (blue), 5 (yellow), 6 (red). Second row: 5 (yellow), 4 (red), 4 (blue), 5 (yellow). Third row: 6 (blue), 3 (yellow), 3 (red), 6 (blue). Fourth row: 3 (red), 2 (blue), 2 (yellow), 3 (red). Fifth row: 2 (yellow), 1 (red), 1 (blue), 1 (yellow). Sixth row (double-wide target cells): 1 (green), 1 (green).

At top left: "BRITISH MANUFACTURE." (black).

At top right: "MADE IN ENGLAND." (black).

Rick Tucker