Directions for Playing

Battle of Bunker Hill

Prepare this game for playing by cutting off this card at point shown by dotted lines on other side. Then carefully trim around the counters.

This game is played by two persons, the nine center circles represent the Fortress. The Fortress is attacked by 24 Soldiers and defended by two Officers. The Soldiers are placed on the 24 points without the Fortress, and the Officers within the Fortress, on any two points, at the option of the player. The Soldiers, who make the first move, can only advance toward the Fortress along the colored lines, and but only one step at a time, without the possibility of retreating. The Soldiers are not allowed to take the Officers. The Officers can move in any direction along both colored and black lines, and can take the Soldiers according to the rules for playing at Droughts or Checkers, by passing over to a vacant point. They may even take two or three, by leaping forward and backward, provided a spot is left unoccupied between each of them. Thus the Officers endeavor to take as many of the Soldiers as possible, not losing sight of their retreat to the Fortress in which they should take shelter whenever they find it convenient.

An Officer need to take the Soldiers unless he chooses to do so, but if he refuses to take when opportunity is presented, he shall be taken off the board. The chief aims of the Soldiers must be to drive the Officers out of the Fortress. In order to take possession of the nine points within the Fortress, for until the nine points of the Fortress are occupied by them, they cannot win the game. If it should not be within their power to effect this, which will be the case as long as the Fortress is defended by one of the Officers, and he cannot be removed from it, the Officers are the winners. But should it so happen that the Officers driven out of the Fortress cannot return to it, and their adversary by some false moves is incapable of occupying all the nine points of the Fortress, the game is at an end, though not decided.

Questions

• 21. What judge first established circuit courts and anointed Saul and David as kings of Israel? Samuel.
• 22. How did Lot show that he was selfish? By choosing the best ground instead of letting his uncle Abraham have the choice.
• 23. To what ancient capital of Assyria was Jonah sent 800 B.C.? Nineveh.
• 24. Who, in a dream, saw a ladder reaching to Heaven, with angels ascending and descending thereon? Jacob.
• 25. Who foretold the great famine, after being sold in Egypt for twenty pieces of silver? Joseph.
• 26. What Old Testament prophet was cast into the den of lions? Daniel.
• 27. What small round food did the children of Israel eat in the wilderness? Manna.
• 28. Who was the first missionary to a heathen nation - swallowed by a whale? Jonah.
• 29. Shortest verse in the bible? Jesus wept.
• 30. Who prayed to be "where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest?" Job.
• 31. Who led the children of Israel out of Egypt and wrote the first five books of the Bible? Moses.
• 32. What book of scriptures was written by Solomon to his son? Proverbs.
• 33. How many kings of Egypt are mentioned in the Bible, and what were the names of eight? Twelve, eight called Pharaoh.
• 34. What two Herods are mentioned in the Bible? Herod the Great and Herod Antipas.
• 35. Who wrote the Book of Acts? St. Luke.
• 36. Name the forerunner of Christ who was beheaded by Herod? John the Baptist.
• 37. In what city did Christ spend his boyhood? Nazareth.
• 38. Who wrote the greatest number of books in the New Testament, and is called "The Apostle to the Gentiles?" Paul.
• 39. What twins are mentioned in the Bible? Esau and Jacob.
• 40. Which New Testament writer gives the most complete history of the childhood of Christ? Luke 2:1-52.
• 41. Who is supposed to have been buried at Venice and wrote the second book of the New Testament? St. Mark.
• 42. What city is the birthplace of Christ, David and Saul? Bethlehem.
• 43. How long was Jesus tempted in the wilderness? Forty days and nights.
• 44. To what island was St. John banished? Island of Patmos.
• 45. Who prayed in prison when an earthquake loosened the prison doors? Paul and Silas.
• 46. Which of the twelve disciples was the talker? Simon Peter.
• 47. Which was "the doubter?" Thomas.
• 48. Which one was the loving one? John.
• 49. Which one denied Christ three times, and was crucified with his head downward? Peter.
• 50. Which of Christ's disciples committed suicide at having betrayed his master? Judas.
• 51. For what price did Judas betray Christ? Thirty pieces of silver, equal to $16.96.
• 52. What Roma procurator condemned Jesus to die? Pontius Pilate.
• 53. By what method was Jesus put to death - abolished by "Constantine the Just?" Crucifixion.
• 54. Who buried Jesus? Joseph of Arimathea.
• 55. What book, written by St. Luke, gives particular account of Christ's ascension? Acts of the Apostles.
• 56. Who were Christ's earthly parents? Joseph and Mary.
• 57. Where did his parents flee with him when Herod was seeking his life? Egypt.
• 58. How old was Christ when he talked in the temple to the doctors? Twelve years.
• 59. What apostle bore the same name as the first king of Israel? Saul before conversion, afterward Paul.
• 60. Who wrote Revelation? John.