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White Australia board game – application for copyright
[Sub-heading:] A NEW AUSTRALIAN GAME FOR NEW AND OLD AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE
[A rectangular gameboard plain yellow background, and a plain white map of Australia on the right. Nine red circles make a horizontal line across the centre of the board, so that four of them are placed over the map of Australia, and the others on the yellow background. The centre circle is an outline only. Each circle, except the centre circle, is labelled with a number, reading ‘3 0 1 3’, ‘3 0 1 3’ across the board. The instructions below are printed in the blank yellow areas of the board.]
INSTRUCTIONS FOR GAME
Place the Four Colored Men on the Circles in Australia, the Four White Men Outside, Centre Circle Vacant. A Circle must be skipped every move, and no back moves allowed except that any piece on the centre circle may also move to the circle next it, either backward or forward. Moves can be made on top of your own or your opponents men, so that half-a-dozen pieces may be on top of one another – only the top piece is allowed to move. As long as a move is possible, it is compulsory. When one side has no more moved the game is over. Score is counted by the number you have in your opponents ground; thus if you have two men in the "1" circle and one in the "3" your score is five. If your opponents men cover any of your pieces, these do not count. Single games may be played or any number up. With several boards any number can play at once, the losers dropping out, the last two left in playing off. Or sides may be chosen, and the individual scores of each side totalled.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR WHITE AUSTRALIA PUZZLE
Place the Men the same as the "Game." The Puzzle is to make them change places, getting all the Colored Men Out, and all the White Men In to Australia. One man can jump over the other whenever there is a vacant space on the other side. Moving backward, or moving on top of other pieces is not allowed. Jumping over your own men is not allowed. Whenever the next circle ahead is vacant you can move into it.
[Large text below the board, on the left:] White Australia Puzzle
Get the Coloured Men Out and the White Men In.
[Large text below the board, on the right:] Sweet Fifteen Puzzle
Takes more than 15 minutes to do.
Instructions on Envelope
[Large bold text printed at the bottom of the page:] A New Game and 2 Puzzles for 6d.
