"Protesters Game" box cover (jigsaw puzzle, 1895)
Description
The aim of the game is to prevent the protest from getting organized: the player represents the police.
1. Game rules (at the bottom of the lid):
"The police officers have the task of dispersing the demonstrators, a difficult task to fulfill; for, while they separate them on one side, they gather on the other.
Or, in this game, the demonstrators are represented by stars; there's one on each of the 8 rectangles or triangles. The player himself represents the police.
The aim is to form a square and not let two demonstrators meet on the same path, i.e. two stars on the same horizontal, vertical or oblique line.
NOTA. - This game lends itself to a host of combinations; we give only one solution to those who expressly and formally request it."
2. Purchased by Jean and Jean-Pierre Lelièvre.
The image does not reproduce the copy kept at the Mucem.
3. The principle of this "puzzle" type game is the same as that of the Boer game.
Technical Data
Notice #024502
