THREE-ARCH DISCOUNT-GAME.
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This board is as wide and thick as the other, but is only eighteen
inches in length. The center arch is four inches wide, the two small
ones three inches each. In playing, each boy rolls from four to ten
marbles each, every marble that passes under the center arch counting
forty; if the marble goes through either small arch, twenty is deducted
from the count, or, as the boys say, is "counted off" each time. So, if
you are not a good shot, it is likely you will lose more than you will
gain. In this, or the previous game, if you fail to pop your marble
through any arch, it is lost.
THE TEN-BLOCK COUNT-GAME.
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You are to make ten blocks of wood, each about one inch square; upon
one side of each you mark the figure 0; on the other sides the numbers
10, 20, 30, 40, and 50, the 50 being upon the side opposite the 0. The
blocks are placed upon the floor or carpet in the form of a half
diamond, as shown. The in each case being placed upward, each player
rolls four marbles singly at the blocks, the object being to hit as
many of them as possible.
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