Game Category Parlour

Cannonade or Castle Bagatelle

Cannonade or Castle Bagatelle comprises a circular mahogany board with spaces and arches for holding small ivory pieces or castles. The balls would be released from the spinner and intended to pass through the hoops and hit the castles. Jaques…

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Mark Over

Mark Over was a game which Jaques claimed was ‘the only game produced which introduces shooting at a moving object’. A large background was set up on a table and the ‘guns’ lined up facing this armed with rubber bands.…

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Rengar

Rengar was Jaques attempt to play football as a board game. There is no board with this item in the Collection but the object was to place pieces in teams on the board and move them through dice throwing and…

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