A NEW GAME.
The Japanese game of “ Slap Bang ” is very popular in England just now. You make a board like the father of all chess-boards, at least sixteen squares each way—twenty-two, we believe, isthe Japanese number. On the “ Go-baug ” is played by two players, with small counters of opposite colors—black and white buttons do very well. Each puts a counter down alternately he who first gets five together in a row, either directly or obliquely (ie., in the direction either of the rook’s or the bishop’s move at chess) wins the »ame. This is doubtless only an expansion of the game known to school-boys as Tit, Tat, 'to, but the combinations are very interesting— in fact, almost inexhadstable. It isa far better game than draughts, V
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Evening Star, Issue 4092, 7 April 1876, Page 4
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127A NEW GAME. Evening Star, Issue 4092, 7 April 1876, Page 4
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