With the cards thus marked, any game of Patience can be played as easily by a blind person as by an ordinary player.
Checkers
An ordinary Checker Board can be adapted for the use of the blind with very little trouble and no expense.
Cut thirty-two squares of thick cardboard, each square identical in size with the black squares on the Checker Board. Upon each of the black spaces one of these pieces of card should be glued, so that when complete the board is composed of sunk and raised instead of colored squares.
For the convenience of any ordinary person who may be playing with a blind opponent, the cardboard squares should be colored black with India ink.
The checkers usually purchased have a molding on both top and bottom. It will simplify matters considerably if you can buy a set with one side only molded. By using the white men with the molding uppermost and the black men reversed, as in [Fig. 5], the difference will be sufficient to enable the blind person to distinguish by touch.
Fig. 5.—Molded (white) and plain (black) draughts for the blind.
The same result can be obtained by glueing discs of cardboard or stiff paper, upon one side of each man, of one of the sets.