Check Mate / Check / Jake Mate

Translucent painted backglass set into a cream-coloured wooden cabinet. A swirling concentric spiral of violet, indigo and pale blue arcs fills the whole background. Across the top-left, large two-line title lettering reads JAKE over MATE in fat yellow block capitals with a heavy black outline and a red brushstroke swoosh behind it. A white rectangular score panel with black digit wheels and a comma sits at top right, reading 0 0,0 0 0. The middle of the glass is packed with a tumbling crowd of comic-strip medieval and fantasy figures in jester hats, striped hose, blue and yellow tabards and horned helmets, all falling head over heels as if dropping through the air; several have green-gloved hands with curled fingers and pale spindly legs. Centre-bottom, a lone man in a bright green suit sits heavily on a small stool on a black-and-white chequered floor, elbows on knees, hand at his chin, looking exhausted. Oversized translucent chess pieces in brown, pale green and amber stand on the chequerboard around him. Below the glass, cream cabinet wood carries two black oblong slots and a red crown emblem.

A full-colour illustrated backglass built around chess imagery. The lower third is a black-and-white chequered chessboard rendered in perspective, with oversized chess pieces standing on the squares, including a tall piece rising in the centre foreground. Above the board, costumed characters are drawn as living chess pieces: a horse-headed knight in orange and red at far left, a slim figure in a green-and-yellow striped tunic beside it, a large seated figure in a green robe with long yellow hair at centre, a red-maned crowned figure mounted on a horse high in the middle, a tall crowned king with an orange beard at right, and a further robed piece at the far right. The backdrop is a swirling radial sunburst of turquoise, teal, purple and magenta rays. Two plain white rectangular score windows sit side by side near the top, with a single yellow-on-black square at top left and a yellow '9' marker at top right. The main title CHECK appears in large block capitals left of centre.

Square backglass painted in a flat, saturated cartoon style with heavy black outlines and radiating purple-and-blue sunburst rays over a purple field. A chess-themed tournament tableau: at centre a smiling blonde woman in a short green outfit rides a rearing yellow chess-knight horse whose head and legs are shaped like a bishop; she holds a red-and-yellow pennant. On the left, two more yellow knight-horses rear and collide, their riders in green and yellow. On the right, three mounted figures in purple, blue and red capes ride rearing horses, with a tall red-robed, bearded king standing at the far right edge. At bottom centre a man in a green suit with a pink tie sits slumped on a giant yellow chess-king piece, chin on hand, beside a huge brown chess-king or pawn form. A black-and-white chequered floor band runs across the bottom. Bold yellow block title lettering with black outline sits upper-left-centre over the rays. Four white mechanical score windows with black digits sit at the corners, and yellow diamonds numbered 1 to 4 mark player positions.