Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1988-07-29
1991-02-12
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273261, A63F 302
Patent
active
049918559
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to apparatus for playing a game.
The present invention provides apparatus for playing a game, the apparatus comprising a generally rhomboidal playing area and first and second sets of playing pieces, the sets being associated, in use, with a pair of opposing players, the playing pieces of the first set having a first identifiable characteristic, and the playing pieces of the second set having a second identifiable characteristic distinguishable from the first identifiable characteristic, the playing area having an n.times.n array of playing positions, where n is an integer greater than 5, the playing positions at a pair of opposed apices of the playing area being designated master playing positions, each master playing position having an identifiable characteristic corresponding to that of a respective set of playing pieces, and each set of playing pieces having a master playing piece and at least first, second and third groups of playing pieces, each first group having at least two identical playing pieces which are movable over the playing area in a first predetermined manner, each second group having at least three identical playing pieces which are movable over the playing area in a second predetermined manner, and each third group having at least four identical playing pieces which are movable over the playing area in a third predetermined manner, each master playing piece being movable over the playing area in a further predetermined manner, the object of the for each player to move his/her master playing the associated master playing position to other master playing position.
In a preferred embodiment, the playing area has an 8.times.8 array of playing and each set of playing pieces includes a fourth group of playing pieces, each fourth group having at five identical playing pieces which are movable over playing area in a fourth predetermined manner. Preferably, each first group has two playing pieces, each second group has three playing pieces, each third four playing pieces, and each fourth group has playing pieces. Alternatively, each third may have five playing pieces, and each fourth group have seven playing pieces.
Advantageously, the first and second identifiable characteristics are colours, for example silver and gold.
In a preferred embodiment, each master playing piece is movable from a given position to an adjacent playing position in any of the horizontal, vertical and diagonal directions. In this connection, it should be noted that the vertical direction is the direction parallel to the straight line joining the apices of the playing area occupied by the master playing positions, the horizontal direction is the direction parallel to the straight line joining the other two apices of the playing area, and the diagonal directions are the directions parallel to the sides defining the rhomboidal playing area.
Preferably, each playing piece of each first group is movable from a given playing position in either the vertical direction or the horizontal direction to any playing position in the chosen direction of movement, provided it does not jump over any other playing piece; each playing piece of each second group is movable from a given playing position in any diagonal direction to any playing position in the chosen direction of movement, provided it does not jump over any other playing piece; each playing piece of each third group is movable from a given playing position either vertically to an adjacent playing position or horizontally to an adjacent playing position and then in any diagonal direction to an adjacent playing position; and each playing piece of each fourth group is movable from a given playing position to an adjacent playing position either horizontally or in any diagonal direction.
Any playing piece may "take" an opposing playing piece by landing on the playing position occupied by said opposing playing piece.
A game apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawi
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