Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Reexamination Certificate
2001-07-13
2003-01-28
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
C273S259000, C273S277000, C273S430000, C273S431000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06511069
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to trivia games and more particularly pertains to a new baseball trivia game for learning baseball trivia.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of trivia games is known in the prior art. More specifically, trivia games heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,884,914; 4,856,780; 5,186,467; 4,907,808; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 340,746; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,660,389.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new baseball trivia game. The inventive device includes a game board having a top surface having a generally rectangular shape. The top surface has a game path thereon including a plurality of game spaces. The game path generally resembles a baseball diamond and has a beginning space representing home plate. A plurality of game pieces is provided. Each of plurality of trivia cards has a first side and second side. Each of the first sides has a different baseball trivia question thereon, and each of the second sides has an answer thereon relating to the trivia question on a respective the first side. The questions are either regular questions or slam questions. The first sides have game space movement indicia thereon ranging from 1 to 9 for regular questions and greater than 10 for slam questions. The players answer in turn one of the trivia questions and moves their respective game pieces the number of game spaces indicated by the movement indicia if the player answers the trivia question correctly. The player wins the game by moving their game piece completely around the game path.
In these respects, the baseball trivia game according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of learning baseball trivia.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of trivia games now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new baseball trivia game construction wherein the same can be utilized for learning baseball trivia.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new baseball trivia game apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the trivia games mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new baseball trivia game which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art trivia games, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a game board having a top surface having a generally rectangular shape. The top surface has a game path thereon including a plurality of game spaces. The game path generally resembles a baseball diamond and has a beginning space representing home plate. A plurality of game pieces is provided. Each of plurality of trivia cards has a first side and second side. Each of the first sides has a different baseball trivia question thereon, and each of the second sides has an answer thereon relating to the trivia question on a respective the first side. The questions are either regular questions or slam questions. The first sides have game space movement indicia thereon ranging from 1 to 9 for regular questions and greater than 10 for slam questions. The players answer in turn one of the trivia questions and moves their respective game pieces the number of game spaces indicated by the movement indicia if the player answers the trivia question correctly. The player wins the game by moving their game piece completely around the game path.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new baseball trivia game apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the trivia games mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new baseball trivia game which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art trivia games, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new baseball trivia game which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new baseball trivia game which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball trivia game which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such baseball trivia game economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball trivia game which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball trivia game for learning baseball trivia.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new baseball trivia game which includes a game board having a top surface having a generally rectangular shape. The top surface has a game path thereon including a plurality of game spaces. The game path generally resembles a baseball diamond and has a beginning space representing home plate. A plurality of game pieces is provided. Each of plurality of trivia cards has a first side and second side. Each of the first sides has a different baseball trivia question thereon, and each of the second sides has an answer thereon relating to the trivia question on a respective the first side.
Layno Benjamin H.
Mendiratta Vishu K
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