Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Alignment games
Patent
1985-02-04
1985-09-17
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Alignment games
273288, 283 49, A63F 300
Patent
active
045416346
ABSTRACT:
Each player has a board having a number (N) of rows each of which comprises a number of sockets. The number of sockets in the first row is one, the number of sockets in the second row is two, the number of sockets in the third row is three, and so on up to the Nth row, which N sockets. The game is played with a multiplicity of small pieces which fit into the sockets and which, when laid on a table with the proper orientation, reveal one of a number of N of first (or "visible") characteristics, such as color. Each small piece also has one of a number N of second (or "concealable") characteristics, such as color, which may be revealed or concealed, as desired. The small piece is constructed in such a manner that the first characteristic is always viewable whenever the second characteristic is revealed. The game apparatus also includes a die to determine the sequence of play, as well as a number N of small pieces which are wild. The game proceeds in major increments which I call "jousts". A joust ends every time a player fills each row of his board with small pieces having the same second characteristic, the second characteristic for each row differing from that of all other rows, and said player may be said to have won said joust. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, disclosed and claimed herein, the game apparatus also includes a tabulator which records the total number of filled sockets for each player at the end of each joust and accumulates said totals from joust to joust until a predetermined total is reached by at least one player. In recording said total numbers, a predetermined premium is added to the total of the player who won the joust.
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Game of "Maltese".TM. box top and rules, copyright 1977.
"Games with Playing Cards", by Joseph Leeming, published by Franklin-Watts, Inc., N.Y., copyright 1949, pp. 53-57 and 76-80.
Nields Henry C.
Oechsle Anton O.
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