Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Reexamination Certificate
2000-07-14
2001-10-09
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
C273S249000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06299169
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a board game utilizing a remote control for a television and more particularly pertains to playing a game that requires certain items to be found within a predetermined amount of time on television.
The use of televisions for amusement purposes is currently at an all-time high. Many families social lives revolve around the television. Many families have video cassette players that allow them to watch movies from their homes. Given the advent of the remote control, it is very easy for a person watching television to scan through many channels in order to find a desired program to watch. Thus, there seems to be a market for combining other amusement devices with the use of televisions.
Many people and families enjoy playing board games as a social activity. Thus, a good idea would be to combine a board game with a television whereby an objective of the game would be to find items on the television using a remote control in order to eventually win the game.
The present invention seeks to solve the abovementioned problem by providing a board game that requires participants to find certain items by scanning through the channels of a television in order to advance along a path of travel on the game board in order to ultimately win.
The use of board games is known in the prior art. More specifically, board games heretofore devised and utilized for the purpose of providing amusement 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.
By way of example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,799,683 to Bruner, Jr. discloses a remote control device used in conjunction with a color television for playing a game. U.S. Pat. No. 4,890,842 to Plange discloses a board for a car racing game in which the cars are represented by pawns.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objective and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not describe a board game utilizing a remote control for a television for playing a game that requires certain items to be found within a predetermined amount of time on television.
In this respect, the board game utilizing a remote control for a television according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of playing a game that requires certain items to be found within a predetermined amount of time on television.
Therefore, it can be appreciated that there exists a continuing need for new and improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television which can be used for playing a game that requires certain items to be found within a predetermined amount of time on television. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of board games now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television and method which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a game board shaped in a form of a televison remote control. The game board has planar upper and lower surfaces. The upper surface has a path of travel defined thereon. The path of travel includes a plurality of spaces thereon. The spaces include a starting point, an ending point, and a plurality of action spaces. The actions spaces include first action spaces and second action spaces. A plurality of playing pieces are provided which correspond with a number of participants for traveling around the path of travel of the game board. A playing die is provided to provide for movement of the playing pieces around the path of travel. A timer is provided for allotting a certain amount of time for each players turn. A plurality of first action cards correspond with the first action spaces of the game board. The first action cards indicate certain items to be found on a television using a remote control thereof. A plurality of second action cards correspond with the second action spaces of the game board. The second action cards indicate movements to be made by a player's particular playing piece.
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, of course, 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.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television which has all the advantages of the prior art board games and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new and improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television which is of durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television 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 a board game utilizing a remote control for a television economically available to the buying public.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television for playing a game that requires certain items to be found within a predetermined amount of time on television.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved board game utilizing a remote control for a television including a game board shaped in a form of a televison remote control. The game board has planar upper and lower surfaces. The upper surface has a path of travel defined thereon. The path of travel includes a plurality of spaces thereon. The spaces include a starting point, an ending point, and a plurality of action spaces. The actions spaces include first action spaces and second action spaces. A plurality of playing pieces are provided which correspond with a number of participants for traveling around the path of travel of the game board. A playing die i
Adams Anthony
Campbell-Adams Laura
Goldstein Law Offices P.C.
Layno Benjamin H.
Mendiratta V K
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