Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1981-09-14
1983-08-09
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
A63F 300
Patent
active
043974678
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a competitive game of the type played with (a) a plurality of differentiated tokens at least one of which is played by each player in the game, (b) a game board having a closed path over which the tokens are moved during play, the closed path comprising a plurality of stations which are correlated with instructions affecting the standing of a player whose token lands on that station, (c) an aleatoric device for determining the number of stations moved by each token on each play, (d) a plurality of markers the accumulation of which by each player evidences his standing in the game, and (e) a plurality of instructional members separate from the stations which likewise are correlated with instructions affecting the standing of a player, these instructional members being related to the stations in that an instruction correlated with a first group of at least some of the stations refers a player whose token lands on one of that group of stations to the next in sequence of the instructional members. The game is characterized in that at least some of the instructions correlated with the first instructional member authorize a player who receives such instructions to gamble markers, the success or failure of the gamble being determined by an aleatoric device.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2976044 (1961-03-01), Corpening
patent: 3889954 (1975-06-01), Malisow
Brown Scott L.
Pinkham Richard C.
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