Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Word – sentence – or equation forming
Reexamination Certificate
1998-12-13
2001-05-01
Pierce, William M. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Word, sentence, or equation forming
C273S430000, C273S431000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06224057
ABSTRACT:
I. BACKGROUND AND FIELD OF THE INVENTION
There have been numerous board games developed and played through the ages, including such games as chess, checkers, Parcheesi and Monopoly. These games have been limited to the movement of playing pieces within a fixed playing framework controlled either by the rules of the game. Such a game is chess where the game is played on an 8×8 playing matrix, but each pieces can only move within this matrix based upon rules of movement assigned to each piece. A second type of game is where the playing field is a series of fixed locations on the game board, such as Monopoly. In Monopoly, the playing field is a set of locations located only along the periphery of the game board. Each playing piece is allowed to occupy any space on the board. The actual location is controlled only by the number of spaces that each piece advances along the periphery of the game board, from the start position. The number of spaces that the player advances is controlled by a random number generator such as the throw of dice.
There has also been developed a separate and distinct line games which are based upon words and letters of the English language. Generally, these games are based upon either forming words from a collection of letters, such as Scrabble or Boggle, or deducing a whole word or phrase when some portion of the letters making up the word or phrase are known, such the popular Wheel of Fortune. There has been no game developed which combines together these two popular game formats.
II. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The game is played by assigning a token or marker to each player and placing the marker on the start square of the game board. The game board consists of a series of squares located around the periphery of the board. Each square contains the name of a subject which corresponds to a series of questions cards pertaining to that subject. As the player advances his marker around the board based upon the number showing from the throw of a die. On each turn, a question card is taken from the stack of cards that correspond to the subject indicated on space on the game board on which the player landed. The question contained on that card is presented to the current player by one of the other persons playing the game. If the current player answers the question correctly, then that player has an additional 60 seconds to construct as many other words as possible using the letters that made up the correct answer. Each newly constructed word must contain at least 3 letters. The current player receives a fixed number of points for answering the question correctly and a fixed number of points for each valid newly constructed word that the player made.
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