Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor
Patent
1994-09-15
1995-04-04
Stoll, William E.
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
273148A, 434348, A63F 110
Patent
active
054030145
ABSTRACT:
A game having a card viewing device played by a plurality of players or teams of players. The game provides a plurality of multi-dimensional challenges that test player knowledge and reasoning, a player responding to a challenge in a pre-determined length of time. The game provides a card viewing device, a plurality of category game cards, a plurality of acronym game cards, at least one die, a timing device, a plurality of score indicating devices of varying color or shape where each color or shape corresponds to a challenge category and a plurality of score indicating holding devices. An initiating player is determined by the roll of at least one die. The die is rolled again by the initiating player to determine the nature of the challenge. The challenge may be to guess a question, guess an answer or plurality of answers, or the player's may choose the challenge depending on the die roll. Also a player may lose his or her turn depending on the die roll. Category game cards and acronym game cards provide the challenge information. The game cards are viewed in a new and novel card viewing device which has a plurality of movable elongated shielding members covering a transparent window member. The game cards are inserted into the card viewing device and the appropriate elongated shielding member is opened to reveal the challenge information on the game card which can be seen through the transparent window member. A player who successfully meets a challenge earns a score indicating means of the appropriate color or shape which is placed in the player's score indicator holding device. The first player to earn two score indicators means for each challenge category is declared the winner. Also disclosed is a novel method of playing the game.
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Anema Dale A.
Anema Roxane J.
Capraro Michael A.
Stoll William E.
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