Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Salvo type
Patent
1977-05-09
1979-04-24
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Salvo type
273282, 273288, A63F 300
Patent
active
041508297
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a game apparatus comprising a game board having at least two playing areas. Each playing area includes a plurality of passageways with an object normally stationed adjacent one end of each passageway. A set of a plurality of various length locking tumblers are provided each player or team of players, and in the case of playing the game of the present invention each locking tumbler is placed in passageways to effectively "lock" each object adjacent a respective passageway. Without knowing the particular placement of the locking tumblers in the passageways about a particular area, a player then selects from a set of a plurality of various length keys and inserts the keys, one at a time, into the passageways with the object being to move a respective locking tumbler to where that tumbler protrudes from its passageway and engages the adjacent object and causes the same to move from a locked position to an unlocked position. The length of the keys and locking tumblers are selected such that the shorter the length of a particular key, the fewer locking tumblers of the locking tumbler set that particular key will unlock. Thus it is the object to unlock as many objects as possible making the most efficient use of the keys of a key set.
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