Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Alignment games
Patent
1978-01-23
1980-04-08
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Alignment games
273148R, 273288, A63F 300
Patent
active
041969057
ABSTRACT:
A game involving the placing of checkers on a game board made up of 20 vertical columns and 20 horizontal files of squares in an attempt to align six or more checkers belonging to one team horizontally, vertically or diagonally is played by two opposing teams of two players per team. Each row of squares running diagonally in one direction is colored entirely in one of three separate colors. The squares making up the longests diagonal row appear in a neutral color, the squares in the next adjacent contiguous diagonal row on one side are colored pink and the squares on the next adjacent contiguous diagonal row on the other side of the neutral row are colored blue. The colors repeat and no two contiguous diagonal rows are the same color. Each team has 72 checkers colored either black or white to represent that team. Each checker has a spot on one side colored pink and a spot on the other side colored blue. Each player puts one checker on the board in turn. One of the players of each team places his checkers on the board with the pink spot uppermost while the other player must place his checkers with the blue spot uppermost. Pink spotted checkers cannot be placed on blue squares and blue spotted checkers cannot be placed on pink squares. Play proceeds in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction around the table until a player scores by placing the sixth or higher numbered checker in a straight line, at which time the direction of play reverses, and this is indicated by changing the position of a novel direction indicator. When a player scores, a counter indicating that score is placed on top of the scoring checker.
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