Amusement devices: games – Chance devices – Electric or magnetic
Patent
1976-05-24
1977-10-11
Lowe, Delbert B.
Amusement devices: games
Chance devices
Electric or magnetic
273134C, 273134D, 273148A, A63F 300
Patent
active
040531546
ABSTRACT:
A board game apparatus wherein each player is a detective who, through a multitude of clues, attempts to find the murderer through a process of elimination of potential suspects; the game including a playing board having playing paths representing streets surrounding the periphery thereof, a multitude of squares disposed along such playing paths representative of suspects' homes with each home having three distinctive leads marked on the playing space therewith; three decks of cards representing Weapon, Clue and Motive which are placed face down in appropriate locations on three of the corners of the game board; a dead body marker to be placed on the home space having the victim's name thereon with the detective players having to determine who killed the victim; a die for determining the number of spaces to be moved by each player on each turn; tokens or markers for marking a player's position on the game board; and a plurality of detective Notebook Sheets for use in recording the names of the persons visited by the detective in determining those which are suspect and for eventually determining by deductive reasoning the name of the killer; the winner of the game being the first to successfully determine the name of the killer or, alternatively, being the last player left on the board after all players have unsuccessfully attempted to name the killer, doing so with an incorrect name.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3942800 (1976-03-01), Holbrook
patent: 3955818 (1976-05-01), Hawke
patent: 3977680 (1976-08-01), Lavine
Gordon Marden S.
Lowe Delbert B.
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