Amusement devices: games – Miscellaneous
Patent
1990-12-03
1992-04-21
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Miscellaneous
273145C, 273146, A63F 900, A63F 904
Patent
active
051061031
ABSTRACT:
A board game providing a random letter selection tray holding a plurality of cubes, each cube displaying at least one letter, the plurality of cubes is shaken in the tray displacing the cubes randomly, whereupon after shaking ceases the letters fall into two columns divided into a plurality of rows. The game players must independently recognize known persons who correspond to the randomly selected initials read across the two columns by individual rows and mark down the persons on each players's game card. The game is timed and multiple players compete with the score based on the number of famous personage which each player can match to the randomly selected initial groupings. Alternate embodiments provide for balls to replace cubes, and cubes having a plurality of different letters, one letter on each face of each cube.
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