Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Word – sentence – or equation forming
Patent
1995-10-30
1997-02-18
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Word, sentence, or equation forming
273299, 273240, A63F 300
Patent
active
056035012
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides for a game system having a generally rectangularly shaped board and a plurality of cards. The board is imprinted with indicia indicating addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The board is also imprinted with indicia indicating a first playing area, a second playing area, a third playing area, a fourth playing area, fifth playing area, a sixth playing area, a seventh playing area, and an eighth playing area. The cards are inscribed with an integer n, where n is an integer from 0 to 12. The cards are also inscribed with a mathematical symbol of +, -, .times., and .div.. In another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for playing a mathematical board game. The method involves providing a board as described above with at least one erasable means for recording a score, and cards as described above. The plurality of cards are shuffled to form a deck. A first player and a second are provided each with a predetermined number cards out of the deck. The first player places two cards with the same mathematical symbol on the board and calculates a first score according to the integers on the two cards and the mathematical function required by the symbol indicated on the two cards. The first player records the first score on the at least one erasable means for recording a score, and draws two replacement cards from the deck. The object of the game is to reach a predetermined score. If a player's score is over the predetermined limit, the player must figure a way to get a negative score to reduce his score to the correct number.
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Blau Stephen L.
Layno Benjamin H.
Seal Cynthia G.
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