Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Game piece
Patent
1990-10-31
1991-10-08
Brown, Theatrice
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Game piece
A63F 900
Patent
active
050547895
ABSTRACT:
A matching board game allows younger pre-literate or illiterate players to successfully play and score the game, while also providing an enjoyable method of learning the alphabet and basic number system. The game consists of a game board having thirty six spaces equal to the characters in the English alphabet and the numbers one through ten, corresponding matching blocks, and matching playing tiles. The game is played by drawing a tile and matching the alphanumeric character on the tile to the character on a block and withdrawing that block from its space on the board. The player with the highest stack of blocks when all blocks have been removed from the board is the winner. Alternatively, the rows of spaces of the board, corresponding blocks and tiles may be colored with the colors of the rainbow, permitting other variations in which the playing tiles and blocks may be matched according to color or the goal is to secure all the blocks of one color of at least one block of each color. Other versions allow blocks to be taken from the stacks of opponents if those blocks are not on the board, or the winner may be determined by the player having the highest stack of blocks at the end of a given time period.
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Brown Theatrice
Litman Richard C.
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