Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1990-04-11
1991-11-12
Layno, Benjamin
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273264, A63F 300
Patent
active
050642014
ABSTRACT:
A board game apparatus is provided wherein the players are challenged with an objective of advancing and arranging movable game pieces within certain designated areas on a game board without being captured by the opponent. The game apparatus comprises a game board having a playing surface consisting of a plurality of squares and boundary markings dividing the playing surface into a plurality of subset areas. A predetermined number of movable game pieces are positionable on designated starter squares and movable, in player turn, selected distances as defined by the subset areas in a first direction, a second direction or a diagonal direction to attain a first winning goal of capturing of a majority of the opponent's game pieces by coterminous moves to the same squares in any of the subset areas, or to attain second winning goal of being the first player to position the game pieces in an aligned first direction row, an aligned second direction row, or an aligned diagonal row in the center area of the game board.
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Burdick Glen M.
Layno Benjamin
McCarthy Bill D.
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