Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Alignment games
Patent
1981-10-02
1984-06-26
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Alignment games
A63F 300
Patent
active
044562616
ABSTRACT:
A game board device includes a game board having playing spaces arranged in a regular rectangular array of rows and columns, playing pieces divided into three sets or groups, each set or group of which is of a characteristic distinguishable from the other, the number of playing pieces of one of the sets, a "neutral" set, being equal to the number of playing spaces, while the number of playing pieces of each of the other sets, the "assigned" sets, are equal to each other and, respectively, to one-half the number of playing spaces. The distinguishable characteristics may be different colors, or different shapes although the characteristics lend themselves to many variations including being representative of themes to make the game more appealable to players of certain age groups. In the method, the playing pieces are distributed equally to the players and a characteristic of one of the equal number sets assigned to each player with the object of the game being to have three or four of the assigned characteristics in a linear alignment, whether horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. However, the assigned characteristic playing pieces cannot be placed in position on a playing space until placed on top of a playing piece of the neutral characteristic previously placed on that space. Each player places either a neutral characteristic playing piece or an assigned characteristic playing piece for every move. Once a piece is on the board it remains.
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Oechsle Anton O.
Reens Louis H.
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