Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1983-08-04
1984-04-17
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
A63F 300
Patent
active
044430116
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to a game which can be played by two opposing parties utilizing a rectangularly shaped game board laid out to resemble the characteristics of a football field and marked off in evenly measured squares such that specific positions on the game board are specificallydefined, each player having the utilization of eleven (11) separate and distinct player pieces each having their own specific functional characteristics equatable to the eleven positions utilized by a football team, each opposing party having its opportunity to play offense as well as defense similar to that which exists during a football game, the movements of the respective player pieces being pursuant to and related to the rolling of dice. The players in turn roll a first die and move their pieces accordingly. The next turn each player rolls two dice, the next turn three dice and finally each player rolls four dice per turn until the current player is finished. The game incorporating all of the various aspects of the game of football, the overall object of the game being to score points as applicable to the game of football but in accordance with the rules and characteristics of the game.
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John Scarne, Scarne's Encyclopedia of Games, Chapter 24, "Dice", pp. 454-497, .COPYRGT.1973.
Brown Scott L.
Pinkham Richard C.
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