Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Take-aparts and put-togethers
Patent
1979-08-21
1981-01-06
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Take-aparts and put-togethers
434327, 434333, A63F 910, G09B 106
Patent
active
042432243
ABSTRACT:
A game or puzzle for pre-school children which exploits both the olfactory and visual senses. The game is formed by a playing board having printed thereon at distinct positions pictures of different odoriferous objects such as fruits having characteristic smells. Superimposed on each pictured object is an identifier constituted by a major circle and a minor circle concentric therewith, the circles being radially divided into colored segments. Each identifier has a distinctive color pattern that differs from every other identifier. The periphery of the minor circle is scored to define a punchout disc, the surface of which is coated with a myriad of minute, rupturable capsules containing an odor-producing substance whose smell is the characteristic odor of the related object. The discs are removed from the playing board to create sockets therein, each of which is surrounded by a major circle ring whose color pattern matches that of the removed disc. The group of discs serve as the play elements of the game, the player being required to select a play element and to scratch and smell its surface. He then places the element in the ring socket of the pictured object which he believes gives off the same odor. The correctness of his choice is confirmed if there is a match between the color pattern of the element and that of the socket ring.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1972206 (1934-09-01), Thomay
patent: 3570139 (1971-03-01), Ladd et al.
patent: 3627325 (1971-12-01), Breslow
Playthings Magazine, Dec. 1971, p. 43.
Ebert Michael
Oechsle Anton O.
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