Amusement devices: games – Physical skill or ability – Game element capture or pick up using manual dexterity
Patent
1998-06-10
1999-11-09
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Physical skill or ability
Game element capture or pick up using manual dexterity
A63F 900
Patent
active
059799013
ABSTRACT:
A pick-up game includes a plurality of elongated strands each having an identical bead attached to one end. Attached to the other end of each strand is an animal shaped figure of a distinct color. Each strand and its attachments constitute a game piece. The object of the game, which is played by more than one player, is to choose a bead and withdraw the strand to which that bead is attached (from a pile formed from a plurality of game pieces) in the hope of pulling out a game piece that matches the game piece originally selected by each player at the beginning of the game. When a newly selected game piece is dissimilar to the game piece originally selected by the player, the newly selected game piece is returned to the pile taking care not to disturb the random order of the game pieces. The players continue to alternately withdraw game pieces from the pile until one player becomes the winner by being the first to successfully withdraw all the game pieces matching the originally selected game piece. The game is started by players randomly choosing game pieces, thereby assigning a different game piece set to each player.
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Grieb William H.
Tsung Frederick F.
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