Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Alignment games
Patent
1979-06-29
1983-02-15
Skogquist, Harland S.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Alignment games
273269, A63F 300
Patent
active
043737323
ABSTRACT:
A travel game includes polyhedron-shaped blocks (12) (usually cubed) having indicia (29) on all but one side (28a-e) thereof representing scenes commonly viewed along routes of travel. Also included on each of these sides (28a-e) is a number which represents the improbability (and therefore difficulty) of viewing the respective scene represented by the indicia thereon, with the easier-to-view scenes having lower numbers, and the harder-to-view scenes having higher numbers. The game also includes a compartmented retainer board (10) having compartments (14) for supporting the blocks (12) in rows (16) and columns (18) while prominently displaying one side of each of the blocks to game players. The game players can easily reorient the blocks (12) within their respective row and column positions to display other sides.
The game is normally played by two people each having a retainer board (10) with a plurality of blocks (12) thereon, with the sides (28a-f) of all blocks supported by each retainer board displaying an agreed upon number pattern. As scenes represented by the indicia are observed by the players, they reorient the blocks to display other sides (and other indicia) until a predetermined block orientation goal is achieved or a preset time or distance limit is reached.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2628838 (1953-02-01), Smalley
patent: 2967714 (1961-01-01), Calabrese
patent: 3495700 (1970-02-01), Chandos
patent: 3987558 (1976-10-01), Tsukamoto
patent: 4158921 (1979-06-01), Stolpen
Travel Bingo Games, 1970 Regal Games Catalog, 3 pages
Spello Word Game, p. 130, Cleo Learning Aids Catalog, 1976.
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