Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1987-09-28
1989-04-04
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273281, 273284, A63F 300
Patent
active
048179574
ABSTRACT:
A game played on a playing board having a plurality of intersecting lateral and longitudinal grooves defining a grid of squares. A plurality of laterally and longitudinally oriented movable bars on the grid define a maze therewith. The movable bars are operatively connected to the grooves and respectively move laterally and longitudinally along the grooves. The movement of the bars changes the maze paths. Each bar has a width of one square and a length of three squares of the grid. The game apparatus also includes a plurality of playing pieces, objects for indicating random numbers of permissible movements of the playing pieces and the bars, and a surrounding frame to definitize the playing area and to retain the bars. Normally, an even number of players, such as two, attempt to move their playing pieces from opposite ends across the grid, end to end, the randomizing objects indicating the permissible number of squares across which the playing pieces can be moved and which laterally and/or longitudinally oriented bars can be shifted on the grid. The bars preferably include mechanical interfaces with the grooves of the grid which assure a stable position exactly covering a line of three adjacent squares.
REFERENCES:
patent: 729522 (1903-06-01), Anderson
patent: 1518178 (1924-12-01), Chefko
patent: 1700016 (1929-01-01), Belanger
Brown Boniard I.
Layno Benjamin
Pinkham Richard C.
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