Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Word – sentence – or equation forming
Patent
1978-09-05
1982-12-28
Skogquist, Harland S.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Word, sentence, or equation forming
A63F 300
Patent
active
043658130
ABSTRACT:
A word game including a plurality of playing pieces each having either a letter of the alphabet and a value indicator thereon or being universally useful as any letter of the alphabet, a ratio of lettered to universally useful pieces being at least about 10 to 1. A playing surface having a plurality of contiguous playing piece accepting playing spaces thereon in linear array. A device for generating a number by chance from a selected set of numbers to multiply the sum of the value indicators of the playing pieces on the playing surface to obtain a product after a player takes his turn. A plurality of value markers or the like to be paid to the player in an amount determined by the product developed on his turn. Also, a method of playing the word game utilizing the aforementioned structures.
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"Ghost", p. 272 of Reader's Digest Book of 1000 Family Games, Jun. 1973.
"Ghosts", p. 254 of the Way to Play by Diagram Group, Mar. 1976.
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