Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Word – sentence – or equation forming
Patent
1995-03-23
1995-12-26
Pierce, William M.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Word, sentence, or equation forming
273299, A63F 300
Patent
active
054780870
ABSTRACT:
A mathematical board game including a game board bearing a rectangular grid defining a plurality of ranks and files. Additionally, the game board includes a scoring apparatus composed of two groups of labeled scoring bins, one group for each playing team, for the purpose of recording the score as the game is played. The game board also includes a sum/point tabulation table which provides a cross reference, relating sums with scoring points awarded for each sum. A plurality of scoring `stones` are provided for each player. Upon scoring, the scoring player places a single stone in his labeled scoring bin corresponding to the number of points scored. A plurality of tiles are also provided for each player, each tile being marked with a symbol representing one of the numbers in the range [1, 2, 3, . . . , N.times.M] for placing on the board, where N is the number of ranks and M is the number of files. The players alternately select one tile at a time and place it at any playing position on the rectangular grid in an attempt to provide rank, file, or diagonally contiguous combinations which provide a particular type of sum. The desired sums may be only odd number sums, or the desired sums may be only even sums. Alternatively, the desired objective for one player may be even number sums and for the other player odd number sums.
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From Harriet Griffin's Text Elementary Theory of Numbers, pp. 193-194.
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