Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor
Patent
1987-08-10
1989-05-30
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
A63F 300
Patent
active
048343889
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a board game which includes eighty one playing pieces, a game board and six view blockers. The game board is marked with a plurality of main fields and a plurality of extra fields. Each playing piece is painted with one of nine different colors and carries one of nine different digits 1 to 9. Each player has a view blocker for blocking the other players' view of his collection of playing pieces. The main fields are in use when only two players are playing and are subdivided into identical spaces each sized to receive a playing piece. Three of the main fields have three spaces each. Six of the main fields have four spaces each. Four of the main fields have five spaces each. Four of the main fields have six spaces each. One of the main fields has seven spaces. One of the main fields has eight spaces. One of the main fields has nine spaces. One of the main fields is marked with an "X" and is called "penalty box". The extra fields are in use when more than two players are playing and are subdivided into identical spaces each sized to receive a playing piece. Two of the extra fields have three spaces each. One of the extra fields has four spaces. In the center of the main fields there is a container for storing the playing pieces.
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patent: 3850434 (1974-11-01), Ockenfels
patent: 4227698 (1980-10-01), Ishizuki
patent: 4390183 (1983-06-01), Gedon
Gibson, Hoyle's Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games, 11-1980, pp. 291-295.
Dor-el David
Lipkin Margalit
Johansen W. Edward
Layno Benjamin
Pinkham Richard C.
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