Magnetic game set for randomizable play
OwnerJohnny H Douglas, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A game set for a randomizable table game includes a game board and a plurality of game pieces. The game board holds a number of magnetic tiles, each said tile containing a predetermined number of coin magnets with the coin magnets serving as play spaces on the game board. The game pieces each include a transparent hollow body that has opposite generally flat faces and can be set onto a selected magnet or space on the game board. A coin magnet in the transparent hollow body can invert or be held in its original position depending on whether the polarities of the playing piece and tile magnets match. Players may attempt to achieve a row of three game pieces with indicia on the magnets being all X or all O.
Claims10
A game set comprising
- a game board and a plurality of game pieces to be placed at a player's discretion upon spaces defined on the game board, wherein
- said game board includes a plurality of re-arrangeable magnetic tiles, each said tile containing a predetermined number of coin magnets held in place in predetermined positions on the respective tile, said coin magnets each having one N pole face and an opposite S pole face;
- said coin magnets serving also to define said spaces for the game pieces on the game board, and
- a boundary on the game board defining a fenced-in area dimensioned to be filed with a predetermined number of said tiles, such that the coin magnets in said tiles form a two-dimensional array in the fenced-in area;
- said game pieces each include a transparent hollow body that has one or more flat faces thereon and such that the transparent hollow body is adapted to be placed with either or any of said flat faces against an available one of said spaces on said game board, and a coin magnet contained therewithin, the respective coin magnets within the transparent hollow bodies of the game pieces each having one N pole face and an opposite S pole face;
- said transparent open body having sufficient interior space to provide freedom of movement for the coin magnet within the respective hollow body and to permit said magnet to be inverted by magnetic action, said coin magnet having opposite faces and being configured such that when one of said game pieces is placed on the board at a position of one of the coin magnets in a respective tile, the coin magnet within the game piece will stay in position if the board's magnet at that location is one given polarity, but will flip to an inverted position if the board's magnet is the other magnetic polarity, and wherein the coin magnet in the game piece will automatically flip or not, as need be, so that there are respective N and S poles facing each other, and wherein each said coin magnet in its respective transparent hollow body has distinctive indicia on each said face and visually distinctive one from the other.
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