US 2003/0199293 A1 · Three dimensional interactive game and method for initiating and playing same

Abstract

The present invention consists of an improved three dimensional interactive computer game wherein the user may select either a regular or irregular three dimensional shape such as a cube, sphere, cylinder, pyramid or any other shape, and then select a plurality of discrete elements to fill the shape, whether regular or irregular, and then the user may select the number of discrete elements to fill the three dimensional game playing shape, and then a number of tokens or exploding mines are chosen and then randomly distributed throughout the three dimensional playing shape. The player can then initiate game play and choose a selected game form or cell shape to see if a mine or exploding token is contained therein which will automatically terminate the game play. If the player selects an element which does not contain an exploding mine or token, the selected cell or element is removed and all adjacent elements are shown with an integer value which corresponds directly to the number of adjacent elements or cells located in a specific pattern which contain exploding tokens or mines. The player at any time may flag elements which are suspected to contain mines or exploding tokens. The game ends when either a timer runs out, or all cells or discrete elements are marked as having exploding mines or tokens or have been removed from the playing field. The three dimensional shape may be rotated in any direction during game play and it can be split or blow apart along any axis selected by the user to facilitate game play.

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Dependent claims

A three dimensional interactive computer game comprising a CPU, a display for a CPU, a three dimensional form or shape boundary displayed on a playing field, a plurality of discrete three dimensional elements in the interior of the three dimensional form or shape boundary wherein the elements extend along a vertical axis, a horizontal axis and a depth axis, a plurality of tokens which are randomly placed within some, but not all of the three dimensional elements which, when chosen or selected by a game player or user, will end the game.

A method of playing an interactive game comprising the steps of:

providing a CPU or central processing unit for a game player and a game program;
the player initiating the game program and the game program providing a three dimensional playing field;
the game program generating a three dimensional shape or game playing form and generating a plurality of adjoining discrete elements or cells each having a three dimensional shape and placing the elements or cells within the boundary of the three dimensional shape and generating a plurality of tokens and then randomly distributing these tokens throughout the discrete elements or cells and then initiating play of the interactive the game;
the player then selecting a cell or discrete element to determine whether it contains a token;
the game program determining whether the discrete element or cell contains a token to end the game;
if the player did not select a discrete element or cell with a token, then the discrete element cell disappearing from the playing field;
the player then selecting another discrete element or cell if the game has not ended and the play continuing until all discrete elements or cells are removed from the playing field.

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