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US 2014/0197596 A1Published application
Device and method for magnetic element stacking game
AssigneePlasmart Co. Ltd.
InventorTracey McIlwaine
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a multi-player magnetic element stacking game played on one or more shafts attached to a base and exploiting the phenomena of magnetic attraction or repulsion.
Claims21
A game for one or more players comprising:
- a plurality of shafts;
- a plurality of magnetized playing pieces, wherein the playing pieces have faces of opposite magnetic polarity and a channel through the pieces dimensioned to to receive one of the shafts;
- wherein when two or more playing pieces are placed on a shaft by disposing the shaft in the channel and permitting the pieces to slide downwardly on the shaft, one or more of the pieces will attract or repel one or more of the other pieces in accordance with the magnetic polarity of the pieces.
A method of game play for multiple players comprising the steps of
- (a) providing each player with a shaft;
- (b) providing a plurality of unplayed magnetized playing pieces, wherein the playing pieces have faces of opposite magnetic polarity and a channel through the pieces dimensioned to to receive one of the shafts;
- (c) each player (i) selecting one unplayed playing piece;
- (ii) dropping it onto her shaft;
- and (iii) either removing the dropped playing piece from the shaft or leaving the dropped playing piece on the shaft depending on whether the dropped playing piece is magnetically attracted to or repelled from a previously dropped playing piece in accordance with a predefined rule.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.