US 2016/0158637 A1 · GAME ASSEMBLIES WITH LAUNCHING GAME PIECES

Abstract

A game assembly for forming words with letters. Players take turns launching a chip onto a lettered tile on a game surface or into a receiving portion of tower, in which case the player may select a desired letter. The first player to spell out a word based on the letters corresponding to lettered tiles bearing chips and the player's letter selection, collects all of the chips corresponding to the lettered tiles used to form the word. The last player with all of the chips wins the game. The game assembly includes chips, chip launchers, a game surface, and a tower placed on the game surface. The tower comprises receiving and discharging portions. The receiving portion comprises a cavity formed within the tower and the discharging portion comprises a sliding surface surrounding the cavity and angled downwardly toward the game surface to discharge a chip onto the game surface.

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Dependent claims

A game assembly comprising:

a plurality of game pieces;
a game surface comprising a plurality of demarcated target areas each comprising an identifying indicium;
a randomizer comprising a randomizer receiving portion and a randomizer discharging portion, the randomizer discharging portion being elevated above the game surface, wherein the randomizer discharging portion is disposed peripherally around the randomizer receiving portion and wherein the randomizer discharging portion comprises a sliding surface angled downwardly from the randomizer receiving portion toward the game surface;
a plurality of guides coupled to the sliding surface, the plurality of guides being spaced apart at a distance that is greater than a largest width of each one of the plurality of game pieces;
and
a game piece launcher operable to launch one of the plurality of game pieces to initially land on one of the game surface, the randomizer receiving portion or the randomizer discharging portion;
wherein when one of the plurality of game pieces initially lands on the randomizer discharging portion, the game piece is discharged from the randomizer and onto the game surface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Game assemblies with launching game pieces

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Game assemblies with launching game pieces

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