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US 2018/0043242 A1Published application
Method of Playing a Board Game
OwnerBrent Vincentinventor
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Abstract
The game is played by matching color and/or shape of adjacent game board pieces played within the spaces on a game board. Placement of a game piece on one of the game play affecting spaces can provide a player of that piece with one or more game play affecting actions. Similarly, placing a game piece in a manner that creates one or more specified game piece arrangements can provide a player of that piece with one or more game play affecting actions. A player can acquire and play a special affect game board piece that allows replacement of one or more previously played game board pieces.
Claims9
A method of playing a board game, comprising the steps of:
- placing a randomly selected one of a plurality of standard game board pieces within a designated one of a plurality of game piece spaces of a game board;
- providing a designated quantity of randomly selected game board pieces to each one of a plurality of players, wherein the designated quantity of randomly selected game board pieces are provided from a collection of game board pieces each having a respective set of game piece distinguishers, wherein the respective set of game piece distinguishers of each one of the standard game board pieces of each of the sets thereof is unique thereto and;
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- in a round of play starting with a first one of the players and proceeding in a designated order to each other one of the players, each one of the players taking a turn at attempting to place one of the game board pieces thereof within an unoccupied one of the game piece spaces immediately adjacent one or more of the game piece spaces already occupied by a previously-placed game board piece, wherein allowed placement of the game board piece attempting to be placed requires at least one of the respective set of game piece distinguishers thereof to match at least one of the respective set of game piece distinguishers of all previously-placed game board piece already occupying the immediately adjacent one or more of the game piece spaces.
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