US 4,018,445 AGranted

Educational puzzle game

OwnerJames A. Anania, Sr.inventor

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Abstract

An educational game for playing a game of skill and judgment, the game comprising, at least one game board divided into a plurality of rows and columns of four in number, a plurality of numbered tokens for placing at each of the sixteen spaces defined on the game board by the rows and columns, each of said game boards having a numerical solution, the solution being 38 as obtained by addition of the numbered tokens on the board after all spaces are filled, the addition being in any desired direction of any four of the tokens in abutting relationship or in squares. In playing the game, numerical tokens are selected and placed on the game board until all spaces on each player's board are filled, the object of the game being to obtain the correct solution indicated for that particular game. Optionally, random number selector means may be used to select the order of playing the numbered tokens.

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Dependent claims

An educational game comprising:

a. a game board, said game board being divided by rows and columns of four in number and divided into sixteen spaces, said game board being disposed with container means comprising a hinged cover which folds over and covers said game board contained in the bottom portion of said container;
b. said game board having indicated thereon a numerical solution of 38,
c. said sixteen spaces of said game board being sequentially numbered from one to sixteen and each of said spaces being adapted to receive numbered tokens thereon,
d. a total of sixteen numbered tokens, each of said tokens having affixed thereon a single number, said numbers being consecutive numbers from two to seventeen,
e. random selection means to select a numbered token,
f. means for causing said tokens to remain in the space selected on said game board;
wherein in playing the game, numbered tokens are selected by said random selection means and placed in each of said spaces of said game board in a manner whereby the numbers provide a numerical solution of 38 when the numbers are added in all 16 directions in each row, each column, each diagonal, or any four numbers in a square.

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