Multi-player backgammon
OwnerRobert Melvin Thomas, Robert Edward Thomasinventors
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Abstract
Backgammon game board for the simultaneous play of four players. The game board is divided by transverse and longitudinal line to provide eight boards, each board including six points, said boards being symmetrically disposed about a central playing area. The central playing area contains selectively eight, 10 or 12 playing points through which each player must move his playing pieces from his two outer boards to his two inner boards. The eight boards contain 48 playing points which may be color coded in a manner corresponding to the color coding of the playing pieces so as to identify the flow of each player's playing pieces.
Claims16
A multi-player backgammon game board having the rectangular configuration of FIG. 1 of the drawings and having on its surface the eight board pattern and the central playing area shown in said FIG. 1.
A multi-player backgammon game board having the rectangular configuration of FIG. 1 of the drawings and having on its surface the eight board game pattern of FIG. 1 with the central playing area configuration shown in FIG. 3 of the drawings.
A multi-player backgammon game board having the rectangular configuration of FIG. 1 of the drawings and having on its surface the eight board game pattern of FIG. 1 with the central playing area configuration shown in FIG. 5 of the drawings.
A multi-player backgammon game board for the play of four-player backgammon games, said game board consisting of 48 playing points evenly distributed in eight boards symmetrically disposed around a central playing area containing an even number of playing points ranging from eight to 12 playing points through which each player must move his playing pieces from two of the surrounding playing boards to the remaining two of his playing boards.
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