Board game with time indicator means

Abstract

Board structure and apparatus is provided for a game in which the placement on the board of any playing piece must be at a site contiguous to the site of the most recently previously played piece. Plays must be made within a time limit which may be adjusted to the levels of skill of the game participants. Provision is made to positively index playing pieces at the sites selected for play. In one preferred version, each site has mounted thereunder an illuminating lamp and circuitry intended to illuminate such lamp for the specified time limit when a playing piece is played at that site. Translucent board structure and playing pieces may be provided, such that illumination of the site serves to illuminate the playing piece as well in such a version. Thus, play of a piece at any site automatically illuminates that site for the chosen time limit, and any subsequent play must be made before the illumination at that site is extinguished.

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