Question and answer game
OwnerGaston Bigorreinventor
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Abstract
A question and answer game comprising a plurality N of normally open electrical contact devices distributed on a board, each device having an identifying reference. An indicator device is controlled by an electrical system which interconnects in a predetermined manner at least some of the N contact devices in order to establish n different combinations each comprising at least p series connected contact devices (p being greater than two) the closure of which causes the actuation of the indicator device. A plurality of questionnaires are also provided which have coded answers which each correspond to one of the aforesaid combinations, and removable connection means may be used to select the answer by closing the contact devices whose references correspond to the answers supplied to the said questionnaires.
Claims13
In an educational game, comprising:
- a signalling device having two terminals and being operated when a conducting path connects said two terminals,
- a plurality of electrically conducting lines connected across said two terminals, and being interrupted at cut-off regions thereof, said cut-off regions being related to respective statements of the educational game, a group of cut-off regions which are in series on the same conducting line defining a correct group of statements, and
- contacting means adapted to be selectively brought into contact with any one of said cut-off regions so as to establish an electrical path thereacross, thereby constituting the selection of the statement associated with the corresponding cut-off region,
- the improvement being said electrically conducting lines having:
- a first end portion comprising at least two first cut-off regions, one side of which is connected in common to one of said terminals, and the other sides of which define a first group of at least two central nodes, respectively;
- a second end portion comprising at least two second cut-off regions, one side of which is connected in common to the other of said terminals, and the other sides of which define a second group of at least two central nodes, respectively;
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- intermediate cut-off regions being interconnected between themselves and with the central nodes of the said first and second groups thereof,
- the interconnection being such that no central node of the first group be directly connected to a central node of the second group, and that there is at least one path via intermediate cut-off regions between two central nodes belonging to the same one of said first and second groups thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.