Rotatable board game with magnetically affected playing pieces
OwnerRobert L. Brassinventor
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Abstract
A children's game is provided in which plastic animals, such as turtles, are used as playing pieces and race along the track of a game board, advancing a given number of spaces on the basis of the spinning of a dial. The game board, however, is round and rotatable and has a base with randomly positioned magnets under the spaces on the board. The playing pieces also include magnets which are affected when they are on spaces over the random magnets. In particular, the playing piece is designed so that the animal's head drops when over a magnet, so it "falls asleep." The animal can then be "awakened" by rotating the board the equivalent of one space and so removing it from the magnet. In doing so, however, another player's piece may be moved over a magnet and similarly "fall asleep".
Claims11
A board game including
- a base,
- a rotatable board pivotally supported upon said base, said board including at least one circular track thereon centered about said pivot, said track including equidistant stopping positions thereon,
- said base including a plurality of magnets thereon mounted beneath said rotatable board and beneath said circular track said magnets being positioned from one another in multiples of the spacing of said equidistant stopping positions,
- magnetically-sensitive playing pieces for movement from one stopping position to another along said track, said playing pieces having means thereon to indicate when they are in positions above one of said magnets, and
- means to rotate said board about said pivot by a distance equal to the distance between said stopping positions
- whereby as said playing pieces are moved from position to position along said track, they are periodically affected by said magnets and so indicate.
A board game usable for racing playing pieces along spaces on tracks for distances determined by a chance means and including means for interrupting movement of said pieces by chance, including
- a base,
- a circular, rotatable game board pivotally mounted on said base, said board including a plurality of concentric circular racing tracks centered on said pivotal mounting, said tracks having an equal number of playing spaces thereon,
- said spaces in each said track being separated from one another by an equal arcuate distance,
- means for rotating said board an amount equal to said arcuate distance
- hidden magnets on said base under said tracks, and
- playing pieces for racing on said tracks having indicating means thereon to show when they are above one of said hidden magnets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.