Board game
AssigneeEpoch Company, Ltd.
InventorTeruo Matsumoto
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Abstract
A board game combining both skill and chance including a plurality of playing pieces provided with rotatably mounted carriages having surfaces thereof provided with multiple indicia indicating the number of moves that the playing pieces are permitted to make and magnets, a playing surface divided into a plurality of contiguous areas on which the playing pieces are positioned and along which the playing pieces move, and a plurality of magnets positioned below the playing surface and arranged in a pre-determined pattern to attract the magnets of the playing pieces to rotate the carriages and the indicia different degrees as the playing pieces are moved from one area to another so as to continuously change the number of moves that the same playing pieces may make depending on their positions on the playing surface.
Claims11
A board game, comprising a plurality of playing pieces each provided with a rotatably mounted carriage having a surface provided with multiple indicia indicating the number of moves the playing piece may make and a magnet, a playing surface provided with a plurality of areas on which said playing pieces are positioned and along which said playing pieces are moved, and magnet means positioned below said playing surface and arranged in a pattern to attract said magnets of said playing pieces to rotate said carriages and said indicia thereof as said playing pieces are moved through different of said areas.
In a board game provided with a playing surface having a plurality of contiguous areas along which pieces of the players are moved in a pre-determined manner, the improvement comprising a plurality of first magnets positioned below said playing surface at the intersections of selected of said areas and rotatably mounted carriages provided in said pieces having second magnets attracted by said first magnets to rotate said carriages and multiple indicia indicative of the number of moves the playing pieces may make, which indicia are selectively viewable through openings provided in said pieces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.