Game apparatus
OwnerRichard H. Recard, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A game apparatus designed for use by two to four players and including a board essentially divided into hexagonal shaped cells and further including six pentagonal shaped cells as well as a symbol representing a star. The board is used in conjunction with game pieces or markers representing space stations, spacecraft of several different classes and planets revolving about the star. The players take turns moving their spacecraft pieces subject to specific variable constraints with regard to the simulated spacecraft velocity and direction. The markers representing the planets are moved with every turn of each player. If a player's spacecraft is moved to a cell adjacent to another player's spacecraft, one of the spacecraft is eliminated dependent upon the classes of the respective spacecraft and the roll of dice.
Claims12
A game apparatus for use by a plurality of players and comprising:
- a flat game board essentially divided into hexagonal shaped cells arranged around a central symbol representing a star and further including a plurality of pentagonal shaped cells located around said central symbol;
- a plurality of game markers representing three classes of spacecraft, each of said game markers having both two distinguishing colors and additional markings, wherein one color on each game marker represents the player to which it belongs and a second color on each game marker represents the class of the spacecraft it represents while the additional marking represents the spacecraft number;
- a plurality of additional game markers also representing an additional class of spacecraft, each of said additional game markers having only a single distinguishing color representing the player to which it belongs;
- a plurality of game markers representing space stations, each of said markers having a distinguishing color representing the player to which it belongs;
- a velocity marker means having numbers used to represent the simulated velocities of each spacecraft of the three classes of spacecraft and two distinguishing colors used to represent the respective completion or non-completion of a specified orbit of a specified spacecraft;
- a plurality of game markers, each of which represent a planet;
- a plurality of orbit game markers having both distinguishing colors and markings, each corresponding to a single respective game marker representing one spacecraft of one of the three classes of spacecraft;
- a plurality of score game markers which represent a completed orbit around the central star symbol by a spacecraft;
- a random function means for providing an integer from a range of integers with a predetermined frequency distribution;
- said players taking turns in moving their spacecraft game pieces from hexagon shaped cell to hexagon shaped cell with the number of cells traversed in each player's turn equal to the number specified by said velocity marker means;
- said players moving some of said planet game markers two hexagon cells with each turn so as to trace a circular path around said star.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.