US 4,190,256 AGranted

Path forming game

OwnerThomas J. Rudden, Jr.inventor

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Abstract

A game apparatus which may be played by two or more players, having playing pieces in the shape of equilateral hexagons for each player and a pre-marked game board having a matrix of contiguous spaces disposed thereon in the shape of equilateral hexagons which accommodate the playing pieces. At least two different types of playing pieces (and as many as three types) may be provided, i.e. offensive pieces and defensive pieces, and optionally hybrid pieces known as offensive-defensive pieces. The offensive playing pieces are of a variety of different types all of which provide a distinctive, continuous path from one peripheral edge of the piece to at least one other peripheral edge. The defensive pieces are provided in a variety of types all of which provide a distinctive, non-continuous path. Offensive-defensive pieces have characteristics of both offensive and defensive playing pieces. The object of the game is for each player, or team of players, to form a continuous, distinctive path from designated starting spaces to designated ending spaces.

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Dependent claims

A game apparatus for two or more players comprising a game board, a variety of different types of offensive playing pieces and defensive playing pieces all in the shape of equilateral hexagons in which:

A. said game board is provided with a matrix of contiguous hexagonally-shaped spaces of about the same size and shape as said offensive and said defensive playing pieces;
B. said offensive pieces are provided for each player in a set including a variety of different types of pieces for each player, each offensive piece being characterized by the presence of at least one path therethrough defined by a distinctively identified interior segment and two or more distinctively identified peripheral segments which adjoin the edge of the piece and the interior segment;
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C. said defensive pieces are of about the same exterior dimensions as said offensive pieces but are further characterized by the absence of any path-defining, distinctively identified interior segments, although said defensive pieces may include one or more distinctively identified peripheral segments which adjoin the edges of the piece and said interior segment.

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