US 4,307,886 AGranted

Amalgamated design game

OwnerKenneth E. Kemperinventor

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Abstract

A game includes a plurality of cubical blocks, six distinct but interrelated designs, each of which is divided into the same number of square pieces as the number of blocks in the game. A piece from the same comparable location in each design is affixed to a separate side of a common cubical block. The designs are made and arranged in such a manner that the pieces from comparable locations of the different designs can be interchanged with each other in a variety of combinations to produce amalgamated designs comprised of pieces of several of the individual composite designs. The amalgamable designs are made by starting with one complete design, separating and isolating major elements of the design, selecting a number less than all of the major elements, superimposing them on one another for the base of a new design, and completing the new design by filling in new elements and details not appearing in the first design.

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Dependent claims

Game apparatus comprising:

a plurality composite designs, each said design having a plurality of polyhedronal blocks of substantially equal size and shape, each block having a corresponding number of faces with intersecting edges between adjacent said faces, each face of which has an artistic design thereon forming a component part of one of said composite designs, at least certain design characteristics of each composite design traversing adjacent blocks at the adjoining intersecting edges between said adjacent blocks, each face of a block having a design characteristic at least at one of its intersecting edges corresponding to a design characteristic on an intersecting edge of a face of another comparably located block of at least one other of said designs so as to be interchangeable with each other in the respective designs on said respective sides without a discontinuity of design between intersecting edges of adjacent blocks, and said comparably located blocks having matching intersecting edges with different design characteristics than each other in the interior portions of their respective faces a spaced distance inwardly from their respective edges, and all blocks at each comparable location being marked with a common designation for indicating the proper location of each block.

In a game apparatus, the improvement comprising:

a plurality of cubical blocks, each of which has a first side, second side, third side, fourth side, fifth side, and sixth side, the sides of each of said blocks having thereon a proportionate square piece of a composite artistic design which is complete when all the blocks are positioned together in side-by-side relationship in proper orientation to each other with a selected side of each in a common plane such that the characteristic lines, forms, and colors of the first design run continuously in a non-disjointed manner from each block to adjacent blocks, each of said first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth artistic designs having similar characteristics to at least two other of the designs in a manner such that each square side of each design has at least one edge at which the portion of design at said one edge matches in lines, forms, and colors the portion of design at one edge of a side of an adjacent block and at least one other edge at which the portion of design at said other edge on said side substantially matches in lines, forms, and colors the portion of design at the corresponding other edge of the piece of comparable location in at least one other of the designs, at least one of which designs is different than at least one of said other designs having a portion substantially matching the design portion at said one edge.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.