Game with simulated game piece
AssigneeBrunton & Brunton Pty. Ltd.
InventorRobert E. Brunton
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Abstract
A game in which players can engage in a simulated contest such as a sail boat race, a glider race or a snow buggy race, and having a set of cards layable side by side to define a course and simulated vehicles consistent with the type of race. The vehicles are moveable over the course in accordance with the particular rules of the race and the cards have markings thereon which indicate "conditions" that are likely to exist in the particular type of race.
Claims21
A simulated game piece defining a participant for use in a game, said simulated game piece being a simulated glide which is attached to an endless loop which runs about two end rollers one positioned above the other and supported from a support member engagable on and movable over a horizontal surface, a rotatable member being provided coupled to the lower of said rollers to frictionally engage the said surface when the support member is displaced thereover to rotate the rotatable member and drive said lower end roller for driving said loop to cause vertical movement of the said simulated glider.
A game in the form of a simulated contest, said game comprising a set of cards in the form of sheets, each sheet being adapted to be laid side by side to define an area of the course of the contest, each sheet having means to determine its position relative to the adjacent side of an adjoining sheet and having means to indicate a simulated "going" or condition of the course over the sheet, and a plurality of simulated vehicles which constitute the participants in the contest, each vehicle having means to align itself with the course of the contest and indicator means to indicate its movement along the course of the contest without reference to the contest course, said indicator means of each said vehicle comprises a movable member carried by the respective said vehicle and arranged to be driven by contact of the respective said vehicle on the upper surface of a said sheet, said movable member having markings which indicate the degree of movement of the respective said vehicle.
A game in the form of a simulated contest comprising a simulated course over which the race is to be held, said course having means to indicate variations in the "going" of the course and a plurality of simulated race participants, each participant being arranged to be displaceable around the course subject to the "going", each participant having means operable to move an indicator portion thereof in the direction normal to the course in response to movement of the participant thereacross, each said indicator portion being in the form of a simulated glider coupled to an endless loop which extends about end rollers one positioned above the other and carried by a support portion of the respective participant, one said end roller of each participant being arranged to be driven by a friction roller which engages the upper surface of the said course during movement of that participant thereacross in a forward direction whereby to drive said endless loop of that participant such that said simulated glider of that participant is moved downwardly in proportion to the said movement across said surface by virtue of consequent downward movement of an upright run of the said loop on which that simulated glider is located.
A game apparatus for playing a simulated contest comprising a set of cards in the form of sheets, each sheet being adapted to be laid side-by-side to form a simulated course of the contest in which the sides of the sheets are provided with elements of inter-engaging male and female means, the elements at each side being arranged so that a said sheet can only be positioned in one position adjacent the side of an adjoining sheet with said elements at the then adjacent sides of the joining sheets inter-engaged, said sheets having means to indicate variations in the "going" of the course, and a plurality of simulated race participants, each participant being arranged to be displaceable around the course subject to the "going", each participant having means to measure its displacement along the course without reference to the course.
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