US 4,533,145 AGranted

Liquid absorbing playing piece

OwnerBradley B. Liebmaninventor

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Abstract

A playing piece for war game constructed of tissue like materials, which can simulate realistically the damage caused by warfare. Using extremely inexpensive materials, the war game playing pieces may be easily built and then destroyed by the players. The war game playing piece may, for example simulate a ship, in which each of the layers, from the hull, through armored layers, right through to the hull may be simulated by layers of tissue of varying colors. When water shot, for example, by a water pistol in incident upon the simulated ship the water will cause part of the playing piece to become a soggy wad. This material may be pinched away revealing the extent of damage by examination of the colors so revealed. Enumerable games may be constructed around this basic playing piece and various ships, airplanes and vehicles and fixed structures may be simulated in a similar manner.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A playing piece for war game, comprising in combination:

(a) an inner core of permeable absorptive sheet material comprising a longitudinally rolled flattened ellipse wherein said inner core forms a hull structure of said playing piece in a war game;
(b) at least one intermediate layer of permeable absorptive sheet material rolled in layers perpendicular to the major axis of said inner core wherein said intermediate layer forms at least one layer of armor of said playing piece in a war game;
(c) an outer layer of permeable absorptive sheet material rolled in layers perpendicular to the major axis of said inner core wherein said outer layer forms an outer shell of said playing piece in a war game;
(d) means for varying the absorptive capacity of each of said inner core, intermediate and outer layers;
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(e) means for visually identifying the extent to which a liquid incident upon said playing piece in said war game has penetrated said playing piece, thereby providing scoring data.

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