Portable game with captive parts
AssigneeMarvin Glass & Associates
InventorsJohn V. Zaruba, Steven P. Hanson, Wayne A. Kuna
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Abstract
A game in which all of the pieces, while movable for play, are captured against removal and loss from the game. Player movable pieces are received for movement along slots extending through the thickness of a playing surface but are captured by upper and lower enlargements against removal. Discreet positional stops are provided along the slots by spaced apart depressions into which a mating truncated conical portion on the movable pieces fits. In one form, a captive rotatable disc cooperates with the playing surface to permit selective opening of covers that obscure indicia matchable with indicia designating positions along a slot path.
Claims5
A portable game comprising:
- a generally planar bottom surface;
- a playing surface spaced from the bottom surface and having a predetermined thickness;
- pieces movable by a player during play of the game;
- the playing surface including a slot receiving the player movable pieces;
- a slot extending through the thickness;
- means capturing the pieces against removal from playing surface;
- the slot including discreet spaced apart positions along the path defined by truncated conical depressions;
- and the pieces including a stem extending therefrom, said stem having an enlargement at each end thereof and a truncated conical section located therebetween that fits into the depression.
A portable game comprising:
- a generally planar bottom surface;
- a playing surface spaced from the bottom surface and having a predetermined thickness;
- pieces movable by a player during play of the game;
- the playing surface including a slot receiving the player movable pieces;
- the slot extending through the thickness;
- means capturing the pieces against removal from the playing surface;
- means defining discreet positions along the slot;
- a plurality of indicia identifying the discreet positions of the slot;
- a plurality of obscured indicia that may be selectively exposed one at a time;
- means limiting exposure of the obscured indicia to one at a time;
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- each of the selectable obscured indicia corresponding to one of the indicia identifying a discreet position along the slot.
A portable game comprising:
- a generally planar bottom surface;
- a playing surface spaced from the bottom surface and having a predetermined thickness;
- pieces movable by a player during play of the game;
- the playing surface including a slot receiving the player movable pieces;
- the slot extending through the thickness;
- means capturing the pieces against removal from the playing surface;
- means defining discreet positions along the slot;
- a plurality of indicia identifying the discreet positions of the slot;
- a plurality of obscured indicia that may be selectively exposed one at a time;
- each of the selectable obscured indicia corresponding to one of the indicia identifying a discreet position along the slot;
- a disc mounted for rotation about an axis generally perpendicular to the playing surface;
- a number of openable covers carried by the disc;
- each of the selectable indicia obscured by one of the covers;
- and
- means retaining the covers in their closed condition until the disc is registered with a notch in the playing surface permitting movement of the cover from the closed condition to an open condition exposing the indicia.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.