US 4,779,874 AGranted

Oil exploration game

OwnerSid Dykstra, John Weenk +1inventors

InventorsSid Dykstra, John Weenk, Alan D. Archibald

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Abstract

A relatively simple, easy to play oil exploration game includes a rectangular parallelepipedic casing with a bottom drawer in one end thereof for carrying the game pieces. A horizontal bottom wall extends between the sides and ends of the casing defining a cover for the drawer. A plurality of partitions or panels are removably mounted in the open top of the casing. The top surface of the uppermost panel defines a playing surface. Each panel has a plurality of spaced apart, vertically aligned, circular openings defining oil wells. Irregularly shaped obstacles defining wet drilling locations or oil-containing wells are slidably mounted on the bottom wall and on the partitions beneath the uppermost panel. Simulated derricks of varying lengths are insertable into the top wall openings to simulate the drilling of wells and indicator pegs are subsequently insertable into drilled wells to indicate the presence or absence of oil. The game further includes play money, a marker for marking the playing surface with a readily erasable substance to delineate oil fields, and a score pad for keeping track of a players salary.

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Dependent claims

An oil exploration game comprising hollow, parallelpipedic casing means including rectangular, horizontal top wall means defining a playing surface, a plurality of regularly spaced apart openings in said top wall means;

a plurality of rectangular, horizontal partition means coextensive with said top wall and vertically spaced therefrom and from each other;
said partitions being vertically spaced at different distances from said top wall such that said partitions simulate different depths;
a plurality of spaced apart openings in at least all but the lowermost of said partition means vertically aligned with the openings in said top wall means;
a plurality of obstacle means defining wet drilling locations slidable on each said partition means for random movement when the casing means is shaken;
first position indicator means for indicating dry drilling locations;
second position indicator means for indicating wet drilling locations;
a plurality of elongated simulated well derrick means adapted to be inserted in said openings, and each derrick means having one of a plurality of different lengths, each length reflecting one of said different depths such that respective ones of said derrick means can be inserted respectively through selected different numbers of said partition means to simulate drilling depth;
marker means for delineating areas on said playing surface around at least one of the openings therein with a readily erasable substance, whereby drilling areas can be defined and removed at the end of a game;
simulated money for use by the players;
and score pad means for establishing a salary for each player.

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