Board game
AssigneeBrainy Toys Inc.
InventorsSteven E. Maier, Helmut W. Maier
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Abstract
A foldable baseboard is provided with sixteen fixed tablets, arranged in regular rows. Thirty-three movable tablets are placed in the spaces between the fixed tablets, to make a 7.times.7 square. The tablets are marked out with roads to define paths along which counters may be moved, towards a target tablet. One extra movable tablet is provided, by means of which a player can push a row of the movable tablets, thus improving the road layout, and enabling him to move his counter towards the target. The game apparatus includes target cards, and game money.
Claims13
Apparatus for a board game, wherein:
- the apparatus includes a baseboard, respective movable game counters for each of at least two players, and a series of tablets which are laid out, on the baseboard, adjacent to one another;
- the tablets are provided with means defining a pathway pattern, the means being so arranged on the tablets that in respect of some pairs of adjacent tablets a continuous path for the said game counters is defined therebetween, and in respect of other pairs of adjacent tablets, no pathway for the game counters exists therebetween;
- some of the tablets are movable, a movable tablet being a tablet that is movable relative to an adjacent tablet and to the baseboard;
- some of the tablets are provided with markings designating those tablets as target tablets;
- the pathway pattern is such that a player may move his game counter from tablet to tablet along the pattern of pathways towards a selected one of the target tablets;
- the apparatus includes a means, operable by a player, for moving the movable tablets;
- the arrangement of the apparatus is such that the said movement of the movable tablets gives rise to a fresh pathway pattern;
- the apparatus includes fixed tablets, which are fixed to the baseboard;
- the fixed tablets are spaced apart in regular rows, with such spacing that corridors are created between the rows of fixed tablets, along which the movable tablets may be moved;
- and all the tablets are square.
Apparatus for a board game, wherein:
- the apparatus includes a baseboard, respective movable game counters for each of at least two players, and a series of tablets which are laid out, on the baseboard, adjacent to one another;
- the tablets are provided with means defining a pathway pattern, the means being so arranged on the tablets that in respect of some pairs of adjacent tablets a continuous path for the said game counters is defined therebetween, and in respect of other pairs of adjacent tablets, no pathway for the game counters exists therebetween;
- some of the tablets are provided with markings designating those tablets as target tablets;
- the pathway pattern is such that a player may move his game counter from tablet to tablet along the pattern of pathways towards a selected one of the target tablets;
- the apparatus includes a means, operable by a player, for moving the movable tablets;
- and the arrangement of the apparatus is such that the said movement of the movable tablets gives rise to a fresh pathway pattern;
- the apparatus includes fixed tablets, which are fixed to the baseboard;
- the fixed tablets are spaced apart in regular rows, with such spacing that corridors are created between the rows of fixed tablets, along which the movable tablets may be moved;
- and the movable tablets are co-planar with the fixed tablets, and said movable tablets are slidable on said baseboard and slide along said corridors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.