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OwnerJanine Fioreinventor
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Abstract
A board game providing a random letter selection tray holding a plurality of cubes, each cube displaying at least one letter, the plurality of cubes is shaken in the tray displacing the cubes randomly, whereupon after shaking ceases the letters fall into two columns divided into a plurality of rows. The game players must independently recognize known persons who correspond to the randomly selected initials read across the two columns by individual rows and mark down the persons on each players's game card. The game is timed and multiple players compete with the score based on the number of famous personage which each player can match to the randomly selected initial groupings. Alternate embodiments provide for balls to replace cubes, and cubes having a plurality of different letters, one letter on each face of each cube.
Claims24
A board game comprising:
- a plurality of cubes, each having a plurality of faces, each face displaying one letter;
- a selection tray having compartments for receiving two of said cubes recessed inside each compartment, said compartments aligned in a column, each of said compartments displaying a fixed unique numerical indicator;
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- a hood mounted onto said selection tray, capturing the cubes between said selection tray and said hood and providing a volume for randomly mixing said plurality of cubes for relocation of said cubes into randomly selected compartments;
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- a game card having numerical indicators corresponding to the numerical indicators for said compartments, said game card having blank areas arranged adjacent each numerical indicator for transcribing an answer corresponding to the displaying letters located in each said compartment.
A board game comprising:
- 52 cubes, each cube having a plurality of faces, each cube having only one letters displayed on each of its faces, with two cubes corresponding to each letter of the alphabet;
- a selection tray having 26 compartments for receiving two of said cubes recessed inside each compartment, said compartments aligned in a column;
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- a hood mounted onto said selection tray, capturing the cubes between said selection tray and said hood and providing a volume for randomly mixing said plurality of cubes for relocation of said cubes into randomly selected compartments.
An apparatus for use in a game among a plurality of players in which randomly selected letters are matched to initials of known persons, comprising:
- a means of randomly selecting and displaying a plurality of random two letter groupings providing a letter matrix, each said two letter grouping designated with an identifying marking;
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- a means of recording a player's positive response to each grouping, said means of recording allocating a space corresponding to each said identifying marking for inputting a player's positive response, said positive response being an identification and matching of a particular grouping under consideration by the player of a known person's name having initials which match the two letter grouping under consideration.
A method of playing a game between at least two players comprising the following steps:
- a) provide a means for repeatably randomly selecting and displaying a plurality of two letter groupings;
- b) provide a tally sheet having a designated space corresponding to each grouping;
- c) actuate said means to display said plurality of groupings;
- d) said players simultaneously and independently proceed to match each of said two letter grouping to initials of a person selected from a group of people belonging to a preselected database, and record said person on said tally sheet in said designated space provided for each two letter grouping;
- e) after a predetermined time limit said players reveal said tally sheets to all players;
- f) for each player, record a predetermined positive score value for each grouping wherein said player successfully matches a person's initials to each said grouping;
- g) tally each player'score values to determine the winner of the game.
A board game comprising:
- a selection tray having a column of compartments disposed in lateral rows and corresponding in number to at least the number of coded indicia in a datum reference alphabet;
- a hood mounted onto said selection tray, and providing a volume beneath said hood and said selection tray;
- a plurality of cubes corresponding in number to the number of compartments and with each face of the cube bearing an indicia selected from the coded indicia in the datum reference alphabet, whereby said cubes can be shuffled and shaken under said hood and then randomly deposited in said compartments, said selection tray having a numerical columnar indicia-bearing means on one side of said tray and being labeled with numbers corresponding to each lateral row, and disposed in columnar alignment with said rows of compartments whereby a random indicia couple of said cubes is selectively displayed opposite each number on said indicia-bearing means in a randomly created indicia matrix;
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- a game card having a numerical columnar indicia corresponding to that of said indicia-bearing means for recording answers matching the coupled indicia on the cubes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.