Board games
AssigneeWaddingtons Games Limited
InventorPaul F. Bennett
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Abstract
The invention relates to a board game typically including counters, playing pieces, pawns or the like. The playing pieces are placed of the board and moved across the board in accordance with the play of the game wherein the game board is comprised of at least two sections, one of which has an aperture. The sections are arranged to be part of a game where during the course of play a player or players move pieces on a first section of the board in a direction which may lead to the aperture so that the piece rests on a second section of the playing board and the first section can be moved clear of the second section in order to reveal a second board on which play can take place in the subsequent playing of the game.
Claims10
In a game comprising playing pieces and a game board having at least first and second board sections, defining first and second game sections, the first board section having an aperture or cut-out and said board sections being arranged to be part of a game wherein the first board section is superposed on the second board section and in the play of the game the player or players move playing pieces on the first game section on the first board section and on which play does or may lead the or one of the players to place the or one of the playing pieces in the aperture or cut-out so that it rests on the second board section, and the first board section can be moved clear of the second board section in order to reveal the second game section on which play can take place in the subsequent playing of the game, so that the portion of the second board section accessible through the aperture simultaneously forms part of both the first game section and the second game section, the improvement that the first board section comprises a reverse thereof, wherein at least part of the reverse of the first board section constitutes a part of, and extends, the second board section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.