Image recognition game apparatus
AssigneeThe Face To Face Game Company
InventorGlen M. Kelley
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Abstract
The game includes a gameboard, game pieces, image or face cards and a revealing device. The device includes a plurality of shutters, each slidable between open and closed positions. With a face card inserted in the device and the shutters closed, the face is covered, since each shutter covers a different portion of the face, and all portions are thereby covered. As the shutters are separately opened, the face is incrementally revealed. The opening of the shutters is determined by the movement of the game pieces on the gameboard, which can be determined by the roll of a pair of dice or by other random apparatus. Points are awarded to the player who first correctly identifies the face on the card as the shutters are slid to their open positions, and the face thereby incrementally revealed.
Claims19
An image recognition game apparatus, comprising:
- a gameboard having a plurality of areas defining at least one gamepath;
- a first gamepiece for a first player and movable along said at least one gamepath;
- a second gamepiece for a second player and movable along said at least one gamepath;
- a first card having a first image thereon;
- a second card having thereon a second image, different from said from image;
- a first revealing device including a first holder having a first viewing area, and a plurality of first shutters, said first viewing area being positioned such that with said first card in an insert position in said first holder said first image is at least substantially in said first viewing area, each said first shutter being movable between open and closed positions relative to said first viewing area such that when in the open position a corresponding portion of said first image of said first card in the insert position is visible through said first viewing area and when in the closed position the corresponding portion is blocked from viewing by the first and second players;
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- a second revealing device including a second holder having a second viewing area and a plurality of second shutters, said second viewing area being positioned such that with said second card in an insert position in said second holder said second image is at least substantially in said second viewing area, each said second shutter being movable between open and closed positions relative to said second viewing area such that when in the open position a corresponding portion of said second image of said second card in the insert position is visible through said second viewing area and when in the closed position the corresponding portion is blocked from viewing by the first and second players;
- wherein the movement of said first and second gamepieces along said at least one gamepath determines whether each of said first and second shutters is moved from their closed positions to their open positions to thereby expose to a greater extent at least one of said first and second images for attempted recognition by at least one of the players.
A game playing method, comprising the steps of:
- moving a gamepiece along at least one gamepath comprising a plurality of spaces;
- providing a first revealing device having a plurality of closed first shutters, each blocking from view a different portion of a first image;
- providing a second revealing device having a plurality of closed second shutters, each blocking from view a different portion of a second image;
- opening at least some of the first and second shutters when the gamepiece lands on certain of the spaces and as thereby directed, and thereby exposing portions of the first and second images;
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- thereafter, attempting to identify the first image from the exposed portions thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.