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US 5,308,080 AGranted
Method of playing a board game
OwnerStewart M. Lamleinventor
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Abstract
A game apparatus includes fourteen playing places and a playing surface divided into sixteen squares. The players try to arrange their own pieces and two wild pieces into a winning configuration of four in a row, the four corner squares of the playing surface, or four adjacent squares which form a solid square. The playing surface may be formed into a pouch to contain the playing pieces.
Claims8
A method of playing a game with a plurality of playing pieces and a game board having a plurality of adjacent squares comprising:
- dividing the playing pieces into first, second, and third distinguishable sets;
- assigning the first set to a first player;
- assigning the second set to a second player;
- allowing the first player to use only the pieces of the first and the third sets;
- allowing the second player to use only the pieces of the second and third sets;
- restricting the players to the placement of pieces only on unoccupied squares of the game board;
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- allowing the players to alternate turns until one of the players moves the pieces he is allowed to use into a winning configuration.
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