US 5,312,110 AGranted

Board game apparatus

OwnerMark D. Youwanesinventor

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Abstract

A board game apparatus is arranged to include a game board having an equal predetermined number of rows and columns of squares, wherein opposing groups relative to simulated assemblies of tokens are positioned on opposed end portions of the game board to simulate soldiers, knights, a giant, and a captured king, wherein by elimination of opposing player tokens, a captured king is reclaimed by a moving player from an opposing player.

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A board game apparatus, comprising,

a game board, the game board having a matrix of spaces, wherein the game board includes a game board first end spaced from and parallel to a game board second end, and a game board first side spaced from and parallel to a game board second side, with a predetermined number of rows of said spaces directed between the first end and the second end,
and
a plurality of columns equal to said predetermined number directed between the first side and second side in a parallel relationship, wherein the columns orthogonally intersect the rows,
and
the first team of tokens positioned adjacent the game board first end, and a second team of tokens positioned adjacent the second end, the first team of tokens having soldier tokens, knight tokens, a giant token, and a captured king token, with the second team of tokens having a second team plurality of soldier tokens, second team knight tokens, a second team giant token, and a second team captured king token, with the soldier tokens movable orthogonally between the first end and the second end, and orthogonally between the first side and the second side, and diagonally relative to the first end and the second end and the first side and the second side relative to the spaces,
and
the knight token movable orthogonally relative to the first side and the second side and orthogonally relative to the first end and the second end of the game board and diagonally relative to the first side and the second side and the first end and the second end relative to the spaces,
and
the captured king token maintained in one of said rows adjacent the first end of the first team, and the second team having the second team captured king token positioned in one of said rows adjacent the second end,
and
each of the tokens includes a token base, the token base having a token blade, wherein the token blade is translucent and the token base includes a token base cavity, the token base cavity having an illumination bulb mounted therewithin, and a first socket and a second socket in electrical communication with the illumination bulb, the first socket mounted to a first tube, the second socket mounted to a second tube, with the first tube having a first axle mounted through the first tube permitting pivoting of the first socket, and the second socket axle mounted through the second tube permitting pivoting of the second socket, and the token blade having a lower distal end received within the token base, and the lower distal end having a first electrode and a second electrode, and a battery mounted within the token blade between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are received within a respective first socket and second socket, wherein the first socket and the second socket are coaxially aligned with the first electrode and the second electrode respectively in the first position permitting illumination of the illumination bulb, with the first socket and the second socket pivoted and displaced relative to the first electrode and the second electrode in a second position effecting discontinuance of communication of the battery with the illumination bulb.

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Abstract

A board game apparatus, comprising,

a game board, the game board having a matrix of spaces, wherein the game board includes a game board first end spaced from and parallel to a game board second end, and a game board first side spaced from and parallel to a game board second side, with a predetermined number of rows of said spaces directed between the first end and the second end,
and
a plurality of columns equal to said predetermined number directed between the first side and second side in a parallel relationship, wherein the columns orthogonally intersect the rows,
and
the first team of tokens positioned adjacent the game board first end, and a second team of tokens positioned adjacent the second end, the first team of tokens having soldier tokens, knight tokens, a giant token, and a captured king token, with the second team of tokens having a second team plurality of soldier tokens, second team knight tokens, a second team giant token, and a second team captured king token, with the soldier tokens movable orthogonally between the first end and the second end, and orthogonally between the first side and the second side, and diagonally relative to the first end and the second end and the first side and the second side relative to the spaces,
and
the knight token movable orthogonally relative to the first side and the second side and orthogonally relative to the first end and the second end of the game board and diagonally relative to the first side and the second side and the first end and the second end relative to the spaces,
and
the captured king token maintained in one of said rows adjacent the first end of the first team, and the second team having the second team captured king token positioned in one of said rows adjacent the second end,
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each of the tokens includes a token base, the token base having a token blade, wherein the token blade is translucent and the token base includes a token base cavity, the token base cavity having an illumination bulb mounted therewithin, and a first socket and a second socket in electrical communication with the illumination bulb, the first socket mounted to a first tube, the second socket mounted to a second tube, with the first tube having a first axle mounted through the first tube permitting pivoting of the first socket, and the second socket axle mounted through the second tube permitting pivoting of the second socket, and the token blade having a lower distal end received within the token base, and the lower distal end having a first electrode and a second electrode, and a battery mounted within the token blade between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are received within a respective first socket and second socket, wherein the first socket and the second socket are coaxially aligned with the first electrode and the second electrode respectively in the first position permitting illumination of the illumination bulb, with the first socket and the second socket pivoted and displaced relative to the first electrode and the second electrode in a second position effecting discontinuance of communication of the battery with the illumination bulb.

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