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US 5,314,197 AGranted
Game apparatus
AssigneeHersch & Company
InventorBrian L. Hersch
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Abstract
Game apparatus in which a pawl and ratchet mechanism indexes a game card to bring successive game indicia to a viewing opening, said indicia comprising intelligible indicia interspersed with unintelligible indicia, said intelligible indicia being intelligible only when viewed through a colored filter in said opening, the game being played by teams of two players, one of whom views said indicia and gives the other player clues for identifying the information in the indicia.
Claims9
Game apparatus comprising:
- game card means for carrying game indicia having a plurality of intelligible game indicia spaced therealong, said game indicia being interspersed with nonintelligible indicia whereby said game indicia can be read only when viewed through a window in the apparatus;
- a housing comprising side walls and a front cover, one of said side walls having an opening for receiving said game card means, said front cover having a window for viewing said game indicia on said game card means;
- ratchet means on said game card means;
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- pawl means in said housing cooperating with said ratchet means for indexing said game card means to bring successive ones of said game indicia into play.
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Game card means for use in a game apparatus having pawl means comprising:
- a card bearing a plurality of intelligible indicia of a first color spaced along said card, said intelligible indicia being interspersed with nonintelligible indicia of a second color, said intelligible indicia being intelligible only when viewed through a filter of said second color;
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- an elongated card carrier having a rear surface bearing ratchet means for indexing cooperation with said pawl means, said card carrier having guide means on its front surface for receiving said game card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.