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US 5,401,032 AGranted
Mystery puzzle game
AssigneeCassette Productions Unlimited, Inc.
InventorsThomas L. Barnhart, Frank M. Smith
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Abstract
A game having a number of cards on which a story is written. Certain elements of the story are obscured by chromatic camouflage. A decoder having a chromatic filter may be used to view the obscured elements.
Claims15
A game comprising:
- a plurality of game cards, each having first and second faces;
- and
- a decoder comprising a chromatic filter, wherein at least one of said plurality of game cards bears a written story on its first face and wherein a plurality of elements of said story are obscured by chromatic camouflage such that their legibility is improved when viewed through said chromatic filter.
A game comprising:
- a plurality of game cards, each having first and second faces;
- and
- a decoder comprising transparent sheet, wherein at least one of said plurality of game cards bears a written story on its first face and wherein a plurality of elements of said story are hidden such that their legibility is improved when viewed through said a colored transparent sheet.
A method for playing a card game comprising a plurality of story bearing cards, each with camouflaged elements in the story, and a decoder for reading the camouflaged elements, the cards each comprising a side opposite from the story, which in combination with the other cards forms an illustration of a scene, the method comprising the steps of:
- reading the story on each card;
- using the decoder to view and read the camouflaged elements of the story on each card;
- and
- assembling the cards together with their opposite sides exposed to form the scene.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.