Game apparatus
AssigneeMattel Europa B.V.
InventorJohn Dudley Reynolds
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Abstract
Game apparatus (1) has a plurality of playing locations (11) at each of which is rotatably mounted a playing piece (60). Each playing piece (60) has at least one indicium (65,66) thereon so that rotation of a playing piece (60) to a selected orientation presents said indicium (65,66) to a player. The apparatus (1) has retaining means (36) for retaining each playing piece (60) in a selected orientation. The apparatus (1) further has reset means (30) operable to reset the playing pieces (60) for a new game.
Claims39
Game apparatus, the game apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of playing locations at each of which is rotatably mounted a playing piece, each playing piece having an indicium thereon so that rotation of a playing piece to a selected orientation presents said indicium to a player;
- retaining means for retaining each playing piece in a selected orientation, wherein the retaining means comprises at least one elastic member biased into engagement with the playing pieces;
- and,
- reset means operable to reset the playing pieces for a new game by disengaging said at least one elastic member from the playing pieces, thereby allowing the playing pieces to be reset.
Game apparatus, the game apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of playing locations at each of which is rotatably mounted a playing piece, each playing piece having a plurality of faces, at least one of said faces of each playing piece having an indicium thereon to distinguish that face from other faces of the playing piece so that rotation of a playing piece to a selected orientation presents said indicium to a player;
- a carriage carrying plural spring wires which are biased into engagement with respective ones of said playing pieces for retaining each playing piece in a selected orientation;
- and,
- biasing means for biasing the carriage so that the playing pieces are normally retained in the selected orientation by the spring wires, the carriage being displaceable against the bias of the biasing means to disengage the spring wires from the playing pieces thereby to allow the playing pieces to be reset for a new game.
Game apparatus, comprising:
- a base including a depressible carriage;
- at least one mechanism adapted to bias the carriage away from the base;
- a plurality of rotatable playing pieces having axes of rotation, each playing piece including a plurality of faces that are selectively revealable to a player by rotating the playing pieces about their axes of rotation;
- indicium on at least one of the faces of each playing piece;
- and
- at least one second bias mechanism normally adapted to engage the plurality of playing pieces to prevent unintentional rotation of the playing pieces, wherein upon depression of the carriage toward the base, the playing pieces are freed from engagement by the at least one second bias mechanism.
Game apparatus, the game apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of playing locations at each of which is rotatably mounted a playing piece, each playing piece having a plurality of faces, wherein at least one of said faces has an indicium thereon so that rotation of a playing piece to a selected orientation presents said indicium to a player, and further wherein each face having an indicium thereon also includes at least one rotation indicium thereon adapted to indicate to a player the direction of rotation of the playing piece about its axis of rotation to display a corresponding one of the faces;
- retaining means for retaining each playing piece in a selected orientation;
- and,
- reset means operable to reset the playing pieces for a new game.
Game apparatus according to claim 35, comprising biasing means for biasing the carriage so that the playing pieces are normally retained in a selected orientation by the retaining means, the carriage being displaceable against the bias of the biasing means to allow the playing pieces to be reset.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.