GridBloc strategy game

Abstract

A GridBloc strategy game. The present invention employs a runner and a blocker within any number of various GridBloc boards. The runner is operable to move throughout the GridBloc board, and the blocker who tries to oppose the movement of the runner throughout the GridBloc board. The GridBloc structure is a three dimensional 3D volume in various embodiments of the invention. The GridBloc game is operable to be performed in the volumetric portion of the GridBloc structure. If desired, the GridBloc game is performed along the surfaces of a 3D GridBloc structure. The runners and blockers have various traits in some embodiments, including special traits that allow them to perform actions beyond a basic functionality of a runner and a blocker. The special traits are used to perform running and blocking operations a fixed number of times during the course of a game, or indefinitely throughout the game in various embodiments of the invention. Moreover, the tiles of the GridBloc structure also have variable characteristics including their respective point values in certain embodiments of the invention. If desired, when two players perform the GridBloc game in accordance with the present invention, two rounds are performed to ensure that both players have an equitable opportunity to score points. Multiple players may also play the game as well. Scoring is calculated by totalling the point values assigned each of the tiles of the GridBloc structure across which the runner has traversed. Operation of running and blocking is performed sequentially or alternatively, simultaneously.

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