US 6,783,127 B2Granted

Concentric game board and method of playing a game

OwnerJon William Fishinventor

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Abstract

A game board includes concentric circular areas (outer, middle, and center) each having a respective subset of piece locations. A barrier separates locations in the outer and middle areas and/or in the middle and center areas. Outer and middle area locations and some center area locations are disposed in a ring. Other center area locations are disposed inside the center ring. The barrier has two to four openings for pieces to pass through. A barrier separating the center and middle areas has at most four openings, preferably two aligned on a single diameter. Outer area locations have at least two different visual identifiers. A game includes providing a playing piece set to players, each set having one special piece and different other pieces identical to one another. Each player takes turns to prevent an opponent's special piece from being able to move without elimination of any piece during the game.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method of playing a game, which comprises:

providing a game board having a game surface with defined playing piece locations;
defining at least two of the piece locations as converting locations;
providing a set of playing pieces to at least two opposing players, each playing piece set having:
only one first piece;
and
a subset of second pieces identical to one another and different from the first piece;
placing each of the playing piece sets on the piece locations of the game surface;
initially defining the second piece subset as having a first set of characteristics;
defining respective pieces of the second piece subset as having a second set of characteristics when the respective pieces are placed on or jump over one of the converting locations;
and
each of the players taking turns to move their own playing pieces among the piece locations and prevent the first piece of another one of the players from being able to move from one of the piece locations to another of the piece locations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/163,055Filed 5 Jun 2002
Published: US 2003/0227133 A111 Dec 2003
Granted: 31 Aug 2004
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A63F 3/00176
Characteristics of game boards, alone or in relation to supporting structures or playing piece: boards having particular shapes, e.g. hexagonal,…
A63F 2003/00022
Played along an endless track: played along concentric endless tracks
A63F 2003/00208
Boards having particular shapes, e.g. hexagonal, triangular, circular, irregular: circular game board
A63F
Card, board, or roulette games