Board games with player-wearable costume components
AssigneeMattel, Inc.
InventorsChip Stewart, Jim Keifer, Peter MacIver
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Abstract
Board games may include a game board, player movers, and indicia-bearing tokens and player-wearable costume components including one or more mounting sites to which the tokens may be removably attached. Some embodiments may further include game pieces having indicia indicating one or more of the tokens. Thus, some methods of game play may involve each player attempting to collect a predetermined set of tokens by determining if various game pieces indicate any of the tokens in the set. Other methods may involve concealing the indicia on one or more game pieces, and allowing players to attempt to guess the concealed indicia by the process of elimination.
Claims14
A game for at least two players, the game comprising:
- a game board;
- a plurality of player movers adapted to be moved on the game board, each player mover including distinguishable player affiliation indicia;
- a plurality of player-wearable costume components, each player-wearable costume component including one or more mounting sites;
- a plurality of sets of tokens, each token adapted to be removably mounted to a mounting site of a player-wearable costume component, and the tokens of each set being visually distinguishable from the other tokens in the same set and including player affiliation indicia such that each set of tokens visually corresponds with a player mover;
- a set of game pieces, each game piece including token indicia adapted to visually indicate a token in one of the plurality of sets of tokens;
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- a set of rules for game play.
A method of playing a game that includes a game board with a plurality of predetermined locations, a plurality of player movers adapted to be moved on the game board, a plurality of player-wearable costume components, each costume component including one or more mounting sites, a plurality of sets of tokens each including distinguishable player affiliation indicia such that each set of tokens visually corresponds with a player mover, with each token adapted to be removably mounted to a mounting site of a player-wearable costume component, a plurality of game pieces each including token indicia indicating a token, and a set of rules, the method comprising:
- distributing to each player a player-wearable costume component and a player mover;
- placing the game pieces on one or more of the predetermined locations on the game board such that the token indicia on the same pieces is not visible;
- moving a player's player mover on the game board to a predetermined location upon which a same piece that indicates a token with player affiliation indicia corresponding to the player mover has been placed;
- displaying the token indicia on a same piece to the player;
- removably mounting the indicated token to the player's player-wearable costume component;
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- wearing the player-wearable costume component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.