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US 8,025,295 B2Granted
Christmas tree game
OwnerStephen J. Bizilia, Lori Elizabeth McCarthyinventors
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Abstract
A game comprises: a game board; a tree trunk for each player playing the game, the tree truck attachable to the game board; a plurality of branches for the each player playing the game, the plurality of branches attachable to the tree trunk; a tree topper; and a pair of dice; wherein players in turn roll the pair of dice and build a tree from the tree trunk and the plurality of branches based on rolls of the pair of dice.
Claims6
A game comprising:
- a game board having four corners, a cone jutting from a center of the board, and a folding containment fence surrounding the cone;
- four tree stumps, each stump mounted near a corner of the game board;
- four tree trunks attachable to the tree stumps near the corners of the game board, each tree trunk having a lower end for mounting to a tree stump, an upper end, and a length therebetween, each trunk having a plurality of square holes spaced along the length of the tree trunk;
- four sets of branches, each set comprising a plurality of branches, each branch having a square stem end sized for insertion into the square holes on a tree trunk, a branch end, and a length therebetween simulating an evergreen tree branch, the lengths of the plurality of branches being graduated from a largest size for mounting at the lower end of a tree trunk to a smallest size for mounting at the upper end of a tree trunk;
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- four tree toppers, one for each tree trunk, attachable to the upper end of the tree trunk;
- such that when a tree trunk is mounted to a tree stump, and the plurality of branches in a set are mounted to the tree trunk by insertion of the square stem ends of the branches into the square holes along the length of the tree trunk, and the tree topper is attached to the upper end of the tree trunk, the tree stump, tree trunk, the tree topper and the plurality of branches simulate a Christmas tree.
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A method for playing a game comprising a game board having four corners and a cone jutting from a center of the board;
- four tree stumps, one for each player, each stump mounted near a corner of the game board;
- four tree trunks attachable to the tree stumps near the corners of the game board, each tree trunk having a lower end for mounting to a tree stump, an upper end, and a length therebetween, each trunk having a plurality of square holes spaced along the length of the tree trunk;
- four sets of branches, each set comprising a plurality of branches, each branch having a square stem end sized for insertion into the square holes on a tree trunk, a branch end, and a length therebetween simulating an evergreen tree branch, the lengths of the plurality of branches being graduated from a largest size for mounting at the lower end of a tree trunk to a smallest size for mounting at the upper end of a tree trunk;
- four tree toppers, one for each tree trunk, attachable to the upper end of the tree trunk;
- and a pair of six-sided dice, each of the dice having two opposed red sides and four green sides;
- the method comprising:
- a) a player picking up the pair of six-sided dice;
- b) the player dropping the pair of six-sided dice on the cone in the center area of the game board;
- c) the player taking an action in response to the rolling of the pair of six-sided dice;
- the action comprising:
- i) if the pair of six-sided dice show two green sides, adding a part to a tree to build a Christmas tree, the step of adding a part comprising:
- A) attaching a tree trunk to a tree stump if a tree trunk is not yet attached to the tree stump;
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- B) attaching a branch to the tree trunk by inserting the square stem end of the branch into a square hole on the trunk, if the tree trunk is attached to the stump and the tree trunk is not full of attached branches;
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- C) placing a tree topper on the upper end of the tree trunk if the tree trunk is completely full of attached branches, completing the Christmas tree and declaring the player as a winner;
- ii) if the pair of six-sided dice show two red sides, removing a part from the tree;
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- d) a next player picking up the dice and repeating the method from the dropping step (b).
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