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US 8,408,549 B2Granted
Gaming dice
AssigneeLego A/S
InventorsCephas Edgar Howard, Ditte Bruun Pedersen
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Abstract
A gaming dice for a game, such as a board game or a card game, said gaming dice comprising a body part comprising a number of sides, wherein at least one or more of those sides is/are provided with coupling studs. Hereby it is possible to mount indicia-carrying elements that have a bottom side on which complementary coupling means are provided and a top side which is opposite relative to the bottom side and is provided with indicia.
Claims16
A reconfigurable gaming dice for a game, said gaming dice comprising:
- a body part including a number of essentially planar sides that are separated from each other by a plurality of edges, wherein at least one of the sides is provided with at least one coupling stud that projects at a first height from the at least one side of the dice, and wherein at least a portion of the plurality of edges on the gaming dice is provided with a flange that projects outwardly from at least one side of the dice at a second height that is at least as high as the first height of the at least one coupling stud measured at right angles to the sides of the dice to prevent the at least one coupling stud from contacting a flat planar surface on which the dice is resting;
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- at least one indicia-carrying element, the at least one indicia carrying element configured to be disposed on the at least one coupling stud, the at least one indicia carrying element having a bottom side with a recess that is adapted to receive the at least one coupling stud.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.