Unlucky sevens dice game
AssigneeBarbara May Thistle and Robert Victor Thistle
InventorsBarbara May Thistle, Robert Victor Thistle
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Abstract
A dice game utilizes a playing card and game playing elements. Each player in sequence rolls the dice and places a game playing element on the playing card corresponding to the value displayed on the rolled dice. If the player has previously rolled this number, the number may be used by the next player in sequence who needs this number. If a player rolls a 7, he or she forfeits their turn and must remove a game playing element from one of the covered numbers on their playing card. The first person to have all of the numbers on the playing card covered wins the game and the contents of the winner's pot.
Claims3
A game, effective for stimulating enjoyment and interaction between two or more family and friends, said game comprising:
- a plurality of game playing components, said plurality of game playing components comprising:
- multiple dice, wherein each of said multiple dice includes numerical indicia on each of its sides;
- a winner's pot, configured for receiving collected game playing elements;
- a plurality of game playing elements;
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- a plurality of game card/boards, one game card/board for each of said at least two or more family and friends playing said game, each of said game card/board having a front surface including separate game playing element receiver regions, each game playing element receiver region including one of at least the numbers 2 through 6 and 8 through 12;
- and wherein the game is played as follows:
- rolling two of the multiple dice by a first player;
- adding the numeric total of each numerical indicia on one side of each of the rolled two of the multiple dice by the first player;
- responsive to said added numeric total of said numerical indicia on one side of each of the rolled two of the multiple dice, said first player determining whether said numeric total is 7;
- responsive to said numeric total being 7, said first player removing a game playing element from one of said game playing element receiver regions on said first player's game card/board and placing said removed game playing element into said winner's pot, or removing a game playing element from said plurality of game playing elements assigned to said first player and not yet on said game board and placing said removed game playing element into said winner's pot;
- responsive to said numeric total not being 7, said first player determining whether a game playing element receiver region on said first player's game card/board having a number corresponding to said added numeric total of said numerical indicia on one side of each of the rolled two of the multiple dice has or has not previously been covered by a game playing element;
- responsive to said act of determining that said game playing element receiver region having said added numeric total of said numerical indicia on one side of each of the rolled two of the multiple dice which has not been previously covered by a game playing element, said first player placing a game playing element on a game playing element receiver region of said game card/board having a number corresponding to said added numeric total of numerical indicia on one side of each of the rolled two of the multiple dice;
- responsive to said act of determining that said game playing element receiver region having said numeric total of said rolled multiple dice has been previously covered by a game playing element, play moving to a second or subsequent player who does not have his or her game playing element receiver region on his or her game playing card/board including said numeric total rolled by said first player covered;
- said first player subsequently determining whether each of said numerical indicia on one side of each of the rolled two of the multiple dice includes the same numeric value, in which case said first player rolls said two multiple dice a subsequent time and repeats the steps of adding the numeric total of each numerical indicia on one side of each of the rolled two of the rolled multiple dice in determining whether a game playing element receiver region on said first player's game card/boards includes a game playing element receiver region wherein said numeric total has or has not been previously covered by a game playing element;
- after said first player has rolled said two multiple dice wherein each of said rolled multiple dice does not include the same numeric value, play continuing to a second and subsequent player who repeats the steps of rolling two multiple dice, adding the numeric value of numerical indicia on one side of each of the rolled two of the multiple dice and determining whether the second and subsequent player's game card/board includes a game playing element receiver region wherein said numeric total of said multiple dice has or has not previously been covered by a game playing element;
- repeating the sequence said game playing acts set forth above;
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- after at least one of said multiple players determines that each of said player's game playing element receiver regions on the player's game card/board is covered by a game playing element, determining that said at least one player has won the game wherein said at least one player receives the contents of said winner's pot and receives from each of the remaining multiple players who did not win the game, one game playing element for each of said players' game playing element receiver regions which is not covered by a game playing element.
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