Abstract: A game apparatus includes a game board assembly which includes a base portion and a plurality of piece-guidance portions located on top of the base portion. The piece-guidance portions include bottom guiding portions supported by the base portion and include top guiding portions supported by the bottom guiding portions. The top guiding portions extend outward beyond the bottom guiding portions, such that grooves are formed by the top guiding portions, the bottom guiding portions, and the base portion. The piece-guidance portions are spaced apart from each other on the base portion so that guidance channels are provided between adjacent piece-guidance portions and so that game-piece-reception areas are provided at selected positions on the base portion. A plurality of game pieces are adapted to be placed on the base portion. Each game piece includes a foot portion, a body portion, and a head portion.

Abstract: A method and apparatus control message transmissions in an acknowledge-back selective call communication system (100) including an infrastructure (102) and a selective call receiver (120). The selective call receiver (120) stores received messages in a memory (322). The infrastructure (102) transmits (604) to the selective call receiver (120) information including the length (408) of a pending message, and the selective call receiver (120) determines (606) therefrom a response (412, 504) based upon the length (408) of the pending message and memory space available in the memory (322). The selective call receiver (120) transmits (608) the response (412, 504) to the infrastructure (102), and the infrastructure (102) controls further processing of the pending message in accordance with the response (412, 504).