Patents Examined by Anton O. Oechsie
  • Patent number: 4754979
    Abstract: This disclosure is a game played with colored chips, which when played on a game board or flat surface, one chip at a time, create for each consecutive of two or more players, with his specific color chips, patterns of number, letters, or geometric designs, depending on the selection of which pattern type, as the game objective at start of game. Values are established for each pattern which determine the winner as the one who has constructed the most patterns and or their accumulated number of values. The game chips are preferably flat pieces of rigid or semirigid material, having multiple edges, such as squares, hexagons, octagons, etc. Each consecutive play by each player constructs "legs", that is, a group of same color chips in a row, of two or more, the combinations of these rows used to construct the specific pattern selected by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Inventor: Vesper A. Vaseen