Abstract: A board game having a rectangular support for carrying arrays of images. Each image has a set of six manually variable rotatable drum indicators, each set, one for each player, being located are at each of the peripheral sides of the support. Each drum bears a number of peripheral images. Only one of which is visible at any one time. The number selected by throwing dice direct players to rotate the corresponding drums. An objective of the game is to display common numbers through a player's set of arrays.

Abstract: A learning game for a particular factual subject includes a spin wheel having a face bearing question-asking designators apporpriate to the subject. The game also includes a plurality of identical boards, one for each player. Each board bears correct answer designators corresponding to all of the question-asking designators of the spin wheel. Each display also bears at least one designator which is not the answer to any question-asking designator. The players first spin the spin wheel to randomly select a question, board markers are used to cover the corresponding correct answer designators on the board. The spin wheel also includes a non-question-asking designator which gives the player spinning the same the opportunity to freely place a marker on any board designator preferably a designator which is not the answer to any question-asking designator. The game continues until a player has covered all the correct answer designators on his or her board.

Abstract: A game in which a number of players each attempt to collect all of the parts of a meal indicated on a menu allocated to each player at the outset of the game. No two menus are alike, but there is one part of the meal that is common to each of the menus. Other parts are common to some but not all of the menus. Each of the parts of the meal is displayed on one side of a commonly shaped, preferably pie shaped, piece. The pieces fit into cutout portions of a tray provided to each player. In addition to the menu item pieces, similarly shaped pieces have instructions on one side which cause players to trade pieces. All of the pieces are placed face down and each player in turn picks up a piece to obtain the needed parts of the meal. As each player picks and replaces unneeded items, the other players attempt to recall the location of items they need so that they can pick them on their next turn.

Abstract: A game board (10) having nine regions (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28) and four penalty regions (30, 32, 34, 36) is played using a pair of standard, six sided dice (42), a plurality of instruction cards (40), and a plurality of game pieces (38). Each game player has a set of game pieces (38) which are the same shape and/or color. Seven of the nine regions are defined as playing regions (12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24) and have numbers associated with each, one region (28) is where the instruction cards (40) are placed and selected from and also has a unique number associated with it, and one region (26) is where a new game piece enters the board. Each instruction card (40) has an instruction relating to the movement of a game piece (38) on the board (10).

Abstract: A strategy game utilizing two forms of a playing piece, one indicating direction and representing attack, the other indicating position and representing defense. Each player has a plurality of playing pieces. The game begins with all pieces held in storage During the game, playing pieces are put into play and either take up defensive positions or attack defensive pieces already in place. The game ends when all pieces have been played. Participants may make plays at any time they choose. The object of the game is to protect one's defensive pieces while attacking the defensive pieces of one's opponents. The winner is determined through a method of interpreting the success of attacks by examining placement of pieces relative to each other.

Abstract: The game comprises a plurality of playing members capable of being stacked, columnar fashion, in various configurations. Each member has opposed flat surfaces for flat-wise engagement with a surface of a neighboring member and these surfaces are treated or otherwise provided as low-friction surfaces. The basic object of the game is to manually push one member rapidly from beneath an overlying member and to catch the pushed member before it falls to the playing surface. Cards are provided to designate the various types of stacked arrangements to be used in variations of the basic game. Scoring adjuncts are also provided. The playing members are provided in one set of several members configured as right parallelepipeds and another set of several members configured as low-altitude cylinders.

Abstract: A game consisting of a game board with thirty six identical playing pieces and one control playing piece. The board comprises thirty seven spaces. Cube shaped playing pieces have six arrangements of four colors on the six sides which allows a choice of twenty four possible ways to orient the playing pieces onto the spaces on the board to achieve player advantage.

Abstract: An educational game includes a substrate having a plurality of separate sets of indicia thereon and structure for exhibiting the indicia of one of the sets of the substrate. A random symbol is generated from a plurality of possible symbols and an initial exhibition of a number fewer than all of the indicia in the set is carried out such that the number of indicia exhibited corresponds in value to the generated symbol. During the initial exhibition, the remaining indicia of the set which are not revealed are concealed by the structure. A player playing the game is provided with a way to indicate his or her prediction of a designated indicia to be subsequently revealed in the set so that upon subsequent exhibition of the indicia of the set, a comparison with the player's choice may be made.

Abstract: A game apparatus incorporates a random result generator into the playing surface itself, and includes a game board having a perimeter, a plurality of corners, a plurality of playing sections, and a center area. A boundary extends generally around the perimeter of the playing surface, but interior of the corners. A plurality of section dividing lines, each defining a diminishing-radius curve extending from the boundary towards the center area, divide that portion of the playing surface into a plurality of playing sections, each bearing indicia corresponding to a play result. Players roll game pieces from the playing surface corners towards the playing sections, so that the game piece comes to rest on one playing section, thus generating a result indicia for that roll. The player then draws a single card from the group of cards bearing that same result indicia, and asks the question printed on that card.

Abstract: A board game including a playing board, a plurality of markers and a plurality of cards. The board playing surface has a plurality of spaces forming a playing lattice along the perimeter portion of the board. Each space is colored by one of a plurality of various colors. A group of lines runs through the middle portion of the playing lattice and each line is also colored by one of the plurality of various colors. The lines make connections between the spaces. The markers indicate by symbols, characteristics or facts of nature and the cards have statements of physical, mental, philosophical, spiritual or emotional characteristics of human beings and natural phenomena. According to the rules, a player places markers on the spaces, selects a card, reads the statement and uses the statement to describe a relation between two or more placed markers. The markers used in the relationship can only be markers placed on similarly colored spaces wherein these spaces are connected by similarly colored lines.

Abstract: The present invention is a board game which includes eighty one playing pieces, a game board and six view blockers. The game board is marked with a plurality of main fields and a plurality of extra fields. Each playing piece is painted with one of nine different colors and carries one of nine different digits 1 to 9. Each player has a view blocker for blocking the other players' view of his collection of playing pieces. The main fields are in use when only two players are playing and are subdivided into identical spaces each sized to receive a playing piece. Three of the main fields have three spaces each. Six of the main fields have four spaces each. Four of the main fields have five spaces each. Four of the main fields have six spaces each. One of the main fields has seven spaces. One of the main fields has eight spaces. One of the main fields has nine spaces. One of the main fields is marked with an "X" and is called "penalty box".

Abstract: A game board bearing indicia defining a plurality of adjoining game spaces, a plurality of sets of distinctive markers for placing in the spaces to progressively outline design patterns allotted to the various game players by radomly drawing game cards bearing the patterns, and design pattern-making pads, score-keeping pads and game rules. In accordance with the method of play, order of play by the players is first determined, then the individual design patterns are drawn by card by the players, after which each player secretly determines where to outline the selected pattern on the game board and secretly records that selection on a pattern-recording sheet. Thereupon, each player, in turn, places a marker on a space on the game board in order to progressively complete that player's pattern. Points are awarded for first finishing a pattern, blocking another player's pattern and first reaching an intersection of patterns. The player who first accumulates a predetermined point total or completes a pattern wins.

Abstract: A new board game of logical, educational and entertainment values, for two or more players, which comprises: A playing board marked with a plurality of locations, divided into spaces, identical in shape and size. Playing pieces, blank on one side, and colored with numbers thereon on the other side. The playing pieces are identical in shape and equal in size to the spaces of the playing board. A container is provided for storing the playing pieces. A blinder is provided for each player to hide his/her playing pieces.

Abstract: A question and answer game which requires a coded reference surface having a depiction thereon, preferrably in the form of a map is taught. The reference surface is subdividable by a coded cell-type network. The players correctly answer different questions provided on cards by identifying the appropriate coded area on the depiction with the answers to the questions appropriately associated therewith. The individual cells of the network are further dividable by a separate lens-type member having division lines thereon defining further coded areas. In this way, the answer accuracy may be increased and the depiction is not unduly cluttered.

Abstract: A game apparatus comprises a board having a playing area divided into two cartels. Each cartel is allocated an equal number of weighted contest tokens which are placed within each cartel. Players wager contest tokens in successive rounds of play. A spinner determines whether contest tokens wagered for each turn will be removed from or added to the playing area. The number of tokens wagered are determined by player selected groups of transaction outcomes and a chance device. Contest tokens removed from the playing area are placed on a designated side of a calibrated scale. With the completion of each turn, the balance or imbalance of the scale determines the odds of the outcomes for each cartel in the following turn. Cards from one of two sets are drawn by each cartel at the end of each turn, one set for the cartel achieving the greatest disarmament in the turn, the other set for the other cartel. Each cartel may accumulate cards for redemption at a later turn.

Abstract: A game is provided for stimulating innovation and exercising fundamental thinking and communication skills. Each game player is provided with a game card which is imprinted with pictorial illustrations and legends characterizing a predetermined number of different kinds of stories which each player is to tell during the course of play. Each player in turn randomly selects the primary characteristics of a story to be told. The player then randomly selects a randomly predetermined number of graphic images, these being then used by the player in telling a story of the previously selected character. On successfully completing the telling of the story, the player is given a frame to place about the particular pictorial illustration bearing the characterizing legend for the story just told. The game is completed when a player has first provided frames about all the pictorial illustrations on his game card.

Abstract: A game in which players gain points by correctly solving problems depicted on cards in a chart-like format. The cards are divided into three cards sets according to three different levels of difficulty. Six vertical columns each having a plurality of slots for receiving chips are used for keeping track of each player's score. Each player is assigned a vertical column. The six vertical columns are each divided into three areas corresponding to the three card sets. Players progress during the game by correctly solving problems and inserting chips. The card set from which a players must choose a card is determined by the column area the player has progressed to. The first player to earn a predetermined number of points wins the game. The solution to each problem and clues to aid in solving each problem are provided.

Abstract: There is described a board game having (n+3).sup.2 playing spaces and an equal number of playing pieces, of which (n+1)(3n/2 +1) are numbered on each side and the remainder are blank. The numbered tiles are divided into three groups: one group has members whose numbers on each side are identical; a second group has a number on one side different from the numbers on the other sides; the third group has two pairs of numbers on each piece with the members of each pair on opposite sides. Several variations in play are described.

Abstract: A game apparatus in the form of a board game and method of playing same with sixty-four subsquares comprising a main square with a border around all four sides of the main square, two sides of the border at ninety degrees to one another having one designation and the other two sides at ninety degrees to each other having a different designation with eight circles being located outside the border on all four sides of the main square. Charge discs are placed in the circles and number discs are placed in the squares, the stated value of a number disc being increased, decreased or unchanged by its respective pair of charge discs.

Abstract: A game played with L-shaped members for positioning upon a playing board having squares defined thereon and color marking in a majority of the squares displaying a fixed pattern of horizontal and vertical continuously extending lines of squares. Each of the L-shaped members having squares defined thereon with at least one of the squares of each of the L-shaped members being marked with a different color. The purpose of the game is to generate by the selective placement of the L-shaped members on the squares of the playing board to obtain an assembly of the L-shaped members with the colored squares thereof overlying the color marked squares of the playing board and wherein each horizontal and vertical row of the colored squares of the L-shaped members display different colors.

Abstract: A game board for use in placing a modified version of the ancient board game GO. The board contains a rectangular arrangement of equi-dimensional, contiguous hexagons. Nine predetermined points are marked on the board in the form of one point located in the center area of the center hexagon and eight points, symmetrically located around the one central point. Two differently colored sets of stones are also provided. A different variation to the game includes two rows of colored spaces at each end of the board and apertures at the center of each hexagon and at the corner of each hexagon. The apertures serve to receive pegs which are placed therein.

Abstract: Each player has a board having a number (N) of rows each of which comprises a number of sockets. The number of sockets in the first row is one, the number of sockets in the second row is two, the number of sockets in the third row is three, and so on up to the Nth row, which has N sockets. The game is played with a multiplicity of small pieces which fit into the sockets and which, when laid on a table with the proper orientation, reveal one of a number of N of first (or "visible") characteristics, such as color. Each small piece also has one of a number N of second (or "concealable") characteristics, such as color, which may be revealed or concealed, as desired. The small piece is constructed in such a manner that the first characteristic is always viewable whenever the second characteristic is revealed. The game apparatus also includes a die to determine the sequence of play, as well as a number N of small pieces which are wild. The game proceeds in major increments which I call "jousts".

Abstract: Game apparatus comprises a game board together with a plurality of playing pieces each coded to indicate its attribute and value. Three playing pieces of different attributes and different values are stacked to comprise a playing unit. Two players compare the attributes and values of the bottom-most piece of their playing units successively in a number of plays in order to determine the outcome of the game. The game comprises three different groups of attributes having strengths that allow a first group to be stronger than a second, the second group to be stronger than a thrid and the third group to be stronger than the first. In addition, each of the groups of attributes contains three hierarchically ranked groups of different values.

Abstract: A board game wherein the playing board has color-coded sides and color chips having each side color-coded are placed by opposing players on the playing board adjacent to other color chips and the color-coded sides of the board so that the colors of each adjacent chip match one another and so that the color of each chip which is adjacent to a color-coded side of the board also matches the color-coded side.

Abstract: A board game for being played competitively between up to four players, and including a gameboard divided into nine areas, a set of chips for each player to place upon the gameboard areas, and a deck of cards carrying instructions for placements and removals of the chips. The game board being foldable to enclose a card shuffling device.

Abstract: A board game in which cards bearing numerical indicia are dealt onto a game board and arranged according to opposing sets of indicia on the playing board defining a plurality of placement locations for receiving the cards, the placement locations including a central leader location and a plurality of supporting locations surrounding the leader location. Two players control cards on opposing sides of the board. A novel game proceeds by conducting contests between the player's leader cards supported by cards in a particular supporting location. Losing cards involved in a contest are removed from the game and play proceeds to further contests.

Abstract: A puzzle-game having a single playing surface divided into a number of rows, each row containing several divisions, the game including a set of playing elements having distinguishing indicia and "hints" or cues thereon. The object of the game is to arrange the playing elements on the divisions of the playing surface in predetermined patterns which are unknown to the players.

Abstract: A board game in which cards bearing numerical indicia are dealt onto a game board and arranged according to opposing sets of indicia on the playing board defining a plurality of placement locations for receiving the cards, the placement locations including a central leader location and a plurality of supporting locations surrounding the leader location. Two players control cards on opposing sides of the board. A novel game proceeds by conducting contests between the players' leader cards supported by cards in a particular supporting location. Losing cards involved in a contest are removed from the game and play proceeds to further contests.

Abstract: A game comprises a playing surface and a set of playing pieces. The playing surface is marked with interlocking closed chains of regular pentagons in side to side abuttment. In the preferred embodiment, pieces having pentagonal portions are assembled on the playing surface to form closed chains. In other embodiments, traditional games such as dominoes and checkers are adapted to the new playing surface. Many such playing surface designs are possible.

Abstract: Game apparatus is disclosed having a top wall with openings for the insertion of pins by two players as called for by indicia on a rotatable signal disc below the top wall but which indicia is visible through openings in the top wall, the pins may fall through the top wall and signal disc as determined by programmed openings in the disc and preferably pass through a counter for delivery by a chute to a return opening for each player, the signal disc being propelled by a spring motor during a predetermined time interval.

Abstract: A board game is described comprising a playing board and a set of playing pieces for each player. The playing board is divided into a rectangular matrix of squares having a central undivided rectangular area which is of such dimensions that the spaces between the outer boundaries of the central area and of the matrix squares are occupied by rows of at least two matrix squares. A set of playing pieces is provided for each player, each set including at least three different types of playing pieces carrying markings indicating different strengths relative to each other. Thus, one type indicates "scissors" which is stronger than the second type indicating "paper", which is stronger than the third type indicating "stone", the third type being in turn stronger than the first type (scissors).

Abstract: A board game includes a board and chance-taking means for determining in random manner the play of game cards. Four separate chance-taking means are included as part of the game apparatus, each chance-taking means dealing with a separate category such as shape, color, number, or letter. A plurality of directional cards are placed at the center of the game board and, when drawn, control the direction of player movements about the board. The board includes indicia indicative of various directions in which player movements can be made. Each player is dealt a plurality of play cards having indicia on their faces representative of different shapes, colors, numbers, and letters. The basic object of the game is to rid oneself of all play cards. By sequential activation of the separate chance-taking means, each player moves to different positions on the board where the taking or discarding of additional cards is required.

Abstract: A game apparatus for use in playing a game which includes a plurality of distinct playing pieces, a game board and dice for determining by chance which pieces are available to be played and where on the game board they may be played.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a board game, the apparatus comprising a board (2) with a playing surface marked with a first array of parallel rows (3) of playing positions (1), and a second array of parallel rows (4) of playing positions (1) extending transversely to the first array of rows (3) and with common playing positions where the rows of the two arrays cross over one another. At least some of the rows (3, 4) are sub-divided by barriers (7) into sections (3, 4) of playing positions (1). Four distinguishable sets of playing pieces are provided, each playing piece having one of a number of different indicia thereon. The indicia are arranged to form a predetermined sequence, the playing pieces of each set having the same group of indicia and at least a majority of the indicia being duplicated in each set.

Abstract: A game for both entertainment and education intended to increase familiarity and facility with binary mathematics and typical logic functions of the type normally carried out by digital computers. Two or more players each select by random chance a succession of binary digits. Instructions for operations to be performed on the digit sequence are likewise selected at random by the players, such operations being of the types typically performed in the arithmetic logic unit of a digital computer. In one embodiment of the invention, each digit in the sequence is temporarily recorded by each player on game board apparatus and is changed in accordance with the operations performed as the game progresses. A wide variety of game rules may be devised for carrying out adversary type games and determining a winner.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes a game board containing an array of playing spaces separated from one another by grooves which run in rank and file order. The game apparatus includes at least two separate sets of playing pieces, which during the game are placed on the spaces and the grooves act as locators or receivers for insertion of projections on the playing pieces. The players may place the playing pieces upon any playing space which is playable and not blocked by a playing piece from another set according to the rules of the game. In an alternate embodiment a second set of projections physically present incorrect placement.

Abstract: A diagnostic educational memory skill game and method for developing, improving, and diagnosing memory skills comprising a game board assembly and cards. The game board assembly includes a game board which has a plurality of player areas with a common area disposed therebetween and extensions of said game board. Each player area comprises a pair of rows of spaces, one row represents the recycling area while the other represents the mastered area. The cards have information printed thereon and comprise question cards, center cards, and bonus cards. When a question card is drawn, a player must answer a question relating to that question card. If his response is correct, the question card is placed in his mastered area; if incorrect, the question card is placed in his recycling area. When a center card is placed in the common area, each question asked relates to the information on both the displayed center card and the question cards drawn.

Abstract: A game apparatus having a hexagonal game board bearing ninety-one smaller identical hexagons; four six-sided die each of different colors representing arbitrary game importance; each die having two equilateral triangles on opposing faces such that each triangle has an apex pointing to a common side and a base parallel to the edge of the face opposite the common side; a set of two squares one of which is placed with its edges parallel to the edges of the face that has two of its edges parallel to the bases of the triangles while the other square is similarly placed on the side opposite its companion square and circles on each of the two remaining sides; and a corresponding set of forty-eight playing pieces for each die.

Abstract: An apparatus for constructing the genealogies of famous and/or noble individuals is disclosed. The device consists of a board or pedigree surface and a series of 63 prism-like structures--one for the subject and one for each of his (her) 62 ancestors over the preceding five generations.Each of these prism-like structures contains nominal information on a particular individual as well as a short biographical sketch or anecdote. Included in the sketch or anecdote is that individual's relationship to one or more members of the family tree. These familial relationships enable users to correctly place ancestors with the aid of certain known points within the pedigree.These known points are board positions which are labeled with the same nominal information as found on the prism-like structures. The great majority of board positions, however, are unlabeled and the proper ancestor for each of these sites must be deduced from familial relationships contained in the biographical sketches.

Abstract: A game board comprises a plurality of adjacent irregularly shaped playing areas, each area having sides in common with at least three other areas. Each of two players, in alternate turns, places chips into areas which are unoccupied and which do not have a common side with an area which is already occupied by a chip belonging to the player then placing a new chip. When it is no longer possible for a player to place a chip according to the above rules, that player places his chip into an area which does have at least one side in common with an area which also contains his chip. After so placing a chip, the player removes his chips from all those areas which have a side in common with that area into which his chip has just been placed. The first player to have only one chip left on the board wins the game.

Abstract: The invention relates to board game apparatus which comprises a surface which is provided with a playing area having an array of playing positions arranged regularly with respect to one another. At least some of the playing positions have one of a number of surface characteristics inscribed thereon. A plurality of playing pieces are used to play the game, each playing piece having one of a different number of shapes each arranged so as to cover, substantially exactly, a different whole number of playing positions on the playing surface.

Abstract: A pair of game boards are used in playing a card game and arranged to show the cards played through the use of a plurality of markers identified with the cards played. The boards are arranged to receive the markers in different colored sections in horizontal and vertical rows. The markers are positioned on the boards by each of the players to indicate the players score as controlled by the play or plays the player may make with the cards that are dealt to or drawn by the player. The markers have different values corresponding with the cards they represent and the players final score is determined by the markers and their positioning on the game boards.

Abstract: This invention relates to a card-type game, called Pot Luck, and apparatus for playing same, that generally utilizes a playing board, simulated money and three decks of cards, one deck being the playing cards. The playing cards are composed of four suits with each suit having a combination of sequentially numbered cards and alphabetic lettered cards of common words. The game tests the mental agility and manual dexterity of the players in stacking the numerical and alphabetical lettered cards in a pre-arranged order. The game may be played by up to eight people of any age combination of approximately 5 years, and older and may be adapted to develop spelling and counting skills.

Abstract: A game requiring (a) two distinguishable sets having the same number of playing pieces, the pieces of each set being of various lengths corresponding to consecutive values in a Fibonacci series, e.g. 1:1:2:3:5:8, and (b) a measure adapted to receive the playing pieces laid end-to-end; and wherein, with each player in turn placing a selected piece so as to form a growing column of pieces laid end-to-end extending along the measure, the objective is to force the other player to cause the column to reach or exceed a chosen marked length on the measure.

Abstract: A board game according to the invention comprises a board with for example, four rows of four playing areas onto which each player in turn places a playing piece until at least four are played. Each player also has a second playing piece or plate which is capable of covering all the playing areas except four, these four being visible through apertures in the plate. If a player sees that he can place the plate over the board to show three of his first playing pieces and one of his opponents, then he scores a point. If he is wrong, the attempt counts as a normal turn in the game which then continues.

Abstract: Game apparatus including a game board having slots simulating the rungs on a ladder. Each rung has indicia associated therewith corresponding to a corporate job category. Chips are selected from a container which bear indicia corresponding to one of the job categories. A sheet provided with the apparatus assigns a monetary value to the chip selected by a player, who notes this amount and places the chip in the corresponding rung of the gameboard. The player who accumulates the highest monetary total at the end of the game is declared the winner. The chips contain indicia determining the number of turns a player may take in selecting chips. By viewing the number of chips previously selected in each category and being advised of the total number of chips available in each category by checking the chip sheet, a player can determine his chance of success in selecting a high value chip.

Abstract: A board game having a housing provided with a window and two openings on opposite sides thereof, a slide mechanism mounted for movement within the housing and provided on the top thereof with a predetermined color-coded pattern for viewing through the window, two bars operatively mounted to move with the slide mechanism and with respect to each other, two wheels mounted to rotate in response to movement of the bars and provided with upstanding posts offset from the centers of rotation of the wheels, an operating handle for moving the slide mechanism and the bars, a plurality of playing pieces for each player, each such playing piece being provided with a flange extending inwardly to prevent the post of the wheel from rotating and indicia, the positions of the flanges of the playing pieces corresponding to the indicia and the color-coded pattern on the slide mechanism in a predetermined manner.

Abstract: A board game comprises in combination a playing board, playing stations marked on the board respectively identified by locating coordinates, a series of station cards to be randomly distributed on the playing stations each station card bearing on its face playing information and manually manipulatable devices bearing coordinate identification symbols for making a chance selection of at least one station locating coordinate.