Game board structure

A supplement sheet for insertion into a newspaper, magazine, or the like and having removable product coupons and a game portion with one or more removable card playing pieces. The game sheet includes indicia defining a game path with a multiplicity of adjoining segments, grid, ladder or the like. The...     

Game apparatus including a game board having a layout with sequential positions defining a path along which a game member is moved in response to the random positioning of a rotary member indicator having a rotary drum mounted horizontally in an open-topped boxlike member, a table incorporating the game...     

A multifunctional outdoor folding chair comprising two generally U-shaped open frames, one major and outer and the other minor and inner, braced pivotally one within the other to support a detachable seat which, in turn, supports pivotally a detachable back panel. The two frames are braced at points...     

Game of the peg-board-type having levered means for ejecting playing piece dowels from predetermined playing surface holes upon the insertion of another playing piece in another predetermined hole of play.

This device is a three dimensional wildcat oil drilling game having a three dimensional game board, the surface of the game board having various identified geograhical sub areas, or sections, each sub area or section having a plurality of perforations therein, a sub stratum device mounted within the...     

A chess board set for appealing particularly to children, the chess board set including a conventional checker or chess board having sixty four checkered spaces, and the set also including a cover for the board which is in the design of a circus tent, the cover in one form being magnetically mountable...     

A game board has an equilateral triangular configuration divided into a plurality of equal minor triangular areas formed by three groups of spaced parallel lines. Each group of lines is parallel to a corresponding side of the game board. Each of the minor triangles has three angle bisecting lines intersecting...     

A game in which the flow of traffic is simulated and in which a game board is imprinted with multiple streets running across the game board from one section to another and also at right angles thereto. The game includes cooperable pieces in the form of cards and game pieces in a unique form and appearance...     

Apparatus for playing a game comprising a base formed with a number of parallel transverse rows to locate individual blocks carrying letters of the alphabet or other markings, a shield, and a further row at the other end of the base to locate a master selection. Alongside the transverse rows are further...     

A downhill ski racing game includes a playing board having a three-dimensional upper portion, wherein a ski route having a pair of paths is disposed on the upper surface of the upper portion, wherein each path is formed from a plurality of contiguous squares. A pair of dice are provided as well as chance...     

Apparatus for playing a game including playing pieces and a playing device, the playing device including an upper board having spaced holes, a lower board spaced from the upper board, and playing piece supporting elements positioned between the upper and lower boards with the supporting elements being...     

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...     

A board game comprising a multiple layer game board the top two layers of which are separable but maintained in registration and several sets of playing pieces, each set distinguishable from the other. The top layer is transparent and has an array of playing positions marked on it. The second layer carries...     

A game is provided in which tokens are moved according to the throw of a die through a number of obstacles on a path from the point of a shipwreck to shore. Adjacent the path of travel is a three dimensional fish whose jaws may be manually moved toward a closed position by rotating its dorsal fin. Playing...     

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...     

A game board having opposed parallel major surfaces including a plurality of playing fields in row and column array is disclosed. The playing fields are mounted on a mesh formed of mutually perpendicular elongated support members interconnected to provide a plurality of generally square openings in which...     

A game which can be played by two or more players wherein each player receives an individual game set having a storage box containing three groups of building blocks, the blocks of each group being of the same configuration. The cover of the storage box serves as the gameboard for that player, and includes...     

Apparatus for playing a game comprising a base or body formed with large numbers of small apertures or windows (13), and means for displaying selected visible markings in the various windows. In one example there are a number of rotatable elements (12,44,41) located in the case, one below each window,...     

A chess game apparatus is provided having a playing board of tray-like construction and a number of playing pieces of cube-shape which are cooperatively and selectively interarranged to form both the playing surface and the game pieces. The apparatus game board includes a supporting surface having a...     

A game including a game box, the bottom of which forms the playing field which is of checkerboard configuration having five rows and five columns of checkerboard squares. Two similar sets of playing pieces are provided with each set being distinguishingly identified from the other. Each set includes...     

A game apparatus based on a sea monster theme includes a rotatably mounted platform defining a plurality of positions for the placement of playing pieces by the players of the game. A retrieving mechanism is randomly actuated by rotation of the platform causing a movable element, simulating a sea monster,...     

An amusement game that has a flat board with a central pair of axes providing a fulcrum and spaces on either side of the axes. Playing pieces of different weights are received in respective openings in the spaces and the fulcrum is elevated to allow tilting of the board in either direction when the pieces...     

A portable combination recreational product assembly and conventional container designed and configured primarily in the structure of a briefcase or like conventional container, wherein the product assembly is formed in a predetermined portion of the interior of the housing of the briefcase or conventional...     

A board game for two or more players in which the board has a playing area comprising two sets of parallel rows, the intersection of the rows defining regions for receiving playing pieces (preferably balls). The playing pieces in a row in which all its receiving regions are occupied are movable together...     

A table game set has two player's boards with vertical and horizontal lines thereon to form squares and playing pieces of types having a straight line, a T-shaped line, an L-shaped line or crossed lines drawn on different pieces. Two players sit face-to-face with the set between them and compete to form...     

Game apparatus comprising a first polyhedronal body suitably in the form of a tetrahedronal pyramid and a second polyhedronal body suitably in the form of a tetrahedronal pyramid are interconnected in spaced parallel relationship by an elongate member which extends through the vertices of and which is...     

A gameboard which has a circular path defined thereon for a tortoise with a guide ring to guide the circular travel path of the tortoise. In addition, a tortuous path is provided for movement of rabbits. The tortuous path is composed of plural sections or spaces of different colors, the path also including...     

A game is provided in which individual playing pieces are moved incrementally along an elongated rectangular game board, according to the random throw of a die. The game board in the form and position of an elongated movable strip and is mechanically self-retracted continuously into a fixed body in the...     

Apparatus for playing an auction sale game comprises letters of an alphabet and imitation money or the like, the game being played by two or more players who bid for letters auction-wise, the object being to acquire letters for word-making and the winner being the player who, on completion of the game,...     

A new chess-like board game consists of a checkerboard having rows and columns of bilaterally colored dark and light squares. The squares in the respective rows and columns are an odd number, not less than five. All of the dark squares on the board bear indicators pointing in the same direction aligned...     

A casino type game of chance consists of a game board formed in two layers with elongated cubicles therebetween for receiving cards that can be mixed by a game operator and passed through to the other side to a player to select the cards for play. The surface of the game board consists of a suitable...     

The specification of the present invention discloses a game board apparatus which allows two parties to efficiently play numerous games in which both parties move simultaneously and the observation of the opponent's playing surface is limited. The apparatus includes two parallel upright members with...     

This game consists primarily of a plurality of stands having vertically extending pegs, for receiving plastic coated discs, which are magnetic. Each player selects the color desired, in pegs, stands and discs, and the object of the game is for one player to win all of the opponents' discs. The discs,...     

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...     

A combination toy vehicle and book, which also serves as a container for the toy, is formed by imprinting a multiplicity of uniformly sized pages with scenes upon which a user may operate the toy vehicle. By cutting out an identical region of each page, and by binding the pages together along one side,...     

An oil exploration game including a box-shaped game board with an upper playing surface and lower supporting surface with a rotatable cam located between such surfaces and having reremovably mounted game pieces some of which are operatively connected to the rotatable cam and further including information...     

This game is unique, in that it will simulate the disasters and excitement of an earthquake, and it is competitive in play. It consists primarily of a board with positions to be played on, and a multiple number of simulated building structures may be placed on four squares that represent cities. It further...     

A board game apparatus includes a housing having a playing surface defined thereon. A plurality of spaced playing piece receiving apertures are arranged in a pattern on the playing surface. A playing piece support surface is arranged beneath the playing surface to support one or more playing pieces,...     

A variable geometric board game playable by two or more persons. The game utilizes the six sides of a cube as playing surfaces. The cube is constructed from articulated subcubes that can be rotated about each of three mutually perpendicular axes for changing the playing surfaces. Each of the subcubes...     

A horizontal rectangularly shaped plate has a flat top surface which is enclosed by a transparent raised cover. A plurality of raised members hemispherically shaped are secured to the top surface in equidistantly spaced positions and extend upward being disposed below the inner surface of the cover....     

This invention provides an electronic maze game apparatus. The basic invention comprises a display board, optical discrete display elements (such as LCDs or LEDs) forming a grid on the display board, and electronic control for the selective display of the optical display elements so that a maze pattern...     

A novel chess box comprising a main body portion having a magnet at its center, a lid hinged on the main body portion, a pair of containers each pivoted on the main body portion and provided with a sheet iron, a positioning plate removably mounted on the main body portion, a number of boards for various...     

An instructional chess game comprises a square playing board of laminated construction having sixty-four individual playing squares each of which is formed centrally with a substantially square recess, all squares "black" and "white" in accordance with traditional contrasting squares configuration, such...     

A reversible playing and/or performing area having at least one reversible tray which has separately utilizable opposing plane surfaces. The tray has a bottom and shallow sides. The outer surface of the bottom of the tray provides a first playing surface. The space of the tray defined by the inner surfaces...     

A board game which is capable of being used in conjunction with a known standard or conventional board game and will thereby provide expanded and more complex game play is presented. The present invention is particularly well suited for those conventional board games having adjacent spaces along the...     

A game which simulates the trading of financial futures and its applications. The game apparatus includes a chart which provides the necessary market information for given instruments for a 20-day playing period, plus the preceding five days, with only a portion of the chart visible to the players on...     

A game is played by two teams of two players who are positioned about the four sides of a rotatable playing board. The play area of each player is shielded from the others by four vanes which extend radially at 90.degree. spacings from a shaft mounted on the playing board. The board, shaft and vanes...     

A game comprising a game board having at least a pair of substantially identical playing surfaces, one for each game player, with each playing surface positioned so that the playing surface for any one game player is obscured from the view of all other game players, and a plurality of playing pieces....     

A board game using an elevated board (20) having fourteen rows (22), each of fourteen holes (24), so as to total ninety-six holes. The board is divided into four quarters (21), each of forty-nine holes, by lines (23) into which two to four players play in turn, by placing colored playing pieces (48)...     

A coon hunters night hunt game that simulates an outdoor racoon hunt is provided and consists of a game board in which at the end of the game the first player to accumulate 1,000 points and have ownership of three dogs win. In a modified form each hound dog playing piece has a built in stop mechanism...     

A game apparatus comprising at least one concave polyhedron playing piece and a game board. The concave polyhedron playing piece has a plurality of differently colored faces. Each of the faces comprises a plurality of similarly colored facets. The concave polyhedron also comprises a plurality of vertices...     

A soft-sculptured, game board doll (10) includes a three-dimensional body portion (12) and removable hair (14), feet (16) and nose (18). A plurality of color markers (54) are selectively registrable over corresponding color areas (52) disposed about body (12). A plurality of different game boards (60),...     

A multi-stepped gameboard apparatus which is preferably made in a checkerboard design and divided into separate sections constructed in monotonic steps. The sections may be arranged in a variety of configurations to form a "mountain", "valley", or mixed mountain-valley configuration. Furthermore, the...     

An amusement device is provided, including a square base having a path formed thereon made substantially of movable projections, each projection including a plurality of plateaus; a first, small figure resembling a human or animal which is manually movable about the path; a plurality of loose members...     

A game in which all of the pieces, while movable for play, are captured against removal and loss from the game. Player movable pieces are received for movement along slots extending through the thickness of a playing surface but are captured by upper and lower enlargements against removal. Discreet positional...     

This invention relates generally to a game board having a particular novel layered construction. In place of a conventional solid chipboard laminated construction, an undulated midstratum layer is utilized in such manner that air cells or pockets are formed within the structure. An overlayer and an underlayer...     

A docket diary game is provided and consists of a board game that allows each player to choose one season out of the year and answer questions based on each day of the months during that season. The first player to correctly answer questions for seven days out of each of three months in his/her season...     

A promotional game particularly adapted for use in connection with packaged food products, the game including a plurality of specially constructed game cards. Each game card consists of a transparent film laminate on which is imprinted a set of game indicia, which will vary from card to card. The card...     

A relatively simple, easy to play oil exploration game includes a rectangular parallelepipedic casing with a bottom drawer in one end thereof for carrying the game pieces. A horizontal bottom wall extends between the sides and ends of the casing defining a cover for the drawer. A plurality of partitions...     

A promotional game particularly adapted for use in connection with packaged food products, the game including a game board preferably printed on the product container and one or more game cards. The game board has imprinted on it a first set of game indicia which is common to all packages utilized in...     

A novel word game is disclosed having a generally planar game board with an intersecting grid pattern formed therein. Playing pieces for the game are formed as individual tile members with a letter of the alphabet on the upper surface thereof and projections on the bottom surface thereof for engaging...     

A multi-level board game is set forth wherein a pair of players each are protective of their individual castle or "Keep". Each player is provided with a plurality of tokens representing Vassals, a Wizard, a plurality of Archers, and an Earthstone. The object of the game is to travel the board game from...     

A game carrying case convertible to a game board includes two identical half sections, symmetrical in construction and doweling. The two sections can be adapted to house the playing pieces in the carrying case configuration. The sections can also be oriented so that when section one and section two are...     

A property dealing game that is played in two phases requires the players to acquire properties without always actually knowing the intrinsic value of the property. Cards are provided which, in combination with one or more properties, make the property worth more than its intrinsic value to a player...     

The present invention is specifically designed as an outdoor game apparatus for use in such areas as sandy beaches and grassy parks wherein the game is laid out on the ground surface and secured in place by peg members. The game consists of a group of cord members that are connected and woven together....     

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...     

A game of checkers wherein the individual game pieces take the form of small drinking glasses. Each glass is filled with the same quantity of liquid, which may be soda pop or another similar beverage. When a player jumps his filled glass over one of the opponent's glasses he is permitted to drink the...     

A game board and game pieces for playing a game of skill and chance, using dice and marbles. The game board has a raised playing surface with peripheral double tracks and cross shaped inner tracks. Troughs are located in the depressions defined by the quadrants between the peripheral double tracks and...     

A multi-use number board including a board having a series of substantially square raised surfaces or lands arranged in rows and columns on the top surface of the board and separated by an array of substantially perpendicular channels, and including holes at the intersections of the channels; the pegs...     

A color-crayons and board games combination set, which comprises a case formed of two pivoted parts for receiving different chessboards and pieces. The two pivoted parts have each a track on its back side around its periphery so that different chessboards can be drawn out and then pushed back into place....     

A board game for simulating a white-water rafting course wherein two or more players attempt to be the first to reach the finish line. A game board is utilized that depicts a white water stream divided into a plurality of spaces with game pieces in the form of rafts being moved along the spaces according...     

A game comprises a frame and a plurality of independently rotatable members held captive, in play, in the frame, wherein the rotatable members are set in a predetermined array and each is provided with a plurality of surface markings which define distinct, independently distinguishable rotational settings...     

An illuminating peg board game 20 is provided including peg 58 and 60 having numerically identified electrical sockets 64 formed therein. Each socket 64 is provided to activate a light illuminating peg 66 when placed in the socket. Some of the pegs illuminate a constant light when activated while the...     

A game comprising board apparatus and dice is taught for simulating the well known outdoor game of horseshoe pitching. To play the game each of two players drops two color-coded dice down a chute onto a board where indicia on the upper surface of each resting die indicates one of a set of possible results...     

A three level game board made up of a lowermost level, a middle level, and an uppermost level. The playing area of the lowermost level is made up of four stepped pyramidal shaped component playing areas each of which, when the game board is set up for its intended use, lies entirely outboard of the playing...     

Disclosed is a board game which has, as a theme, various aspects of the recent war in the Middle East involving the United States, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The game board has a path with a plurality of spaces which are traveled by the players responsive to a chance device. Each player receives a number...     

A race game includes an oval track structure arranged with a plurality of contiguous concentric tracks, wherein the tracks each include a plurality of spaces. The game includes tokens and die members, and wherein each of the spaces is formed with contrasting enumeration in associated with the die members,...     

A financial game includes a circuitous path, including various bonus and penalty spaces directed therethrough, with each of the game path spaces of the circuitous path arranged in association with a company and associated stock, wherein individuals decide to either buy or not buy certain stocks, wherein...     

A board game box comprising two base frames made from a plastic material through the process of injection molding and pivotably connected with each other by hinges, said base frames each having an opening at the middle, a groove around said opening and a plurality of projecting strips transversely projecting...     

A tournament fishing game apparatus is arranged to accommodate a plurality of players, with the players directed along a game path formed with varying first and second spaces, wherein the first spaces direct a player to select a card from a pile of fish cards and credited with the catch indicated thereon,...     

An amusement game is formed with a serpentine path formed of various segments. The segments include various hazards, wherein locomotion tool structure is arranged to direct token discs along various top surfaces of the segments, whereupon displacement of the predetermined top surfaces of the discs relative...     

A marble game including a stationary top board having a plurality of spaced apart game holes to define a game path. A rotatable bottom board includes a plurality of randomly spaced apart sink holes for aligning with the game holes. A marble positioned in a game hole aligned with a sink hole falls through...     

An action board game apparatus includes an inclined game board having openings therein, game pieces mountable on the game board partially through selected ones of the openings and capable of being pushed through the openings upon application of a sufficient predetermined force on an upper portion of...     

The invention is a two-player board game in which the object is to occupy four adjacent spaces in a row. The gameboard is a configuration of four concentric circles divided by four lines to create 32 game spaces. The game is won by getting four adjacent spaces occupied in a row. Adjacent spaces being...     

The invention relates to a board game typically including counters, playing pieces, pawns or the like. The playing pieces are placed of the board and moved across the board in accordance with the play of the game wherein the game board is comprised of at least two sections, one of which has an aperture....     

A picture puzzle assembling platform, that includes at least two inclined panels, symmetrically arranged around a central axis, such that a person can sit facing each panel to assemble a puzzle, from pieces placed on a table surface in front of the panel. Preferably, each person assembles a different...     

A new and improved educational board game is disclosed that employs dice, personal markers, a plurality of two-sided game cards, and a game board. The game board includes indicia, a portion of which corresponds to different levels of difficulty of a predetermined educational category such as history,...     

Game for a plurality of players, including a game board having a path made up of a plurality of squares, and playing pieces are moved along the path according to numbers produced by dice thrown. Beginning signals are given by a color light (traffic light) member. Similar color lights are indicated on...     

A rotatable betting device is provided for a card game which consists of a turntable assembly to sit upon a flat surface. A plurality of cups are radially positioned about the turntable assembly, so that each card player can conveniently place bets by inserting chips into their respective cup during...     

A folding game board is provided which consists of a unitary thin plastic member divided into segments by at least one pair of parallel grooves having nadirs separated by a zenith. Each folding segment has one or more ridges on its face, preferably at least two of them in non-parallel planes perpendicular...     

A housing having a top wall of a chess board pattern is arranged to selectively receive groupings of chess pieces configured in representative relationship to a respective category of sports to include football, hockey, baseball, and basketball. A transparent laminate web is arranged for selective mounting...     

A signage assembly useful for the tabletop display of an advertising message. The assembly includes a holder comprised of an upright into which the insert may be removably inserted and a base for supporting the upright upon the tabletop. An interactive device for engaging an observer, preferably in the...     

A board game includes an enclosure having a playing surface containing a plurality of squares in an array, wherein each of said squares is a trap door. The squares on each half of a centerline across the surface are controlled by control panels on opposite sides of the enclosure. Each control panel has...     

A square multi-tiered game board primarily for use in the games of chess and checkers which includes a plurality of upward facing, parallel, horizontal tiers, each said tier enclosing a center space therebetween. The tiers are arranged in internally descending order starting at the upper and outermost...     

A folding lap top game table is provided for two persons seated side by side and has a pair of flat, rigid rectangular panels joined together along mutually abutting straight interior edges. The lap table is provided with a raised ridge extending across its front and along its lateral side edges. The...     

A recycling game apparatus includes a toy vehicle having a plurality of bins for holding game pieces and having a card caddy thereon. A deck of cards is supported in the toy vehicle card caddy along with a plurality of game pieces with each game piece having a shaped emulative of a recycling member and...     

An apparatus useful in a board game which requires one or more players to reach a conclusion, such as a treasure, based on collected clues, which includes two boards which are movable relative to each other. The upper board includes a number of openings and also includes markings to facilitate movement...     

This invention provides an inexpensive, easy to manufacture, stiff, two-axis collapsible, repeatably markable/erasable, lightweight game board. The game board is comprised of segments loosely attached to one or more fasteners. Upon expansion said segments interlock and maintain the game board shape.

In a preferred embodiment, a football game simulation apparatus, including: a game board; indicating apparatus disposed in said game board to indicate a quarter of a football game being simulated; scoring apparatus disposed in said game board to indicate scores of teams playing the football game being...     

The present invention relates to a game board device, more specifically to a chessboard game device having self-setting capability for its game pieces. Disclosed are five different embodiments of chessboard game devices having the capability of automatically setting-up chess pieces on their chessboards....