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| 20120126478 | Gameboard for playing modified version of chess or checkers A game of chess or checkers played on a gameboard having a checkerboard pattern formed by alternating light and dark colored squares; and having a fully extended form (five vertical rows and eight horizontal rows) and a modified form (five vertical rows and six horizont... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20110221131 | Method of Playing a Game A method for playing a game of strategy and skill in which players move hunter pieces on a playing surface having an array of playing spaces, with each player designating one playing space as a treasure space. On each turn, a player may move his hunter piece or place a ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110198806 | Board Game A board game and methods for playing the same are disclosed. The board game can include a playing surface having a plurality of playing spaces, and a plurality of playing pieces that comprise at least first and second player playing pieces, wherein each playing piece is... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110169220 | Combination delivery box and board game A combination food delivery box and game board includes a foldable cardboard delivery box, preferably a pizza delivery box, having a box bottom and a box top pivotally attached to the box bottom with both the bottom and the top having surfaces on which are imprinted gam... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110127720 | TOWER: 3D CHESS PLATFORM Whereas prior art inventions had sets with widely spaced and fixed boards, this invention—for playing chess and its variants in the third dimension; has seventeen interlocking, interchangeable, rotating, revolving parts. When fully constructed the several parts forms ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110049804 | Alteration on chess facilitating stacking This invention is an alteration on the ancient game of chess and allows for the stacking of various pieces upon each other. This stacking of pieces upon each other enables the combined pieces (called a stack) to move as a cohesive whole with either the combined movement... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100327528 | MODIFIED CHESS GAME A chess-like game having pieces and rules similar to conventional chess but which includes a new piece having powers and limitations not present in conventional chess pieces.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100109242 | Nisus This invention is a board game that is a chess variant played on the same board of sixty-four squares as a chess board and each player has sixteen moveable pieces. This is a nonconvention chess piece set, wherein the pieces of the nonconventional chess piece set perform... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100096805 | CUSTOMIZABLE GAME DEVICES A game board device can be customizable with displayable objects. An exemplary game board device can comprise a game board panel, a playing area, and a carrying system. The game board panel can be a base for the game board device and can comprise at least one window. Th... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100072703 | Modified Chess Game An extended chess game comprising a board divided into a first area, the Spirit World, consisting of all squares on the border forming a square ring and a second area, the Cardinal World, consisting of all the squares enclosed by the Spirit World. The pieces comprise co... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100032903 | BOARD GAME WITH SCISSORS, ROCK, AND PAPER PIECES WHICH ARE FACED DOWN AT THE START OF GAME A board game includes a chessboard having squares arranged in a pattern on the chessboard; and pieces adapted to place on the squares respectively, each piece having a no-mark face-up side and a face-down side with either of diagonal lines or a grid of lines being print... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090322026 | LED Chess Set In a light emitting diode (LED) chess set, when a chess piece of the chess set is placed on a chessboard, a power supply element in the chessboard will supply power to an LED in the chess piece to emit light, so that the chess piece gives a light emitting effect. When a... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090230622 | LAMP CHESS MODULE A chess piece is embedded with a light unit; a central lead and peripheral lead are made on its bottom. A chess board comprises a top electrode plate and a bottom electrode place. The top electrode plate has a plurality holes where the central leads electrically couples... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090127787 | Dual game with chess A game set for use in a combination of a chess game and a card game. This combination game provides a more challenging game not achievable by playing only the chess game or only the card game. The cards in the card game are laid on the chessboard face down and both game... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090096163 | Board game A method of playing a chess-like board game with four players. The method includes the providing of a game board having a primary grid of one-hundred forty-four playing spaces arranged as a square surrounded by four secondary grids each having sixteen playing spaces and... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090058003 | Combination delivery box and board game A combination food delivery box and game board includes a foldable cardboard delivery box, preferably a pizza delivery box, having a box bottom and a box top pivotally attached to the box bottom with both the bottom and the top having surfaces on which are imprinted gam... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090020949 | DUAL GAME WITH CHESS A combination of a chess game and a card game provides a more challenging game not achievable by playing only the chess game or only the card game. The cards in the card game are laid on the chessboard face down and both games are played simultaneously with some changes... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080237983 | PORTABLE ROBOTIC BOARD GAME PLAYING SYSTEM A portable robotic board game playing system is disclosed, which comprises: a chessboard unit; a fetching unit and a control unit. The chessboard unit is composed of a board frame and a plurality of game pieces. The fetching unit is movable for grasping any one of the p... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080224398 | Teaching Arithmetic Operations Using Geometric Chess Symbols A chess set in which each chess symbol is respectively created according to its directional mobility permitted. The orientation indicator is diverging about a center point directed by geometric line, line segment or ray to its relevant square on a chess board.... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080197569 | Inverse Chess This invention describes a game of inverse chess, with a pre-identified start position, and end position and arbitered moves chosen amongst a set of possible moves, played between two opponents on a chess board. This differs from normal chess in that it is played backwa... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080169604 | Military Chess and Playing Method For Said Game The group of the invention relates to table games using the playing board of two levels, the lower one being made in the form of a chessboard. The upper level of the playing board is formed by individual supports for each piece in the form of aviation combat equipment m... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080157470 | Varied and Various-Colored Board Game Set The object of the present invention is to provide a board game, of which rules can be flexibly set and easily understood by beginners. The solution is a varied and various-colored board game set comprising a varied and various-colored board and pieces. The varied and va... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080122175 | Ergonomic framework for Chinese and Western chess pieces The ergonomic framework resembles a pyramid but with small rectangular peak (2), large rectangular base (8), two large isosceles trapezoid surface (5a) and (5b) on two side symmetrically face away from each other, and two small ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080116636 | Casino chess game A chess game set is disclosed which contains a chess board, said chess board comprising a harlequin pattern of eight by eight alternately colored square spaces with four additional rows of eight alternately colored square spaces adjacent each side of the main playing ar... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080093802 | Method of playing a game The present invention relates to a method of playing a game conventionally based purely on skill comprising the steps of:
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| 20080061504 | Sudoku board game and method of play A Sudoku board game and method of playing the same for keeping track of candidate numbers. The game board includes a grid of squares and a plurality of predetermined positions within each square. Each of the predetermined positions comprises a hole extending into the ga... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080048395 | Board game A method of playing a chess-like board game with four players. The method includes the providing of a game board having a primary grid of one-hundred forty-four playing spaces arranged as a square surrounded by four secondary grids each having sixteen playing spaces and... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080012220 | Configurable board game A configurable board game where playing pieces are played on a game board's playing surface and a circumstantial change is played on peripheral ledges. A position of one or more playing pieces on the peripheral ledges determines game play within the game board. Game boa... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070296149 | Three dimensional chess game A method for playing a two-level chess game on apparatus comprising, upper and lower spaced apart congruent traditional chess boards with traditional sets of chessmen positioned for chess play respectively on the first two rows of opposing sides of the lower chess board... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070273095 | CHESSBOARD DEVICE WITH AUTO-ELECTRONIC SCORING A chessboard device with auto-electronic scoring at least provides a display component to generate at least a light, a color and a figure once an induction switch device is pressed, touched or felt. The central processing unit (CPU) of a microcomputer is capable of dist... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070235929 | Collapsible game board and case A collapsible game board having a plurality of rectangular shaped sections joined side by side at a lengthwise edge by a flexible member. The flexible member enables the sections to be folded into a generally rectangular shape with a hollow cavity therethrough. A plural... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070216095 | FOLDABLE BODY WITH MAGNETS AND OBJECT COLLECTOR A single piece body foldable along hinges between a three-dimensional generally closed configuration and a generally rectangular two-dimensional configuration. The body includes a plurality of components. The components are foldably interconnected through lateral and lo... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070216101 | Game Table Assembly And Method Utilizing Game table (10) includes four upstanding legs (12) that mount a plurality of construction panels referred to as side panels or end panels. First end panels (14) and first side panels (16) extend between pairs of adjacent legs (12) to s... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070194529 | Board game A flexible game board and carrying pouch for holding game playing pieces and the game board itself which is easily deployed for playing and compactly restorable within the carrying pouch. The game board is formed of a flexible sheet defining a game board face for receiv... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070176362 | BOARD GAME The present invention is a board game. In a preferred embodiment, a competitive board game for two to nine players is disclosed. The game board is initialized by placing markers on the game board in a specified fashion. Distinct markers are distributed, and play progres... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070176361 | Gameboard, games played on board and methods of play requiring strategy and luck A game of skill and chance for two, a game board, and method for play requires a chess board imprinted with an alternating pattern of card suites, a set of chess pieces, and euchre cards. Play follows chess rules, euchre rules, and a new set of rules. In one embodiment ... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070126179 | Betting chess and methods of play The present invention provides a chess game that integrates betting into the game and also introduces elements of chance into the game. In particular, the present invention provides a chess game which integrates betting into a pre-game portion of the game and/or during ... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070114722 | Board Game Named Tora “Tora” is a classical strategy board game, constructed as a two-tiered, three-pronged, battlefield simulation. Using 7, 27 or 28 classical pieces at their disposal, players have the option to contend on a limited (9×9) or expanded (17×17) field of contest to deter... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070114721 | Method and manufacture for text and illustration checkerboard design This invention describes methods for the design of checkerboards comprising two or more square patterns, one pattern being characterized by the predominant use of illustration, the second pattern being characterized by the predominant use of text. The invention also des... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070114720 | Chess set for the blind A chess set for blind players. The board includes squares having different tactile patterning to distinguish different colors. Each square contains a hole extending through the board. A border includes indicia, both visual and tactile, to indicate the file and rank. The... | 05/24/2007 |
