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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7748713 | Method and apparatus for game play A gaming apparatus for allowing players to explore decisions made in response to changing circumstances and to engage with the contradictions of competing needs. The gaming apparatus comprises a game board and game pieces. The game board is divided into an inner pla... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7641196 | Board game A game and method including providing a game board having a plurality of nodes, a source node for each player and a plurality of playing pieces. Each piece has multiple states and represents each state. The game is played by starting the playing pieces via a single ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7290766 | Three dimensional piece alignment game A game including a playing area divided into a plurality of spaces, and sets of game pieces with each set associated with different players or teams. The players or teams execute strategically selected instructions, such as move, stack and flip, to position their ga... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7255347 | Apparatus for playing a game A game includes a board (10) having a start position (30) and at least two possible finish positions (31). A number of sequential positions (35, 36, 37, 38, 39) are located between the start position (30) and the possible finish po... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252290 | Game method and apparatus A game method and apparatus includes an elongated game board having a platform attached to each of two ends. The game board pivots on a fulcrum in a seesaw type fashion. The game board can be adjustably attached to the fulcrum to compensate for the weight differenti... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7247075 | Golden rhombic pyramid-shaped building blocks This invention is a set of magnetic building blocks. Each block or piece in the set is in the shape of a right golden rhombic pyramid. There are two important fixed proportions that dictate each block's shape. The first is that the pyramid's base is a golden rhombus... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7156395 | Table game A table game has a center piece and a plurality of end pieces that removably attach to the center piece. Each player has chips and takes turns depositing the chips in the end pieces around the board. When the last deposit made by a player makes a special color combi... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155851 | Collection holder The present invention provides a collection holder which allows a plurality of collection pieces of given shapes to be attached thereto for display. The collection holder is for mounting thereto the collection pieces of given shapes, being formed in a polyhedron wit... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7114723 | OCTATRIX™ —strategy game apparatus and method of play An octahedron-shaped game structure is disclosed for playing a three-dimensional strategy game. A plurality of cubes is introduced to configure the shape of octahedron and two sets of game pieces are provided. The preferred embodiment of the game structure has an ar... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7114721 | Pattern formation board game A pattern formation board game and method of play are presented. The present invention includes a board having a play area with a plurality of overlapping substantially circular patterns thereon. Circular patterns are composed of a plurality of interlocking spaces i... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7086645 | Game with collectible pieces The present invention provides a game including a playing surface, collectible playing pieces, marking pieces, and collectible cards. Players take turns trying to create specific hands by throwing the playing pieces. The first player to successfully claim ownership ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7036820 | Football board game and method of playing A football board game and method of playing are disclosed. The football caricatures are provided on a chess-like board with each caricature having designated to it chess-like maneuvers. Scoring and methods of winning are also disclosed. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7029010 | Game of donuts The invention is a combined card, dice, and peg board game which 3 to 6 players can play. It consists of one peg board with two start/finish lines, two separate start/finish areas, and four pegging tracks within the outline of the game's name. On each pegging track ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7014190 | Board game with movable neutral playing pieces Board games having movable neutral playing pieces. The board games include tokens that represent each player's location on the board and neutral playing pieces that may be moved by any player to block an opponent's token movement. In some embodiments, the neutral pl... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6994344 | Historical war game with flat soldiers and method of playing it The game is conducted on a flat surface, for example, a floor, with flat pieces which depict warriors, war animals, standards, weaponry, military equipment and fortifications, each typical to a corresponding historical period. The opposing players take turns during ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6962337 | Gaming method and apparatus A method and apparatus for gaming that arranges and uses numbers on its game board in a manner consistently with the first several rows of Pascal's Triangle. The gaming method and apparatus includes the use of tokens or chips that bear indicia corresponding to the s... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6957812 | Color-linked miniature game apparatus The present invention includes an apparatus that can be used for easily relating properties of a miniature to an off-miniature reference. Because the game properties are off the miniature, there is unlimited space available for tracking them. ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955355 | Board game with nesting pieces A board game is disclosed, said game including a board having at least nine squares arranged in three rows of three squares each. In a first preferred embodiment, each player receives six pieces arranged in two stacks of differentially sized and nested pieces, three... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6871854 | Strategic board game A strategic board game includes a game board formed with forty-two positioning spaces for placing game pieces. The positioning spaces include first to seventh positioning spaces located on a common circular line and angularly spaced apart from each other such that e... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6827349 | Billiard table A table includes a bank and a panel, wherein a plurality of ball positions are evenly arranged into equilateral concentric hexagons in the panel, a bank is positioned around the panel, a plurality of holes are configured in the inner wall of the bank and in the boar... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6712359 | Game apparatus and method of play A game involving simultaneous moves by opposing players comprises a game board having separate lanes extending in discreet steps from starting positions to ending positions. Player controlled linked gates control movement along the lanes. Players simultaneously sele... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6659464 | GridBloc strategy game A GridBloc strategy game. The present invention employs a runner and a blocker within any number of various GridBloc boards. The runner is operable to move throughout the GridBloc board, and the blocker who tries to oppose the movement of the runner throu... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6588753 | Method of playing a variation of checkers board game A variation on checkers style games wherein each player has an initial holding of twelve playing pieces. The board includes an array of four columns and eight rows of playing locations, wherein one playing location may be occupied by only one playing piec... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6578848 | Game with moveable play space A game with moveable play space. The invention allows any user playing the game to modify the play space at any number of given times and in response to any number of different conditions. Certain spaces (tiles or blocks) within the play space are wildcar... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6543771 | Board game An educational board game includes a game board that has a plurality of spaces marked on a surface of the game board. The spaces include a pair of win spaces, a start space, and a plurality of medial spaces divided between a pair of tracks. Each of the tr... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6536765 | Marble game A marble game includes a game board in the form of a cruciform and requires a player to move marbles around a board, or to and from a center location. Each player is provided with five marbles and the first player to move all five marbles either to and fr... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6478300 | Checker-type game for four players A checkers game for four players is disclosed, in which each player commencing with six checkers in an assigned quadrant of a conventional checkers board. The checkers are converted to super-monarchs having superior powers with a double riser piece or to ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6311977 | Apparatus and method for playing a matching game The present invention reveals a game for utilizing common knowledge and the English language to match the answers of one's teammates to the word or phrase given on a match card. The number of possible answers is endless as there is no right or wrong answe... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6293549 | Game set beast-of-prey hunt A set for a hunting-a-beast-prey game including two square boards each having twenty-five playing fields and four additional playing fields provided outside of the square defining the twenty-five playing fields, and two times twenty-nine playing figures c... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6273420 | Electronic maze game The maze game consists of a plurality of horizontal segments and a plurality of vertical segments that define a two-dimensional array of m×m squares or spaces where the size m is selectable by the user. In each potential segment location the present inve... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6267376 | Trivia game A trivia game includes a game board having a plurality of linear playing paths extending from one end of the board to the other, and a plurality of question and response cards each having a series of questions of differing levels of difficulty and corresp... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6213466 | Crash-action, vehicle racing game and method A car racing game simulates a real racing event involving car crashes that help determine the winner of the race. Opposing cars line up at opposite ends of racing lanes and advance generally toward each other. The cars have wheels and roll along the lanes... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6196545 | Simple chess-type board game for two, three, and four players A board game apparatus and method of playing a game with the apparatus by two, three, or four players is provided. The board game apparatus consists of a game board and four distinguishable playing sets, one for each player. The game board has only forty-... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6176486 | Board game A board game for entertaining players of the game. The board game includes a playing surface with a center region and a generally rectangular outer perimeter. The playing surface has a plurality of starting space sets, each positioned towards a corner of ... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6170825 | Dual level board game and method of play Dual hexagon shaped playing fields composed of smaller hexagons of two different colors vertically separated for visibility with each player starting with the same number of three different shaped playing pieces with each piece being limited differently i... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6168159 | Apparatus and method for playing a matching game The present invention reveals a game for utilizing common knowledge and the English language to match the answers of one's teammates to the word or phrase given on a match card. The number of possible answers is endless as there is no right or wrong answe... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6062562 | Board game method of play Provided herein is a novel method of game play utilizing a two-dimensional board having spaces arranged in orthogonal rows and columns in two alternating contrasting colors. Two dice are used as a chance element. Each player is assigned 12 ordinary pieces... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6032956 | Board game A board game includes a board having on a surface thereof a pattern of squares. The squares are arranged in parallel rows extending between the sides of the board and extending substantially parallel to and between the ends of the board. Several of the ro... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5464224 | Board game apparatus and method of play A game board includes a field defining an m by n array of playing spaces arranged in rows and columns on the field and a plurality of edge regions, wherein each edge region is disposed between a corresponding pair of adjacent playing spaces and wherein vi... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5366226 | Math game A math game having a game board with a plurality of defined spaces comprising goals. Some of the goals have goal playing math indicia associated with such goals. The math game includes playing pieces and each playing piece has a playing math indicia assoc... | 11/22/1994 |
