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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4784387 | Game A game is provided for educational and recreational use which includes an outer housing with a cut out opening, having a main drive gear and a plurality of ball control gears around the cut out. A spring impelled pop up plate is provided within the housin... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4761010 | Board game A game of serial falling playing pieces with a game board having a plurality of rows of game spaces thereon of varying configuration with a plurality of game pieces for positioning on said game board.... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4754979 | Polygons game This disclosure is a game played with colored chips, which when played on a game board or flat surface, one chip at a time, create for each consecutive of two or more players, with his specific color chips, patterns of number, letters, or geometric design... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4741539 | Board game relating to personality traits A board game comprising a playing board of general hexagonal configuration, the playing area being divided into six triangular areas each representing a trait of the personality and each triangular area being divided into contiguous hexagonal areas; at le... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4728107 | Board game apparatus and method A board game apparatus for playing a strategic and entertaining game. A game board and at least two types of playing pieces are provided. The game board is provided with a playing surface which displays a plurality of interconnected first symbols each of ... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4531744 | Open house - game This invention is a novel and intriguing game, which may be played by from two to eight players. The game consists of a distinctive gameboard, having disposed thereon 25 contiguously connected squares, color-coded, 8 preferably pink, 8 preferably green an... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4511143 | Electronic maze game 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... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4466615 | Apparatus for playing game An apparatus for playing a game is provided that includes a plurality of cards or tiles upon one surface of which is formed a representation of a portion of a typically elongate subject, which can be either a plant, animal or inanimate object. The tiles a... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4436309 | Strategy card game A game including a game board having a base and pegs upstanding on the base arranged in columns and rows to define a grid of uniformly sized squares. A plurality of square cards each of which is divided into nine colored squares identical in size to the s... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4376538 | Educational game for construction and identifying electrical and electronic circuits An educational game is provided not only for entertainment but for the teaching of the construction and recognition of electrical and electronic circuits. Electrical or electronic circuits can be constructed by the positioning of modules or playing pieces... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4266774 | Competitive game apparatus A competitive game apparatus comprised of a game board having a playing surface with a plurality of intersecting playing paths on which playing pieces may be positioned. Two or more players are each provided with a set of the playing pieces which are dist... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4248433 | Chain reaction falling playing pieces board game An action game in which a plurality of elongated playing pieces are placed in upstanding condition on a game board in selected positions in an attempt to form a continuous unbroken line of playing pieces from one player's king playing piece at a playing s... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4231577 | Electrical game apparatus using fold switch matrices Two playing boards with a matrix array of apertures are positioned so that one board only is displayed to each player. Electric circuitry including contacts are printed on one side of a flexible sheet which is folded so that contacts face each other adjac... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4226421 | Bridge-linking table game A table game set consists of a game board with alternating starting marks and goal marks on each side thereof and with a number of projected islands on the board to receive the pegged ends of playing pieces. The playing pieces are toy bridges resembling s... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4215866 | Line connecting table game set 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-f... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4190256 | Path forming game A game apparatus which may be played by two or more players, having playing pieces in the shape of equilateral hexagons for each player and a pre-marked game board having a matrix of contiguous spaces disposed thereon in the shape of equilateral hexagons ... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4180271 | Squiggle game A game and the game apparatus are disclosed. The game apparatus comprises a game board, a plurality of cards or the like which are deployed on said game board and a plurality of identifier playing pieces. Each of the cards has a plurality of line segments... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4078805 | Method of playing a game The game board has playing squares, across or on some of which are placed a river or stream, a railway, mountains or other topographical features. A first set of playing pieces have indicia representing a primary function, such as a town, and a secondary ... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4071244 | Suspension game A construction game that employs two separate game boards, each depicting the games' goals and providing the main support for the assemblying of the two completely independent structures. The completed structure will be a bridge abstraction, or more speci... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4067577 | Apparatus for games An apparatus for use in playing a game includes a game board comprising first and second arrays of points. Both arrays are two-dimensional. The first array includes n points in a first direction and (n + 1) points in a second direction, respectively, wher... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4047720 | Game including novel board and play pieces The game includes a board having a plurality of holes, pins, or the like, which are disposed in a start area, a play area, and a scoring area. The game also includes a set of play pieces for each player, and each play piece includes means by which it can ... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4032151 | Game board apparatus A game playable by two opposing players consists of a playing board having two opposite playing sides and two sets of game pieces which occur in uniformly graduated lengths. The playing board is formed with two sets of slideways in which game pieces may b... | 06/28/1977 |
