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Method of playing a letter selecting and arranging game

Patent 4690409 Issued on September 1, 1987. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject April 29, 2006. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

2676019

3195895

3606336

Inventor

Application

No. 06/858821 filed on 04/29/1986

US Classes:

273/299, Word, sentence, or equation forming273/141RRotating pointer

Examiners

Primary: Oechsle, Anton O.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

A63F 3/04 (20060101)
A63F 5/04 (20060101)

Abstract

A game includes an indicator board having a pointer pivotally supported over a first dial face divided into sectors, each sector having indicia to identify an integer therein. The board also includes a pointer pivotally mounted over a second dial face having at least twenty six sectors, each sector including indicia to identify a letter of the alphabet. In addition, letter indicia members corresponding to the letters identified in the second dial piece are manipulated by a player to form abbreviations, acronyms, or initials. The method of practicing the game includes randomly selecting an integer on the first dial face to be used to determine the number of letters to be used during a player's turn, randomly selecting alphabetic letters on the second dial face to determine the particular letters to be used during a player's turn, and selecting corresponding indicia members which are then arranged and juxtapositioned to make abbreviations, acronyms or initials recognizable to the player. A score sheet is used as a means for recording point values for the number of letter indicia members employed during the course of a player's turn to successfully produce abbreviations, acronyms and initials.

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