Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
  • A63F9/10—Two-dimensional [2D] jig-saw puzzles
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F1/00—Card games
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F1/00—Card games
  • A63F1/04—Card games combined with other games
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F1/00—Card games
  • A63F1/04—Card games combined with other games
  • A63F2001/0475—Card games combined with other games with pictures or figures
  • A63F2001/0483—Card games combined with other games with pictures or figures having symbols or direction indicators for playing the game
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F11/00—Game accessories of general use
  • A63F11/0074—Game concepts, rules or strategies
  • A63F2011/0079—Game concepts, rules or strategies keeping something hidden or invisible
  • A63F2011/0081—"Memory"-type games, e.g. finding the corresponding hidden element
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F11/00—Game accessories of general use
  • A63F11/0074—Game concepts, rules or strategies
  • A63F2011/0083—Memory oriented or pattern matching games
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
  • A63F9/08—Puzzles provided with elements movable in relation, i.e. movably connected, to each other
  • A63F9/0803—Two-dimensional puzzles with slideable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged

Definitions

• directional indicia on a game piece may comprise a plurality of pointers or arrows, which may simultaneously and separately point in different directions.
• Still other embodiments of the game may include game pieces comprising more than two side or two faces.
• a game piece may have a three- dimensional shape such as a cube, each face of which may bear a combination of player alignment indicia and directional indicia distinguishable from that on each other face of the game piece.
• each two-sided game piece 14 is blue on one face and red on the other.
• the blue face of each game piece 14 is represented in the drawings by a diagonal grid pattern
• the red face of each game piece 14 is represented by a pattern of diagonal lines.
• one player may be associated with blue (the "blue player") and the other player may be associated with red (the "red player”).
• Colors may be assigned, selected at random, or chosen using any appropriate method.
• the pieces may be arranged on the game board in an initial configuration such as that indicated in Fig. 1, wherein the number of game pieces displaying a red face equals the number of game pieces displaying a blue face.
• the game pieces may be placed in predetermined spaces on the board.
• Game play begins by determining which player plays first.
• a game piece 14 may either be moved one space 16 in the direction indicated by arrow 26, or reoriented (or rotated) 90 degrees to point arrow 26 in a different direction.
• the blue player may begin by moving a blue game piece one space or by rotating a blue piece 90 degrees.
• a game piece may be moved or rotated by the player associated with the color displayed on the game piece.
• Figs. 7 and 8 show results of a possible series of turns illustrating this concept. Referring to Fig. 7, red game piece 14b has been rotated so that arrow 26b points toward adjacent blue game piece 14a. Blue game piece 14a may thus be flipped over to reveal the red face, effectively "capturing" that piece, as is shown in Fig. 8.
• the opponent piece is flipped over as well. This process may continue during the same turn, as long as the arrow on the newly revealed face of the flipped piece points towards an adjacent opponent piece.
• players may not look or otherwise knowingly influence which way an arrow will point when a game piece is flipped over.
• Figs. 11-13 show results of a possible series of turns illustrating these concepts.
• game piece 14d has been flipped over to display the red face.
• arrow 26d on the newly revealed red face of game piece 14d points at adjacent blue game piece 14e, game piece 14e may be flipped over as well.
• arrow 26e on the newly revealed red face of game piece 14e points toward adjacent blue game piece 14c, which may be flipped over to reveal the red face.
• Fig. 13 shows that game piece 14c has been flipped over to reveal the red face.
• the described method of play is exemplary and numerous alterations are possible.
• the game may be played by multiple players, each associated with a different background color or other distinguishable player alignment indicia.
• each game piece may bear several different player alignment indicators, each may be associated with one or more players.
• the game is suitable for play by groups or teams of players.
• the method of game play may depend to some extent on the configuration of the game apparatus.
• the method of play may allow a game piece to be manipulated in any number of ways indicated by the directional indicia. For example, if one face or side of a two-sided game piece bears two arrows that point in different directions, a method of game play might allow such a game piece to be moved in either indicated direction, and/or capture or flip over an adjacent opponent's game piece indicated by either arrow.

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