Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
273241000 | Having three-dimensional pattern | 14 |
20080197567 | STRUCTURE FOR A BOARD GAME - A structure for a board game, constituted of a regular geometrically shaped body with a vertical axis of symmetry. This body is horizontally subdivided into independent levels ( | 08-21-2008 |
20080252006 | MULTI-LEVEL GAME BOARD AND ITS METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - This invention relates to a multi-level game board apparatus for a game. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus may include a first board having a first marked surface forming a first plurality of game spaces, the first board also having a first positioning device. The apparatus has a second board having a second marked surface forming a second plurality of game spaces, the second board further having at least a second positioning device cooperable with the first positioning device. The second board may be selectably positionable relative to a portion of the first board. When the first marked surface is positioned relative to a portion of the second marked surface at least one of the second plurality of game spaces substantially underlies a section of the first board and the first positioning device cooperates with the second positioning device to form a model includable in the game. | 10-16-2008 |
20080315518 | Portable piece game set - A portable piece game set comprises a gameboard and a plurality of pieces. The gameboard includes two boards, where on an inner surface of a first board has a plurality of recessed piece seats for placing pieces, and a second board is connected with and used for covering the first board. Each piece includes a holding part and a positioning part, where the holding part is used for players to position or place the piece and the positioning part is fit with the recessed piece seat for placing the piece on the inner surface of the first board. | 12-25-2008 |
20090302538 | Board Game Having Multi-Level Playing Rules - A board game is provided having the theme Death and Taxes. Multiple levels of paths of spaces are indicated on a board, each level having differing rules affecting the amount of scrip currency that a player receives or loses in playing. Players' pieces are moved to differing levels dependent on the amount of currency assigned to that player (Net Worth). | 12-10-2009 |
20100032901 | BOARD GAME WITH TOWER AND COLLAPSING STAIRS - An Indiana Jones theme board game having a tower supporting a plurality of collapsible stairs mounted in a spiral fashion, a deck of chance cards, dice, and pawns for the players. A tower top is mounted to the upper portion of the tower for rotation and downward vertical movement. A tube is mounted within the tower, and a number of pegs are mounted in the tower wall, one peg supporting a corresponding stair. The tube and pegs cooperate to transmit the rotational and vertical movement of the tower top to the collapsible stairs. The player picks a card and follows instructions printed on the card. During the game, certain cards instruct the players to rotate the tower top, causing openings in the outer wall of the tube to be located adjacent different combination of pegs, the combination being hidden and unknown to the players, such that the next vertical movement of the tower top and the tube results in an unknown combination of stairs to collapse. Certain stairs include hooks for engaging the pawns and preventing their fall should the stairs collapse. The tower also includes several small openings spaced from certain other stairs that allow pawns moved to particular spaces on those stairs to engage the tower to also ensure that the pawns do not fall should the stairs collapse. | 02-11-2010 |
20100148440 | MULTI-LEVEL BOARD GAME - A computer useable recording storage medium having computer program logic stored thereon for executing on a processor for implementing a multi-player game, the computer program logic including computer program code means for displaying a game board structure. The game board structure includes a base platform, a plurality of vertically aligned support assemblies engaged with the base platform at one or more locations about the perimeter of the base platform by connection of each of the plurality of vertically aligned support assemblies to the base platform. The game board structure also includes an elevated board game level horizontally disposed substantially within a boundary formed by the engagement of the base platform and the plurality of vertically aligned support assemblies and positioned at a height above the base platform sufficient to provide an amount of space between the base platform and the elevated board game level above the base platform. | 06-17-2010 |
20100276881 | Entertaining Balancing Ball Set - An improved entertaining balancing ball set includes a basis ball of a pre-determined outer diameter and a rolling ball of a smaller diameter. The basis ball includes one or more grooved orbits of which the shape could be branching, labyrinth-like, curving, extending, etc. The grooved orbits include a skewed side, one or more traps, a starting point on one end for each of grooved orbits, and a destination on the other end for each of grooved orbits. The rolling ball has a diameter that is determined based on the width of the groove orbits over which the rolling ball is to move within. The inside of the basis ball could be either hollow or solid. | 11-04-2010 |
20100276882 | Player Designable Game Board and Parlor Games Playable Thereon - A player designable game board and parlor games which may be playable thereon to suit the design specifications of a user. In a preferred embodiment, the game board is three dimensional. The game board may adopt any geometric arrangement preferred by the user and may be comprised of any number of board playing tiers preferred by the user. In addition, playing spaces for game playing pieces may be marked with insert substrates to represent various stations in a play of a game. Individual boards and posts are provided to achieve the various tiers and the game playing space substrates or so-called tiles are also provided with the game board. In one embodiment, the game tiles may be inserted in recessed areas on the game board. In another embodiment, game tiles may be laid on a flat surface and located between upright posts which allow for individual playing tiers. | 11-04-2010 |
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 a tower with eight interlocking, rotating, revolving tiers no more than three and a half to four feet in height, each tier is design to hold a custom design clear acrylic chessboard with alternating raised squares of varying styles and design measuring up to 20.″×20.″×0.25; moreover, the basic rules of three dimensional/multilevel chess. | 06-02-2011 |
20120043718 | Pyramid game - A three-dimensional game shaped as a pyramid or prism with four or more faces, in which each face has nine terraced levels that attenuate to the peak of the pyramid. Each level has a plurality of circular depressions for the placement of each player's playing pieces. The corresponding level of each face has the same number of circular depressions, and each consecutive higher level has two fewer depressions than its immediate lower level. The peak of the pyramid is truncated and has a single circular depression. The peak can only be occupied by one playing piece at a time. | 02-23-2012 |
20120091659 | INTERCHANGEABLE THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) GLASSES AND THREE DIMENSIONAL 5 CONNECT-THE-DOTS DRAWINGS - Interchangeable glasses in accordance with one embodiment include a glasses frame; a first pair of lenses that are interchangeable with the glasses frame and have a first set of lenses that are a first color; a second pair of lenses that are interchangeable with the glasses frame and have a second set of lenses that are a second color; and a third pair of lenses that are interchangeable with the glasses frame and have a third set of lenses, where the third set of lenses includes a first lens that is the first color and a second lens that is the second color. | 04-19-2012 |
20120248698 | Game and method of playing the same and structures for a game board and other utilizations - A game having a three-dimensional game board and two or more sets of tokens. The game board has at least three vertically spaced-apart platforms each of which has thereon markings dividing it into nine or more areas laid out in a square patterns. The tokens of each set are distinguishable from the tokens of each of the others sets, and the tokens of each is provided with serial markings. The game is played by placing sequentially marked tokens into empty spaces in a game board platform and/or matrix game board to achieve an in-line arrangement of at least three of the tokens. | 10-04-2012 |
20140070489 | Game, method of playing the same, and collapsible game board - A collapsible three-dimensional game board having platforms separated by pillars, there being elastic cords which allow the game board to be held in an erect or collapsed position. The board may be used to play a game in which tokens, which may carry numbers or letters or be in the shape of numbers or letters, are placed into empty spaces of the platforms to achieve a desired effect. | 03-13-2014 |
20160107072 | Dimensional Strategy Game - A strategy game comprising a removable bottom with a plurality of exit tracks, a removable top plate having a plurality of entrance holes, a removable center column, a plurality of removable turnable disks having differing configurations of passageways, and a plurality of spheroid game pieces. In some examples, the bottom plate is configured to have a plurality of exit holes. In some further examples, the strategy gamed includes differing arrangements of turnable disks and varying configurations of passageways. | 04-21-2016 |