WO1989008483A1

WO1989008483A1 - Multilingual, pedagogical and electronic letter game

Info

Publication number: WO1989008483A1
Application number: PCT/FR1989/000109
Authority: WO
Inventors: Victor Salnot
Original assignee: Victor Salnot
Priority date: 1988-03-16
Filing date: 1989-03-15
Publication date: 1989-09-21
Also published as: AU3285189A; FR2628650A1

Abstract

A letter game is played on an electronic game console (1), divided into four distinct parts (1, 2, 3, 4) arranged on two levels (5, 6) consisting of a multilingual electronic diccionary, and external memory, an internal memory, an alphabetical keyboard, a numerical keyboard, a game grid, a screen, general counters, five screens and four individual game counters, and a printer. Lettered tokens of different colours according to each player enable them to form and set out in turn their words on the game grid. The game is intended in particular to enable and provide the means for a word competition between persons of different language and culture, each expressing himself in his own language, provided that said languages use the same alphabet. It does not include any graphic (diacritical) signs intended to give a particular phonetic accent to the letters to which they are applied.

Description

MULTI-LANGUAGE LETTERS GAME, EDUCATIONAL AND ELECTRONIC.

THIS INVENTION CONCERNS A GAME OF LETTERS WHICH ALLOWS AND ORGANIZES, AT EQUAL CHANCES, LITERAL COMPETITION BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, EXPRESSING EACH IN THE LANGUAGE WHICH IS HIS OWN. THE ONLY CONDITION BEING THAT THE LANGUAGES CONCERNED- USE THE SAME ALPHABET, ABSTRACTION MADE OF ALL GRAPHIC SIGNS (DIACRITICS) INTENDED TO GIVE A PARTICULAR PHONETIC ACCENT TO LETTERS RECEIVING THEM.

FOR EXAMPLE, A COMPETITION MAY BE ORGANIZED BETWEEN FOUR PEOPLE:

1 °. THE FIRST SPEAKING IN GERMAN,

2 °. SECOND IN ENGLISH,

3 °. THE THIRD IN SPANISH,

4 °. THE FOURTH IN FRENCH. THESE FOUR LANGUAGES HAVE ADOPTED AND USED THE ALPHABET IN COMMON

LATIN.

Likewise, it will be possible to organize a competition between two, three or four people, each of them speaking in one of the twenty languages having adopted and using the Latin alphabet.

ON THE PRINCIPLE OF A CROSSWORD GAME, IT CONSISTS, ON AN ELECTRONIC GAME CONSOLE PROVIDED WITH A GAME GRID DIVIDED INTO

FOUR HUNDRED FORTY AND ONE BOXES, 441 BOXES,

NUMBERS AND IDS DONE. IN HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL HIGNS, TO BE PLAYED TO FORM WITH LETTERED TOKENS, HORIZONTALLY AND VERTICALLY, WORDS THAT OVERLAY IN ANY WAY AS EACH LETTER OF A WORD HORIZONTALLY ARRIVED, ENTERS IN THE COMPOSITION OF ANOTHER WORD VERTICALLY LAYOUT. GAMES OF THE SAME LETTERS THAT CURRENTLY EXIST ON THE MARKET, DO NOT ALLOW AND ORGANIZE THE COMPETITION BETWEEN PEOPLE USING THE SAME LANGUAGE:

A. EITHER, MOST OFTEN, DUE TO THEIR PRINCIPLE OF DESIGN, THEIR ORGANIZATION AND THEIR RULES. THIS IS, FROM A LIMITED NUMBER OF LETTERS, SELECTED OR DRAWN BY CHANCE, , MOST

LONG POSSIBLE BUT WITH THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF LETTERS

WHICH IT MUST OR MAY CONDUCT IS FIXED IN ADVANCE.

B. EITHER IN SOME OF THESE GAMES DUE TO VALUES

DIFFERENT, PREVIOUSLY AND DEFINITIVELY, ALLOCATED TO EACH LETTER ACCORDING TO ITS FREQUENCY OF USE TION IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE LANGUAGE OF DESTINATION OF THE GAME ITSELF.

SO THE VALUE ASSIGNED TO A LETTER IS DIFFERENT

FROM ONE LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER. THEREFORE, FOR THE SAME GAME, WE FIND THAT THERE IS A "SPECIAL EDITION"

CLEAN FOR EACH LANGUAGE USING IN COMMON

THE LATIN ALPHABET.

GENERALLY THESE GAMES, AMONG THE MOST POPULAR, DO NOT INCLUDE

ONLY ONE "GAME OF LETTERS" OF WHICH THE NUMBER IS LIMITED. IN ADDITION, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME COLOR AND ARE TO BE USED IN COMMON

BY ALL THE PLAYERS WHO MAY BE THREE OR FOUR

WHICH HAS THE EFFECT:

A. TO LIMIT THE POSSIBILITIES OF USE OF THE VOCABULARY OF THE LANGUAGE CONCERNED, IN ALL ITS RICHNESS, ITS SUBTITIES, ITS REFINEMENT. BUT ALSO, FOR EACH PLAYER, ITS SENSE OF STRATEGY, ITS RISK TASTE, ITS EXPRESSION OPPORTUNITIES, B. TO MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE, ON THE GAME OF THE GAME, AT ANY TIME OF A GAME, SEPARATE AND IMMEDIATE VIEWING LETTERS PLACED AS WELL AS WORDS FORMED AND DISPOSED BY EACH PLAYER, IN ADDITION, IN SOME OF THESE GAMES:

1. THERE ARE LETTERS PASS-PARTOUT, IT IS TO SAY WHITE TOKENS, WITHOUT ANY REGISTRATION AND WITHOUT ANY VALUE THAT ALLOW THEM OR THOSE WHO OWN THEM IN THEIR GAME, TO AFFECT THEM AS A REPLACEMENT OF A LETTER OF THEIR CHOICE IN THE FORMATION OF A WORD TO BE PLACED ON THE GAME GRID. HOWEVER THIS ALLOCATION DOES NOT CONFER THEIR VALUE IN THE SCORE OF POINTS.

2. ON THE GAME GRID, THE LOCATION OF THE FIRST WORD IS, IN A RESTRICTED AND MANDATORY SPACE, PRE-DETERMINED IN ADVANCE. 3. THE GAME GRID DOES NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT BOXES TO RECEIVE, HORIZONTALLY OR VERTICALLY, IN EACH LANGUAGE OF GAME DESTINATION, THE LONGEST WORDS IN THE VOCABULARY OF THESE LANGUAGES, DETERMINED ACCORDING TO THIS NUMBER OF BOXES, THE NUMBER OF LETTERS THAT EACH PLAYER IS AUTHORIZED TO HOLD ON ITS EASEL DOES NOT ALLOW IT. 4. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO FORM AND PLACE ON THE GAME GRID A WORD OR AN EXPRESSION (ARGOTIC, IDIOMATIC, FIGURATIVE, TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC, ETC.) FORMED OF TWO OTHER RELATED WORDS: EITHER BY A DRAW UNION OR, IN CERTAIN LANGUAGES,

THE SPACE PERFORMING THIS FUNCTION,

EITHER BY A PREPOSITION OR A CONJUNCTION OF COORDINATION. 5. VERIFICATION, IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE LANGUAGE CONCERNED, OF THE EXISTENCE AS WELL AS THE ORTHOGRAPH OF

WORDS DONE DURING THE GAME, DURING WHICH

POSSIBILITIES OF CHALLENGE EXIST.

THEREFORE, BY THEIR DESIGN, THEIR ORGANIZATION, THEIR

DESTINATION AND THEIR RULES, THESE LETTER GAMES DO NOT ALLOW OR PROMOTE COMMUNICATION, RECONCILIATION, EXCHANGES

AND COMPETITION BETWEEN PEOPLE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

DIFFERENT, AS SOON AS EACH EXPRESS IN THE LANGUAGE

WHO IS OWN.

THE GAME OF LETTERS ACCORDING TO THE INVENTION ELIMINATES THOSE HANDICAPS IN LITERIAL COMPETITION BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGES EXPRESSING EACH OF THE OWN LANGUAGES. THE ONLY CONDITION IS THAT THE LANGUAGES CONCERNED HAVE ADOPTED AND USED IN THE SAME ALPHABET, ABSTRACTION MADE OF ALL GRAPHIC (DIACRITIC) SIGNS INTENDED TO GIVE A PARTICULAR PHONETIC ACCENT TO LETTERS RECEIVING THEM.

Λ THIS EFFECT IS IN THE FORM OF A GAME CONSOLE CONSISTING OF:

1. OF A GAME GRID FORMED OF FOUR HUNDRED FORTY AND

ONE BOXES 441 BOXES, LAYOUT TWENTY AND A NUMBERED HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL LINES, KNOW:. HORIZONTALLY FROM ONE TO TWENTY AND ONE FROM 1 TO 21,

_. VERTICALLY FROM Δ TO AU TO U.

WHAT ALLOWS IT, IN ONE SENSE OR THE OTHER, TO RECEIVE THE LONGEST WORDS FROM ALL

LANGUAGES USING THE LATIN ALPHABET OR ANY OTHER ALPHABET IN COMMON.

2. AN ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY INCLUDING:

A. A MULTILANGUAGE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY, REMOVABLE AND INTERCHANGEABLE ACCORDING TO LANGUAGES

... / EXPRESSION AND GAME PLAYERS. B. AN EXTERNAL MEMORY,

C. INTERNAL MEMORY AND DICTIONARY AND EXTERNAL MEMORY READING SYSTEMS. D. AN ALPHABETIC KEYBOARD COMPRISING ALL THE

OPERATING AND FUNCTIONAL KEYS OF AN ELECTRONIC WRITING MACHINE UNDER THOSE SPECIFIC TO THE GAME ITSELF. IN CERTAIN VARIANTS OF DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF THE GAME, IT WILL ALLOW, AT THE END OF THE GAME,

TO INSERT IN THE INTERNAL MEMORY, THE WORDS AVAILABLE ON THE GAME GRID, FOR CONTROL AND VERIFICATION, BY THE MULTILANGUAGE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY, OF THEIR EXISTENCE IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE LANGUAGES CONCERNED, AS WELL AS EXAC¬

TITUDE OF THEIR SPELLING. GENERALLY, IN ALL THE VARIANTS OF DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF THE GAME, IT WILL ALLOW TO RESTITUTE THE LETTERS OF THE WORDS NEEDING THEM, THE DIACRITICAL ACCENTS THAT DO NOT APPEAR

ON THE GAME GRID. E. A NUMERICAL KEYBOARD COMPRISING IN BOTH THE KEYS NECESSARY FOR ITS USE AS A CALCULATOR, THE INDIVIDUAL GAME SWITCHES AS WELL AS A KEY TO INDIVIDUALIZATION, OF RECORDING

MENT AND ACCOUNTING FOR WORDS IN THE COMMON AUXILIARY LANGUAGE (THE LATIN FOR LANGUAGES USING THE LATIN ALPHABET) FORMED AND LAYED ON THE GAME GRID. F. A CONTROL SCREEN AND VISUALIZATION OF INFORMATION

MATIONS ENTERED AND EXISTING IN MEMORY), G. GENERAL COUNTERS INCLUDING A CALENDAR AND A CLOCK AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL COUNTERS RECORDING AND CONTINUOUSLY DISPLAYING ALL THE NECESSARY INFORMATION ON THE PARTY, TO KNOW:

. HIS DURATION,

. THE START TIME, THE END TIME,. THE GAME TIME EVERY TIME IS ALLOWED BY EACH PLAYER TO FORM AND PLACE A WORD ON THE GAME GRID, ... / . THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS,

. THE NUMBER OF WORDS, IN THE COMMON AUXILIARY LANGUAGE, FORMED & ARRANGED ON THE GAME GRID,. THE TIME REMAINING TO BE BROUGHT UNTIL THE END OF THE GAME,

. THE TOTAL CUMULATIVE POINTS MARKED. 3. OF A SCREEN THAT INDICATES, IN A GENERAL AND PERMANENT WAY:

. THE INFORMATION TO BE RECORDED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME IN THE INDIVIDUAL GAME COUNTERS,. THE NATURE OF THE INFORMATION WHICH WILL BE RECORDED IN THESE SAME INDIVIDUAL GAME COUNTERS DURING THE GAME. 4. FOUR SCREENS ARRANGED IN VERTICAL LINES IN WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL COUNTERS ARE INCORPORATED

GAME.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT THEY ARE NUMBERED FROM ONE TO FOUR. FOR EACH PLAYER, FOLLOWING ITS ORDER OF INTERVENTION AND GAME, THEY RECORD AND PERMANENTLY DISPLAY INFORMATION ABOUT IT, KNOW:

A. HIS NAME, B. HIS LANGUAGE OF EXPRESSION AND GAME, C. THE FRACTION OF THE DURATION OF THE GAME WHICH IS ALLOCATED TO HIM TO TRAIN K TO HAVE HIS WORDS ON THE GAME GRID, COUNT & RECORD

ITS POINTS, D. THE TIMER CONTROLLING THE RUNNING OF THE GAME TIME WHICH IS, EACH TIME, GOING TO FORM & PLACE ITS WORD ON THE GAME GRID, COUNTING AND RECORDING ITS POINTS,

E. THE TOTAL CUMULATIVE OF ITS PLAYING TIMES USED, F. THE BALANCE OF ITS FRACTION OF THE DURATION OF THE GAME

REMAINING TO BE USED (C-E), G. TOTAL POINTS MARKED DURING EACH GAME,

H. THE TOTAL CUMULATIVE POINTS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME. A PRINTER FOR REPRODUCING:

ON THE ONE HAND, THE GAME GRID AS IT WAS SAVED IN THE INTERNAL MEMORY. BY A DIFFERENCE OF CHARACTERS, THIS PRINT WILL SEPARATELY DISPLAY THE WORDS FORMED AND ARRANGED BY EACH PLAYER.

ON THE OTHER HAND, A LIST OF THESE SAME WORDS, PRECEDED BY THE INDICATION OF THEIR POSITIONS ON THE GAME GRID. THEY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY THE INDICATION OF THE NUMBER OF POINTS THAT WILL BE EACH ALLOCATED AFTER CHECKING AND CHECKING BY THE DICTIONARY.

FROM REQUESTS THAT WILL BE PREVIOUSLY FORMULATED AND ENTERED INTO MEMORY, THE SAME WILL BE FOR ALL

OTHER INFORMATION :

. EITHER PEDAGOGICAL IN NATURE, SUCH AS TRANSLATIONS,. EITHER ON THE GAME EVEN IN A GENERAL WAY, ON THE GAME OF EACH PLAYER IN PARTICULAR.

THE EXTERNAL MEMORY WILL ALLOW THE BACKUP AND STORAGE OF ALL OF THIS INFORMATION. IN ADDITION, EACH PLAYER HAS:

A. IN THE FORM OF TOKENS OF THE SAME FORM AND OF THE SAME DIMENSIONS AS THE BOXES OF THE GAME GRID:

. OF A SET OF ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTY TEN NINE

LETTERS 199 LETTERS,

DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THOSE OF THE ALPHABET CONCERNED

THROUGH THE GAME, WHICH HAS THE CONSEQUENCE OF ALLOWING THEM, EVERYONE, IN ANY LANGUAGE

OF EXPRESSION AND GAME, TO HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF FORMING AND PLACING ON THE GAME GRID, THE LONGEST WORDS IN THE VOCABULARY OF THIS LANGUAGE.

. (±) PLUS A GRAPHIC SIGN 1 SIGN, GIVING THEM, EACH, THE POSSIBILITY OF FORMING

AND TO HAVE ON THE GAME GRID, HORIZONTALLY OR VERTICALLY, IN ONE OR SEVERAL TIMES, A WORD OR AN EXPRESSION (ARGOTIC, IDIOMATIC, FIGURATIVE, SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, ETC ..) FORMED OF TWO RELATED WORDS, EITHER BY:

. A LINK OR, IN CERTAIN LANGUAGES,

THE SPACE PERFORMING THIS FUNCTION,. A CONJUNCTION OF COORDINATION,. A PREPOSITION. ARRANGED AT THE LOCATION PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE THIS SIGN

... / GRAPHIC CAN, VICE AND VERSA, IN THE HORIZONTAL SENSE REPRESENT A hyphen OR SUCH CONJUNCTION OR PREPOSITION, IN THE VERTICAL SENSE THAT OR THAT. THE LETTERS AVAILABLE TO EACH PLAYER, FOR

ITS GAME, ARE DESIGNATED UNDER THE GENERAL TERM OF "GAME OF LETTERS".

THEY ARE CONTAINED IN A BAG TO MIX AND HIDE THEM FROM SIGHT WHEN THE BLIND CHOICE OF THOSE NECESSARY TO TRAIN

WORDS TO BE PLACED ON THE GAME GRID. THEY ARE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR FOR EACH OF THEM, WHICH ALLOWS, DURING THE GAME, TO SPOT IMMEDIATELY AND SEPARATELY, ON THE GAME GRID, LETTERS AND WORDS PLACED BY

EACH.

WHEREVER THE LANGUAGE (S) OF EXPRESSION AND

OF GAME, ALL LETTERS HAVE AND KEEP A

SAME AND UNIQUE VALUE OF TWO POINTS, .. 2 POINTS, ONLY THEIR POSITIONS ON THE GAME GRID, SO

THAT THESE WORDS THAT THEY FORM FOR MAY ALLOW TO BENEFIT, WHEN COUNTING POINTS, PREMIUMS FOR LETTERS OR FOR WORDS. B. OF A NUMBERED EASEL ALLOWING TO KNOW, AT ANY TIME OF A GAME, THE ORDER OF INTERVENTION AND GAME

OF EACH ONE. IN ADDITION, A SPECIAL NUMBERING, FROM ONE TO

TEN (1 TO 10)

PLACED ON THE REVERSE, IN CASES OF THE SAME WIDTH AS THE LETTER TOKENS ALLOWS EVERYONE, DURING THE GAME, TO CHECK THAT HIS OPPONENT (S) HAS THE ACCURATE NUMBER OF LETTERS REQUIRED AND AUTHORIZED BY THE RULES OF THE GAME. C. FOUR INTENT SIGNALING PLATES.

THEY ARE EACH OF A DIFFERENT COLOR AND CARRY, RECTO AND BACK, IN TEN LANGUAGES OF THE SAME ALPHABET, THE REGISTRATION OF THEIR EXACT MEANING.

DUE TO THE DIFFICULTIES OF VERBAL COMMUNICATION MAY EXIST BETWEEN THEM, THEY HAVE THE PURPOSE OF ALLOWING THEM, AT ANY TIME OF A GAME, TO INTERVENE AND TO EXPRESS CLEARLY ON ALL THE ASPECTS OF THE GAME, ... / ITS RULES, HOW IT WORKS.

FINALLY, THERE IS NEITHER A LOCATION, OR A SENSE OF POSITIONING MANDATORY FOR THE DISPOSITION OF THE FIRST WORD.

Subject to compliance with certain rules regarding the position of his first or last letter, he may be arranged and positioned at any point on the grid. ACCORDING TO A PREFERENTIAL EMBODIMENT OF A NATURE TO FACILITATE ITS MAINTENANCE AND ANY REPAIRS, THE CONSOLE OF THE GAME, AS WELL AS EACH OF THE ELEMENTS CONSTITUTING THE GAME ITSELF AS A WHOLE WILL BE PERFORMED SEPARATELY. I LS WILL THEN BE ASSEMBLED EITHER BY CLIPPING, GLUING OR TIGHTENING. THEY WILL PREFERABLY BE CARRIED OUT IN RIGID PLASTIC MATERIAL IN ONE OR MORE INJECTION OR THERMOFORMING MOLDING OPERATIONS. IN ITS MOST COMMON FORM, THE GAME CONSOLE WILL BE IN THE FORM OF A RECTANGLE PARALLELEPIPED. ITS DIMENSIONS WILL BE BETWEEN TEN AND TWENTY CENTIMETERS FOR HEIGHT, THIRTY AND THIRTY EIGHT CENTIMETERS FOR WIDTH, FIFTY TO SIXTY CENTIMETERS FOR LENGTH. ITS TOP SIDE, ORGANIZED ON TWO LEVELS, WILL BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR SEPARATE PARTS.

IN THE SENSE AND THE ORDER OF ITS USE, IT WILL INCLUDE, ORGANIZED THROUGHOUT ITS SURFACE, FROM BOTTOM TO TOP & FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: 1. AT THE FIRST LEVEL, A. THE MULTILANGUAGE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY, IN THE FORM:. EITHER FROM A COMPACT DISC IN ANOTHER OF ITS EMBODIMENTS CALLED CDROM, (COMPACT DISC READ ONLY MEMORY) OR CDI (COMPACT DISC INTERACTIVE) WHICH ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS,. IS IN THE FORM OF A MAGNETIC CASSETTE (K.7). B. THE ALPHABETIC KEYBOARD, INCLUDING, IN ADDITION TO THE FUNCTIONAL KEYS SPECIFIC TO THE GAME, ALL THOSE ALLOWING ITS USE AS AN ELECTRONIC WRITING MACHINE. C. THE NUMERIC KEYBOARD COMPRISING ALL THE KEYS ALLOWING ITS USE AS A CALCULATOR, OTHER THAN THOSE SPECIFIC TO THE GAME, TO KNOW PRINCIPALLY:. THE INDIVIDUAL GAME SWITCHES,. THE KEY TO INDIVIDUALIZATION, RECORDING AND ACCOUNTING OF WORDS FORMED AND PLACED IN THE COMMON AUXILIARY LANGUAGE, LATIN IN THIS WHICH CONCERNS LANGUAGES THAT HAVE ADOPTED AND USED LATIN ALPHABET IN COMMON. THEY CONSTITUTE THEM THREE THE FIRST PART. D. THE GAME GRID CONSTITUTES THE SECOND PART. IT IS DEFINED:

. LEFT AND RIGHT, VERTICALLY, BY THE ALPHABETIC REFERENCES OF THE GAME BOXES,. UP & DOWN, HORIZONTALLY, BY NUMERICAL REFERENCES FROM THE SAME GAME BOXES. BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND LEVEL, IN THE INTERMEDIATE PART JOINING BETWEEN THE TWO, ABOVE A HEIGHT

FIFTEEN CENTIMETERS, ARE IN THE ORDER ABOVE, ALIGNED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

E. THE MONITORING & VIEWING SCREEN OF THE INFORMATION ENTERED AND EXISTING IN MEMORY.

F. LAYOUT VERTICALLY ON TWO SEPARATE SCREENS,

THE CLOCK AND CALENDAR THEN THE GENERAL COUNTERS

DESCRIBED FURTHER ON PAGE 4 § G., G. THE SCREEN INDICATING THE INFORMATION TO BE RECORDED AND CONTAINED IN THE INDIVIDUAL GAME COUNTERS DESCRIBED

ON PAGE 5 § 4. A. AT H., H. THE INDIVIDUAL GAME COUNTERS. THEY ARE NUMBERED FROM

ONE TO FOUR. THEY CONSTITUTE, IN THEIR ENTIRETY, THE THIRD PART. 2i AT SECOND LEVEL:

THE FOURTH PART INCLUDING, ALWAYS ORGANIZED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AND FROM BOTTOM TO TOP: I. THE PRINTER, B. THE INDICATOR AND INDIVIDUAL GAME INDICATORS, K. THE OPENINGS OF THE INDIVIDUAL RECEPTACLES OF THE LETTERS SET OUT OF THE GAME. IT WILL BE PROVIDED WITH A POSITIONING AND GUIDANCE BASE FOR ALLOWING, IN turn, THE POSITIONING OF THE GAME GRID IN FRONT OF EACH PLAYER. IT WILL BE POWERED BY A SERIES OF BATTERIES CONNECTED BETWEEN THEM AND RECHARGEABLE ON THE AREA. THEY WILL HAVE A SINGLE EXTERNAL CHARGE POINT WHICH WILL BE INCORPORATED A TRANSFORMER AND A VOLTAGE SELECTOR.

IT WILL BE PLANNED TO OPERATE EITHER IN AN AUTONOMOUS WAY, EITHER BY CONNECTION TO THE AREA DURING THE TIME NECESSARY FOR ... / RECHARGE BATTERIES.

FOR THIS PURPOSE, THE POSITIONING AND ORIENTATION BASE SERVTRA, ON THE ONE HAND, A PLUG-IN POINT FOR THE BATTERY SECTOR LINK, ON THE OTHER HAND STORE FOR THE STORAGE OF THE POWER CABLE.

INSIDE THE GAME CONSOLE WILL BE SUCCESSIVELY ACCOMMODATED, IN THE PITCHES WHICH WILL BE RESERVED:

A. THE MICROSYSTEMS ALLOWING THE OPERATION OF THE ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY, B. THE MULTI-LANGUAGE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY AND EXTERNAL MEMORY READING SYSTEMS, C. INTERNAL MEMORY, D. ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, E. BATTERIES, F. THE PRINTING SYSTEM, G. THE PAPER STORE, H. THE INDIVIDUAL TRAYS FOR COLLECTING LETTERS SET OUT OF PLAY.

ON THE SIDE FAÇADES WILL BE PROVIDED: 1º THE POINTS OF INTRODUCTION AND READING OF THE MULTILANGUAGE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY, AS WELL AS OF THE EXTERNAL MEMORY,

2 °. CONNECTION SOCKETS FOR PERIPHERAL ACCESSORIES FOR RECEIVING & TRANSMITTING INFORMATION, EXTENDING USAGE CAPACITIES.

ACCORDING TO A VARIANT IN ITS REALIZATION, A READING SYSTEM, OPTICAL OR MAGNETIC, FUNCTIONING OF I RECTANCE BETWEEN THE G L I GLE AND THE LETTER TOKENS WILL BE ABLE:

. TO INDIVIDUALIZE EACH PLAYER ACCORDING TO THE COLOR OF ITS LETTER SET. THIS INFORMATION BEFORE

BE ENTERED INTO MEMORY AT THE START OF THE GAME,. TO INDIVIDUALIZE EACH OF THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET USED AND, THEREFORE, TO RECONSTITUTE THE WORDS THAT WILL BE FORMED AND ARRANGED ON THE GAME GRID,. TO TAKE THE COUNT OF THE POINTS MARKED AT EACH TURN OF THE GAME, TO ASSIGN THEM TO THE PLAYERS CONCERNED. THIS INFORMATION WILL BE DIRECTLY RECORDED IN THE INTERNAL MEMORY WHICH WILL BE ABLE TO RECONSTITUTE THE GAME GRID AS IT WAS COMPOSED. THEREFORE, THIS READING SYSTEM, AT THE END OF THE GAME:

... / A. WILL DELETE THE OBLIGATION TO COPY THE GAME GRID, B. CHECK THE ACCURACY OF THE POINTS RECORDED AT EACH

GAME TURN, C. WILL APPLY THE PENALTIES IN CASE OF ERRORS MADE IN THIS ACCOUNT.

HOWEVER, IT WILL ALWAYS BE NECESSARY THAT, AT THE END OF THE GAME, EVERYONE INTERVENES TO RESTITUTE THE LETTERS NEEDING THEM, THE DIACRITIC ACCENTS THAT DO NOT APPEAR ON THE TOKENS OF

LETTERS. A SUITCASE WILL BE PROVIDED FOR ITS STORAGE AND TRANSPORT. THE DRAWINGS BELOW ILLUSTRATE THE INVENTION, TO KNOW: FIG. 1 REPRESENTS, FROM THE FACE, THE GAME CONSOLE ACCORDING TO THE INVENTION.

THE FOUR PARTS THAT MAKE IT UP ARE INDICATED BY THE NUMBERS 1 - 2 - 3 & 4., THE LEVELS BY 5 & 6,

FIGURE 2 REPRESENTS THE MULTILAN¬ ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY

GUES IN ITS DISC COMPACT FORM:

CD.ROM (COMPACT denies READ ONLY MEMORY) OR C.D. I. (COMPACT DISC INTERACTIVE) THAT ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS.

FIGURE 3 REPRESENTS THE MULTILANGUAGE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY IN ITS MAGNETIC CASSETTE FORM (K.7).

FIGURE 4 REPRESENTS THE ALPHABETIC KEYBOARD WITH THE FUNCTION KEYS SPECIFIC TO THE GAME, A. & B. FIGURE 5 REPRESENTS THE NUMERICAL KEYBOARD WITH IN (C) THE

INDIVIDUAL GAME SWITCHES, IN (D) THE OTHER FUNCTIONAL KEYS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO THE INVENTION. FIGURE 6 REPRESENTS THE EXTERNAL MEMORY. FIGURE 7 REPRESENTS THE ELECTRONIC DISPLAY SYSTEMS

INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE:

E. THE CLOCK, F. THE CALENDAR, G. THE GENERAL COUNTERS, H. THE SCREEN INDICATING, ON THE ONE HAND THE INFORMATION

TO BE RECORDED, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME, IN THE INDIVIDUAL GAME COUNTERS, ON THE OTHER HAND THE INFORMATION THAT IS, DURING THE GAME, RECORDED IN THESE SAME INDIVIDUAL GAME COUNTERS. I. THE INDIVIDUAL GAME SCREENS AND COUNTERS.,

J. THE PRINTER RELEASE,

K. OPENING OF INDIVIDUAL TANKS FOR RECOVERING LETTERS SET OUT OF PLAY. FIGURE 8 REPRESENTS, IN PERSPECTIVE. THE GAME CONSOLE WITH THE PRINTER OUTPUT (J). THEY ARE DISTINGUISHED: 5. THE FIRST LEVEL, 6. THE SECOND LEVEL, 10. THE POSITIONING BASE. FIGURE 9 REPRESENTS THE OPTICAL OR MAGNETIC READING SYSTEM, OPERATING DIRECTLY BETWEEN THE GAME GRID AND THE LETTERED TOKENS.

FIGURE 10 REPRESENTS THE BASE FOR POSITIONING AND ORIENTATION OF THE GAME GRID.

FIGURE 11 REPRESENTS THE FOUR EASELS VIEWED FROM THE FRONT. FIGURE 12 SHOWS, IN SECTION, AN EASEL. FIGURE 13 REPRESENTS THE FOUR EASELS AS SEEN FROM THE BACK. FIGURE 14 REPRESENTS THE FOUR INTENT SIGNALING SIGNS.

FIGURE 15 REPRESENTS THE FOUR INTENT SIGN SIGNS AS SEEN FROM THE BACK.

FIGURE 16 REPRESENTS, IN THE LATIN ALPHABET, AN EXAMPLE OF A DISTRIBUTION OF THE HUNDRED AND FOURTY TWENTY NINE LETTERS (199 LETTERS). PLUS A "GAME OF LETTERS" PLUS: THE GRAPHIC SIGN WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF THE GAME, REPRESENTS EITHER A LINK, A CONJUNCTION OF COORDINATION, A PREPOSITION.

FIGURE 17 REPRESENTS THE GAME GRID. FIGURE 18. SHOWS, IN SECTION, THE POSITION OF THE LETTERED TOKENS ON THE GAME GRID.

FIGURE 19 REPRESENTS, IN PERSPECTIVE, A PARTIAL VIEW OF THE GAME GRID.

THE GAME ACCORDING TO THE INVENTION AND AS DESCRIBED ABOVE, BY ITS

DESIGN, ITS ORGANIZATION; ITS STRUCTURE AND ITS RULES, IS

PARTICULARLY INTENDED: 1º. TO ALLOW LITERAL COMPETITION, AT EQUAL CHANCES

BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

AS SOON AS THE LANGUAGES CONCERNED USE THE SAME

ALPHABET.

ABSTRACTION MADE OF ALL GRAPHIC SIGNS (COMBINING) FOR GIVING A SPECIAL PHONETIC ACCENT TO LETTERS RECEIVING THEM. AND ALSO WITHOUT NECESSARILY, ONE OR THE OTHER OF THE PERSONS HAS KNOWLEDGE, EVEN SUMMARY, OF THE LANGUAGE (S) OF EXPRESSION AND GAME OF SOUND OR

HIS OPPONENTS.

FOR THIS, AND ALSO TO ENSURE A JUST BALANCE OF OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN COMPETITORS, WITH REGARD TO THE FREQUENCY OF USE OF CERTAIN LETTERS FROM AN ALPHABET GIVEN IN THE COMPOSITION OF THE WORDS OF THE VOCABULARY OF CERTAI¬

NES LANGUAGES, UNDER THE RULES OF THE GAME, PROVIDED, IN ADDITION TO THE LANGUAGES OF EXPRESSION AND GAME ANNOUNCED BY EACH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME, THE JOINT USE OF AN AUXILIARY LANGUAGE. FOR EXAMPLE, LATIN WILL ALWAYS BE THE COMMON AUXILIARY LANGUAGE DURING COMPETITION BETWEEN PEOPLE USING LANGUAGES THAT HAVE ADOPTED THE LATIN ALPHABET. 2 °. TO PROMOTE COMMUNICATION AND EXCHANGES BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. 3 °. TO ENABLE, PROMOTE AND FACILITATE LEARNING AND LANGUAGE STUDY, WHILE BEING AN ORIGINAL SUPPORT FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING & VERIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE.

... /

Claims

CLAIMS 1. MULTI-LANGUAGE GAME OF LETTERS CHARACTERIZED IN THAT IT ALLOWS AND ORGANIZES, AT EQUAL CHANCES, LITERAL COMPETITION BETWEEN TWO, THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND CULTURE PERSONS EXPRESSING EACH LANGUAGE . THE ONLY CONDITION BEING THAT THE LANGUAGES CONCERNED USE THE SAME ALPHABET, ABSTRACTION MADE OF ALL GRAPHIC (DIACRITIC) SIGNS INTENDED TO GIVE A PARTICULAR PHONETIC ACCENT TO LETTERS RECEIVING THEM (1).

2. MULTI-LANGUAGE LETTER SET ACCORDING TO THE FOREGOING CLAIM, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT IT CONSISTS, ON AN ELECTRONIC GAME CONSOLE (1 & 8) PROVIDED WITH A GRID FOR THIS PURPOSE (17), TO PLAY TO FORM, HORIZONTALLY AND VERTICALLY, OVERLAPPING WORDS, SUCH AS EACH LETTER OF A WORD HORIZONTALLY ARRANGED INTO THE COMPOSITION OF ANOTHER VERTICALLY ARRANGED WORD (1).

3.GAME OF MULTILANGUAGE LETTERS ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 AND 2

CHARACTERIZED IN THAT, TO ADDRESS DIFFICULTIES IN COMMUNICATION AND VERBAL EXCHANGES, EACH PLAYER HAS FOUR INTENT SIGNALING PLATES (14 & 15), NUMBERED FROM ONE TO FOUR AND, EACH, OF A DIFFERENT COLOR WHICH THEIR ALLOWS, AT ANY TIME DURING THE GAME, TO INTERVENE AND TO EXPRESS CLEARLY ON ALL ITS ASPECTS, ITS RULES, ITS FUNCTIONING. RECTO AND BACK, THEY CARRY EACH, IN TEN LANGUAGES OF THE SAME ALPHABET, THE EXPLANATION OF ITS EXACT MEANING.

4. MULTI-LANGUAGE LETTER GAME ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 - 2 & 3, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT, EACH PLAYER IS AVAILABLE FOR ITS GAME, IN THE FORM OF TOKENS (18) IN THE SAME FORM AND SAME DIMENSIONS AS THE GAME BOX CASES , OF AN IDENTICAL NUMBER OF LETTERS (16) DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THOSE OF THE ALPHABET CONCERNED BY THE GAME.

5.GAME OF MULTILANGUAGE LETTERS ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 - 2 - 3 AND 4, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT, V ALL LETTERS OF THE GAME HAVE, AND KEEP ALL, THE SAME AND UNIQUE VALUE Whatever the language or languages of expression and OF GAME.

6.GAME OF MULTILANGUAGE LETTERS ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 AND 5 CHARACTERIZED IN THAT THE LETTERS AVAILABLE TO EACH PLAYER FOR THE GAME ARE DIFFERENTLY COLORED (1).

7.GAME OF MULTILANGUAGE LETTERS ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 - 2 - 4- AND 5, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT, EACH PLAYER HAS, IN THE LETTERS AT HIS DISPOSAL, A GRAPHIC SIGN (16. L) WHICH ALLOWS HIM TO FORM AND PLACE ON THE GAME GRID, IN ONE OR MORE TIMES, A WORD OR AN EXPRESSION FORMED OF TWO OTHER WORDS RELATED EITHER BY A hyphen (OR IN CERTAIN LANGUAGES THE SPACE PERFORMING THIS FUNCTION), A CONJUNCTION OF COORDINATION, A PREPOSITION.

8.GAME OF MULTILANGUAGE LETTERS ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 - 2 - 4- AND 5, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT, EACH PLAYER, TO POST ITS LETTERS AND TRAIN ITS WORDS, HAS A NUMBERED SIGN (11) WHICH, AT ANY TIME, ALLOWS TO KNOW THE ORDER OF INTERVENTION AND PLAY OF EACH ONE. IN ADDITION, A NUMBERING FROM ONE TO TEN (1 TO 10) PLACED ON EACH BACK (13), ALLOWS AND FACILITATES CONTROL AND RECIPROCAL VERIFICATION THAT EACH NUMBER OF GAMES REQUIRED ACCORDING TO THE RULES OF THE GAME. AND AUTHORIZED.

9. GAME OF MULTILANGUAGE LETTERS ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 - 2 AND ALL THOSE REFERRING DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT IT PRESENTS IN THE FORM OF AN ELECTRONIC GAME CONSOLE ORGANIZED ON TWO LEVELS AND DIVIDED INTO FOUR SEPARATE PARTS (1), CONSISTING OF:

. OF A MULTI-LANGUAGE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY (2 AND 3), REMOVABLE AND INTERCHANGEABLE,. OF AN ALPHABETIC KEYBOARD (4),. A NUMERICAL KEYBOARD (5),. FROM AN EXTERNAL MEMORY (6), AS WELL AS FROM AN INTERNAL MEMORY,. OF A GAME GRID (17),. OF A MONITORING AND VIEWING SCREEN OF THE INFORMATION ENTERED AND EXISTING IN MEMORY ;,. OF AN ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RECORDING AND DISPLAY SYSTEM (7) INCLUDING:

A CLOCK (7.E), A CALENDAR (7.F), GENERAL AND INDIVIDUAL COUNTERS AND SCREENS FOR MARKING, TOTALIZATION, CUMULATION, CONTROL AND VERIFICATION OF INFORMATION, ON THE PART IN GENERAL (7.G) , ON THE GAME OF EACH PLAYER (7. H & 7.I). . FROM A PRINTER (8),

. TWO INTERNAL READING SYSTEMS, ONE FOR MULTI-LANGUAGE DICTIONARY (2 & 3), THE OTHER FOR EXTERNAL MEMORY (6).

10.GAME OF MULTILANGUAGE LETTERS ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 - 2 - 4 5 - 6 AND 9, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT, BETWEEN THE GAME GRID AND THE LETTER TOKENS, A DIRECT, OPTICAL OR MAGNETIC READING SYSTEM (9) WORKS:

. TO INDIVIDUALIZE EACH PLAYER ACCORDING TO THE COLOR OF HIS LETTER SET;

. TO RECOGNIZE EACH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET USED AND,

THEREFORE, TO RECONSTITUTE THE WORDS THAT WILL BE FORMED

ON THE GAME GRID,. TO TAKE THE COUNT OF THE POINTS MARKED AT EACH TURN OF THE GAME, TO ASSIGN THEM TO THE PLAYERS CONCERNED.

THIS INFORMATION IS DIRECTLY RECORDED IN THE INTERNAL MEMORY WHICH WILL CONSTITUTE THE GAME CHART AS IT WAS COMPOSED.

11.GAME OF MULTILANGUAGE LETTERS ACCORDING TO CLAIMS 1 - 2 - 3 4 - 5 - 6 - 9 AND 10, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT THE ELECTRONIC GAME CONSOLE WILL BE PROVIDED:. A BASE FOR ORIENTATION AND GRID POSITIONING

OF GAME,. INDIVIDUAL CONTAINERS FOR RECOVERING LETTERS ELIMINATED,

. FOR ITS POWER SUPPLY AND ITS OPERATION OF A

INDEPENDENTLY, RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES EQUIPPED WITH

VOLTAGE SELECTOR,. OF CONNECTION SOCKETS FOR PERIPHERAL ACCESSORIES FOR RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTING INFORMATION.