DE2511838A1 - DICE AND GAME OR TEACHING MEANS - Google Patents

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80UU Munich 80 Mühldorfstrasse

Telephone (089) 496872 Telegrams patemus some Post check Munich 39418-802 Bank ReuBchel & Co Munich 830820

Patent attorney Dr.-Ing. R. Liesegang

JEAN MICHEL SIMERAY
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Dice and game or teaching aids

The invention relates to a dice and a game or teaching aid using this dice. A particularly interesting one Application arises when the cube has letters or other characters of a language or figures on its faces or the like, in which it enables words or combinations of other usual characters to be put together.

A number of such dice can form the basic components of a board game or educational game. The players throw all the dice one after the other and form words from the letters and / or figures that appear on the, for example, horizontal _/ upper surface of the dice after the throw on each dice, according to the rules set out in advance by the winner (s).

Games that are used to form words are already known and use, for example:

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- Tiles that are distributed to each player and bear letters or groups of letters. In this game, the number of possible combinations decreases with the course of the game, so that the Game stimulus is reduced accordingly;

- Cubes with six faces bearing engraved letters and / or figures. The players roll the dice and form with the letters and / or figures words. The number of possible combinations remains throughout Play the same. However, although they include multiple dice, these games allow for the number of them Surfaces and the corresponding number of characters do not have a large number of combinations (words). she therefore do not allow the possibilities of a language to be exhausted, so that playful stimulus and possibilities are limited. In order to eliminate these disadvantages, it is advisable to use a very large number of the usual dice to use with six faces. However, studies by the inventor have shown that the number of hexahedral Cube would have to be enlarged to get the desired combination width. Practically, however don't play with such a large number of dice.

The invention therefore proposes a different approach, which in principle assumes a regular body with a to provide a larger number of surfaces than before.

The inventor has made extensive studies in this direction. In particular, he has a new cube with 8 faces and tested a new cube with 2o faces. It has been found that the cube with 8 faces is not yet a satisfactory one This brings progress over the classic cube because it does not accommodate enough characters or letters

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to be able to form the desired large number of words. In the case of the cube with 20 faces it has been shown that he can hold a sufficient number of characters or letters to make up the number of words desired. However has This cube with 2o surfaces has two practical disadvantages, namely a low stability combined with difficulties in ablessing the upper horizontal surface especially when a large number of cubes are used. These practical drawbacks could be avoided if the cube is given a very large shape, but this is not practical for the application of a such dice in a game of the type described above. For these reasons, the cube with 20 faces was not implemented.

In the further course of his investigations, the inventor also tested a body with 12 surfaces and this as for the Problem solving found most suitable and without the disadvantages described above. The invention is accordingly thereby characterized in that the cube is formed by a regular body with 12 surfaces, which sensually, in particular visually, carry perceptible signs. Each of the 12 areas of the body has a letter or a symbol.

In the context of the investigations mentioned, the inventor has in particular found that a number of 11 cubes according to the invention is sufficient to form the majority of all Form words in French or other languages based on an alphabet with a similar number of letters. In a preferred embodiment it is provided that the regular body by removing 12 spherical caps from a ball is preserved. The base circles of the spherical caps can be tangent to one another and areas of the spherical surface between them leave to allow the cube to roll more easily, or the base circles can intersect so that the faces are essentially limited by straight edges. Also in this

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In this case, the corners can be rounded. The dimensions of the new cubes are such that the distance between two opposite Area corresponds to that of a normal cube. The cubes according to the invention can be made of any suitable material such as plastic or wood and made, for example, by cutting, casting or injection molding, blow molding or the like will.

The dice or only certain dice in the game can also have a figure on one or more of their surfaces replaces a letter, e.g. B. a star, as shown in Fig. 2 on a surface.

In a particularly suitable for the French language execution of a game or teaching aid with dice according to the In the invention, the letters are distributed on the 12 faces of each of the 11 cubes according to Table I, with each column showing the letters or characters on a cube includes:

Table I.

1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 , P N K P. M. K G 0 U K L. J K ' Q W. Y Z B. C. D. M. F. G H - L • s · P. N R. S. ■ τ N L. R. S. P. B. C. D. P. G H P. M. L. R. S. T V R. V D. N R. B. C. M. T L. T P. N M. V 'S S. H _- P. N C. M. P. P. R. p. T E. E. E. E. 'E E. E. E. E. E. E / A. A. A. I. A. A. I. A. A. A. A. I. I. U 0 U I. E. U. I. U E. 0 U 0 U 0 0 U I. 0 0 I. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. JS I.
E. E. E.

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In another version, which is particularly suitable for the English language, each of the 11 cubes has 12 letters or symbols according to the corresponding columns in Table II:

Table II

ι ι 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 B. C. D. P. G H K J Q X Z L. M. N P. R. S. T V W. B. C. D. F. G H K L. M. N ' P. R. S. T V W. B. C. D. F. G H K L. M. N P. R. S. T V W. D. H N R. L. R. T W. N L. R. S. T D. G T S. N it ti A. E. E. E. E. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. O O 0 0 O 0 o ■ 0 0 0 0 U U Y U Y U Y U Y U I.

The total number of cubes, the number of faces of each cube, and the distribution of letters on the faces of each cube are such that they

- a distribution of vowels and consonants (n vowels / m consonants) ensure a given distribution according to a representative statistical analysis of the language in question

z. B. corresponds to the French language;

- allow a very large number of words to be formed;

- the high frequency of use of certain letters compared to others, e.g. B. the letter E in French Take language into account.

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■ The application of the dice according to the invention in a game or Teaching aids enable the participant to draw on tens of thousands of words. This has the double advantage that the less educated players are offered the opportunity due to the variety of choices of letters, easily to form simple words and that the educated players are given the opportunity to delimit a specific area which you have to limit yourself in the choice of words, whereby the rich choice of letters also allow special words to be formed.

The invention and advantageous details of the invention are explained in more detail below with reference to schematic drawings of exemplary embodiments with further details. Show it:

1 is an enlarged view illustrating the formation of a regular body according to the invention;

Figure 2 is a view of a completed cube according to the invention;

Fig. 3 is a view of a & bgewanäelten cube according to the invention?

4 shows a further modified variant of a cube according to the invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 denotes a ball, of which 12 domes 2 are removed along planes, of which one perpendicular to the plane of the drawing is denoted by A-A. This creates 12 circular areas 3 formed on the ball 1, which touch each other at points B1, B2, B3, etc. and between them areas 4 of the ball surface leave. These areas enable the

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bodies formed a better roll when throwing or throwing the dice.

Fig. 2 shows a completed cube, for example can be used in a game with a total of 11 such dice. This cube has letters and in one of the faces Area provided a figure, namely a star.

The number of faces of each cube, the number of faces in a game The cubes used and the distribution of the letters on each of these cubes are given here as an example of an application, sufficient to form a sufficient number of combinations. For example, with an arrangement as shown in Table I specified letters can easily be formed a thousand words with 11 letters, these words in very special letter combinations can be formed, e.g. B. the word "TROTTINETTE", which contains the letter T five times. This illustrates the Variety of choices available to the players or users offer this cube, for example, for learning purposes. It stands to reason that the factors mentioned such as the nature of the land arranged letters to adapt to a language or to adapt to special relationships of the distribution of letters can be changed in a given alphabet or, finally, for the purpose of finding particular combinations of letters, characters or characters that one wants to form and are of a very different kind from the words of a language, but clearly represent combinations that usually have a meaning have, depending on the use as a game, teaching aid or the like.

Fig. 3 shows a modified cube that you created as a result can think that just as in Fig. 1 spherical caps have been removed from a sphere whose green circles are in opposition to Fig. 1 no longer only tangent, but intersect in such a way that a regular dodecahedron is formed. Whether circular areas or pentagonal surfaces are obtained, depends only on the height of the removed dome with respect to the radius of the starting sphere.

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In particular, if you have an average ratio of this height to the Radius selects between the ratios in which tangential circular surfaces or pentagonal surfaces are obtained, intersect the base areas of the removed domes only partially match, and a cube such as that shown in FIG. 4 is obtained, for example is shown. In this cube, parts of the edges are straight and other parts are curved.

You will then choose one of the embodiments described, whether the cube to be created should roll very well (Fig. 2), moderately well (Fig. 4) or poorly (Fig. 3).

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Claims (12)

8000 Munich 80 Mühldorfstrasse 25 Patent attorney Dr.-Ing. R. Liesegang Telephone (089) 496872 telegrams patemus munich JEAN MICHEL SIMERAY
P o45o6 Expectations (IJ cube, characterized that it is designed as a regular body (1) with 12 surfaces (3) which carry sensually perceptible characters. 2. Cube according to claim 1, characterized in that that the characters of letters of the alphabet and / or other characters and / or rktograms and / or digits are formed. 3. Cube according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that that at least one of the surfaces (3) carries a figure. 4. Cube according to one of claims 1 to 3, d a d u r ch characterized in that the regular body (1) is a dodecahedron with rounded corners. - Io 509839/0340 5. Cube according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the regular body is obtained by removing 12 spherical caps (2) from one sphere (1). 6. Cube according to claim 5, characterized in that that the base circles Bl, B2, B3 of the spherical caps (2) tangent to one another and outside the base circles surface areas (4) the ball will stop. 7. Cube according to claim 5, characterized in that that the base circles of the spherical caps intersect each other in such a way that each of the 12 surfaces has at least one forms partially straight edge with neighboring surfaces, 8. Game or teaching aids, characterized in that that it has at least two cubes designed according to one of claims 1 to 7. 9. game or teaching aid according to claim 8, characterized in that at least two dice one bear different distribution of characters on their faces. 10. game or teaching aid according to claim 8 or 9, characterized characterized in that in the case of letters arranged individually on the surfaces, the ratio of the number of consonants to the number of vowels varies with the language chosen. 11. game or teaching aid according to one of claims 8 to Io, characterized in that it comprises 11 cubes having letters in an array on their faces according to Table I. 503839 / Ö340 - 11 - 12. game or teaching aid according to one of claims 8 to lo, characterized in that it comprises 11 cubes having letters in one on their faces Distribution according to Table II. 509839/0340