DE3319267A1 - Ambivalent dice, or bi-dice for short - Google Patents

Abstract

In order to permit a fundamental change in the known dice games and the development of absolutely novel games with dice, without a comprehensive change in the traditional dice and without an extension to the traditional numeric range of the games, an otherwise unchanged dice is designed as a transparent hollow body and provided with an enclosed, freely movable sphere which, after each throw, comes to rest inside or outside a retaining depression set into the walls of the cavity and, in this manner, provides a random alternative value for the spot score achieved with the dice, for example plus or minus. The basic shape can be extended by producing a further possible position for the sphere in each case.

Description

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The invention relates to game dice.

A cube-shaped solid body is in use since prehistoric times with the numbers from 1 to 6 on its side faces in the form of eyes ", whose Side length usually not less than 10 mm and not more than 25 mm. For the The popularity of the cube as a game device is the traditional combination of its physical characteristics Properties and characteristics related to shape, weight and size, as well as the illiterate = ical number symbolism is decisive.

Draw the possible dice games with the common dice are characterized by their narrow limitation in relation to the number range touched upon. Here is the quantitative limitation that the game does not degenerate into work can be regarded as a constitutive feature of the dice games, but not the qualitative limitation due to the limitation of arithmetic operations to addition; because as a result, the game experiences a naive limitation, that of life experience and does not correspond to the contemporary attitude to life.

The state of the art is a series of changes in the shape of the conventional one Spiewurfels, which the modern technical possibilities of making more transparent small hollow body with precisely shaped hollow space used to create the clearance of the game of dice in terms of the positive number range and / or inclusion of elements of other common games of chance with rolling and rotating bodies, such as lottery and roulette, or through the possibility of introducing various well-known Image = symbols, to that extent to be expanded quantitatively, or without any intention to change for the game forms only the geometric shape of the cube to change front (G 8124 861). In this case, the walls of the transparent hollow bodies Can have collecting channels or troughs, further rolling elements with or without liquid locked in.

All of these innovations have differed from the usual game dice not enforced. Apparently they lack the physical characteristics that the The popularity of the common cube as a game device, and the purely quantitative, more or less limitless expansion of the scope that is intended with them is not perceived as attractive enough.

On the other hand, according to the invention, with the aid of a sensorially easy comprehensible geometric complement to the traditional cube shape a fundamental, qualitative change in common dice games achieved and the development structurally new dice games are made possible by together with the respective A random alternative scoring, e.g. plus or minus, is rolled.

For this purpose, the other body characteristics and properties are preserved of the common dice under the invention novel and ver simpler Use of design elements from the prior art following change in shape made: The cube closes as a transparent hollow body (1), its cube-shaped Provide a hollow space on the inner surfaces with a collecting trough (2) in the middle is a freely moving sphere. Depending on whether the ball (3) after the throw comes to lie in or outside the catch basin, is the number of dice rolled e.g.

to be evaluated positively or negatively.

To influence the frequency of the various ratings and in order to avoid a displacement of the ball even with slight jolts the; edge of the collecting troughs received a bead.

for a -; a-ititstive game variant can concer, t.-st around the catch basin another bead can be placed, leaving three scoring positions for the ball arise: In the collecting trough, next to the collecting trough, in the cavity = corners, - for e.g. positive or negative or double valuation.

To add to the total weight of the cube and the movements of the ball influence, and in order to achieve a special sensory stimulus, the The cavity can be filled with a colorless or colored liquid.

The ball can be made of a specifically light or heavy material, e.g. heavy metal.

The advantages of such a play device are considerable. Of the The appeal of the classic cube, based on its traditional shape and shape Body properties is not supported by a large number of added new design elements, by an all too obvious technical modernity and by a technical one conditional increase in volume disturbed and impaired. The one included in the cube single ball is likely to increase the emotional appeal of the cube.

With the geometrically simple addition to the game device results However, a fundamental change in dice games. Without expanding the traditional number space is namely a decisive extension of the scope that achieves the risk, the drama and the realism of the game by introducing it the value ambivalence increases significantly. You can play the well-known dice games the dice according to the invention are played in a fundamentally new way.

Finally, the cube according to the invention allows structural development novel games; instead of the usual competition for the positive maximum from a zero or center point of pendulum movements between two contrasting ones Poles such as plus-minus, right-left, up-down, front-back, include.

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Claims (8)

Claims Cld si-cube, characterized in that the usual Playing dice while maintaining its properties in terms of shape, size and Weight designed as a transparent hollow body and with a freely movable, enclosed ball is provided on each cavity = side in or outside a central collecting trough can come to rest. 2o Bi-cube according to claim 1, characterized in that by the alternative positions of the ball an alternative scoring of the rolled number he follows. 3. Bi-cube according to claims 1 and 2, characterized = characterized, that with him a fundamental change in all known games in which the Cube as a game device plays a role, is made possible, namely by the introduction the positive-negative or forward-backward or left-right: movement. 4. Bi-cube according to claims 1 to 3, characterized = characterized that structurally novel dice games are made possible with it. So Bi-Würf egg according to claims 1 to 4, characterized in that that with it new types of dice games are made possible through the implementation of the throwing results in alternative-directed movements of game characters. 6. Bi-cube according to claims 1 and 2, characterized = characterized that the edges of the collecting troughs can hold a bead to allow a change in position avoiding the ball without throwing the dice. 7. Bi-cube according to claims 1 and 2, characterized = characterized that the cavity can be filled with a liquid. 8. Bi-cube according to claims 1 and 2, characterized = characterized, that the ball made of a specifically light or heavy material, for example Heavy metal, can exist.