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EP0190876A2
EP0190876A2 EP86300603A EP86300603A EP0190876A2 EP 0190876 A2 EP0190876 A2 EP 0190876A2 EP 86300603 A EP86300603 A EP 86300603A EP 86300603 A EP86300603 A EP 86300603A EP 0190876 A2 EP0190876 A2 EP 0190876A2
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bricks
wall
special
game according
courses
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EP0190876A3 (en
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Robert Hay-Smith
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Waddingtons Games Ltd
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Waddingtons Games Ltd
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    • 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
    • A63F9/0073—Games for obtaining a particular arrangement of playing pieces in a plane or space

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  • This invention relates to equipment to enable a novel game to be played, which equipment is preferably in the form of a box game incorporating rules.
  • the idea underlying the game is that the players or contestants should attempt to remove specified bricks from a wall without causing the wall to collapse, the players or contestants possibly receiving points or prizes for each brick successfully removed.
  • I provide a game comprising a plurality of bricks adapted to be assembled into a wall having several courses of overlapping bricks, the bricks being of several different colours, or being otherwise marked to be distinguishable from one another, and a random chance selector to enable bricks of one particular colour or marking incorporated into the wall to be selected at random for removal from the wall.
  • the bricks may all be marked with varying numbers of points, the purpose of which is explained hereinafter.
  • the game may also include a device for dest f bilising the wall, for example a suspended weight which can be allowed to swing into contact with the wall so that it displaces one or more bricks (but does not actually cause the wall to collapse) unless it has already been destabilised, in which case collapse could occur.
  • the bricks to be assembled to form the wall may include one or more special bricks to be incorporated into the top course of bricks in the wall, so that when such a special top course brick has fallen out of the wall, the wall is deemed to have collapsed.
  • the random chance indicator may, for example, be one or more dice, a spinner, or an electronic random indicating device.
  • the game playing equipment may also include a pusher rod or other device to enable a player to push a selected brick out of the wall without otherwise touching the wall, e.g. with his hands.
  • the equipment may also include a base of the same length as the assembled wall and of the same thickness as one of the bricks, on which the wall is to be constructed. This enables the wall to be constructed more easily on uneven surfaces.
  • the assembled wall is preferably rectangular in shape, and therefore to enable the wall to be constructed with overlapping courses of bricks, a number of bricks which are half of the length of the remaining bricks are preferably provided to form the two ends of alternate courses.
  • At least one complete top course of the above-mentioned special bricks is provided, and these special bricks are thinner than the other bricks. More preferably, the game incorporates two overlapping courses of the special top bricks and these bricks are one half of the thickness of the other bricks. Each half-length brick which is to form an end of one of these two courses is preferably joined to or integral with the full-length special brick which lies either directly above it or below it in the other of these two courses.
  • the equipment includes a wall-destabilising device as mentioned above, it preferably also includes a further random chance indicator to indicate whether or not the destabilising device is to be brought into use at a particular point in the game.
  • This second random chance indicator may for example be one or more dice, a spinner, a disc having different markings on its two sides, or an electronic random chance selector.
  • the destabilising device could be brought into operating if a player had failed to remove a brick within a given time when it was his turn to do so.
  • the apparatus for this variation comprises a plurality of bricks (including two rows of special bricks for the top course, and sufficient half bricks to enable two rectangular walls with overlapping courses to be constructed), a random chance indicator to select the bricks to be removed, and two pusher rods (one for each player) to push selected bricks out of the walls.
  • each player may refuse to remove a brick once only during the game, when it would otherwise be his turn to do so.
  • the game playing equipment may include sufficient bricks for the construction of only one wall, so that the players take turns at removing bricks from the same wall.
  • the equipment includes a total of 27 full-thickness bricks 1, six full-thickness half bricks 2, seven half- thickness special bricks 3 for the top two courses and two L-shaped special bricks 4 comprising a brick 3 and, superimposed thereon, a half-length portion of a brick 3.
  • the whole bricks 1 and half bricks 2 are of a number of different colours, e.g. six colours.
  • the special bricks 3 and 4 are of a seventh colour and are to form the top two courses 5 and 6 of the wall.
  • the wall assembled from these bricks has six overlapping courses 5 of differently- coloured full-thickness bricks, alternate courses comprising respectively five whole bricks 1, and four whole bricks 1 and two half bricks 2, as shown.
  • the top two courses 6 are of the special bricks 3 and 4 which are all of a single colour which is not used for the bricks 1 and 2. It will be noted that, as shown in Fig. 1, the bricks of the lower course of special bricks are aligned with the bricks of the course immediately below, and not staggered as with all other adjacent courses of bricks.
  • the random indicator (not shown) is arranged to indicate at random any of the six colours of the bricks other than the special top course bricks. It may for example be a spinner having sectors of these six colours, or a dice having faces of the six colours.
  • the pusher-rod (Fig. 2) comprises an alongated handle 8 and a thickened end 9 for contact with the wall, for example in the shape of a boxing-glove.
  • Fig. 3 shows the construction of the full-length bricks 1 and the half-length bricks 2.
  • Each of these bricks is formed of a plastics material and comprises a hollow member 10, 10a in the form of an open box and a cover plate 11, lla to be fixed thereto.
  • the cover plates 11,11a are marked or coloured to enable the completed bricks to be distinguished; the hollow members 10 and 10a can therefore all be identical.

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EP86300603A 1985-02-05 1986-01-29 Game Withdrawn EP0190876A3 (en)

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GB858502918A GB8502918D0 (en) 1985-02-05 1985-02-05 Game
GB8502918 1985-02-05

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EP0190876A2 true EP0190876A2 (de) 1986-08-13
EP0190876A3 EP0190876A3 (en) 1987-08-19

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DK (1) DK48386A (de)
GB (1) GB8502918D0 (de)

Cited By (10)

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US4936575A (en) * 1989-04-10 1990-06-26 Ortiz Emilio H Stacked element removal game including cards bearing different stack patterns
US5037091A (en) * 1990-03-12 1991-08-06 Hagood Thomas A Block stack game with magnetic extractor
ES2050622A1 (es) * 1992-11-06 1994-05-16 Consejo Superior Investigacion Producto alimentario tipo hamburguesa a base de musculo de cefalopodo y su procedimiento de obtencion.
US5611544A (en) * 1995-11-27 1997-03-18 Pokonobe Associates Stacking brick tower game
WO1997026961A1 (en) * 1996-01-26 1997-07-31 Irwin Toy Limited Stacking block game and game blocks therefor
GB2344293A (en) * 1998-12-03 2000-06-07 Brian Higgins Game apparatus
US6161832A (en) * 1999-01-29 2000-12-19 Irwin Toy Limited Stacking block game
US6679496B2 (en) 2000-01-07 2004-01-20 Pokonobe Associates Activity-directed stacking piece game
US6702291B2 (en) 2000-01-07 2004-03-09 Pokonobe Associates Stacking block game
US20230028725A1 (en) * 2021-07-21 2023-01-26 Terry Long Block Stacking Game

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GB623107A (en) * 1947-01-30 1949-05-12 Margaret Lowenfeld A set of blocks for carrying out psychological tests
US3712616A (en) * 1970-09-29 1973-01-23 A Goldfarb Stacked element removal game
US3863918A (en) * 1973-12-10 1975-02-04 George A Kramer Building block game
US4215858A (en) * 1978-04-24 1980-08-05 Olsen Eric H Game apparatus
GB2130105A (en) * 1982-09-22 1984-05-31 Leslie Ann Scott Brick games

Cited By (11)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4936575A (en) * 1989-04-10 1990-06-26 Ortiz Emilio H Stacked element removal game including cards bearing different stack patterns
US5037091A (en) * 1990-03-12 1991-08-06 Hagood Thomas A Block stack game with magnetic extractor
ES2050622A1 (es) * 1992-11-06 1994-05-16 Consejo Superior Investigacion Producto alimentario tipo hamburguesa a base de musculo de cefalopodo y su procedimiento de obtencion.
US5611544A (en) * 1995-11-27 1997-03-18 Pokonobe Associates Stacking brick tower game
WO1997026961A1 (en) * 1996-01-26 1997-07-31 Irwin Toy Limited Stacking block game and game blocks therefor
US6022026A (en) * 1996-01-26 2000-02-08 Irwin Toy Limited Method of playing a stacking block game and game blocks therefor
GB2344293A (en) * 1998-12-03 2000-06-07 Brian Higgins Game apparatus
US6161832A (en) * 1999-01-29 2000-12-19 Irwin Toy Limited Stacking block game
US6679496B2 (en) 2000-01-07 2004-01-20 Pokonobe Associates Activity-directed stacking piece game
US6702291B2 (en) 2000-01-07 2004-03-09 Pokonobe Associates Stacking block game
US20230028725A1 (en) * 2021-07-21 2023-01-26 Terry Long Block Stacking Game

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AU5297986A (en) 1986-08-14
DK48386D0 (da) 1986-01-31
EP0190876A3 (en) 1987-08-19
DK48386A (da) 1986-08-06

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