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EP0769314A2
EP0769314A2 EP96116377A EP96116377A EP0769314A2 EP 0769314 A2 EP0769314 A2 EP 0769314A2 EP 96116377 A EP96116377 A EP 96116377A EP 96116377 A EP96116377 A EP 96116377A EP 0769314 A2 EP0769314 A2 EP 0769314A2
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Jean Bauer
Jean-Philippe Lebet
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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
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/00173—Characteristics of game boards, alone or in relation to supporting structures or playing piece
    • A63F3/00574—Connections between board and playing pieces
    • 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
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/12—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
    • 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
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/00697—Playing pieces
    • A63F2003/00716—Connectable or stackable playing pieces or parts thereof
    • 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
    • A63F9/001—Games or toys connected to, or combined with, other objects; Objects with a second use as a toy or game
    • A63F2009/0033—Display or decorative devices
    • A63F2009/0035—Display or decorative devices on a pedestal or stand
    • 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
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/00173—Characteristics of game boards, alone or in relation to supporting structures or playing piece
    • A63F3/00214—Three-dimensional game boards

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  • the present invention relates to a game.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a game which is both recreational and educational, developing in particular the thinking skills of the player and which, moreover, allows, using the same equipment, to play according to rules of games of different difficulties depending on the age or ability of the players.
  • the invention also relates to a method of manufacturing this game defined in claim 12.
  • Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of the game.
  • Fig. 2 is a perspective view of part of this game.
  • Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an element of this game.
  • Fig. 4 is an exploded view of the part of the game shown in FIG. 3.
  • Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a variant of this game.
  • Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a detail of this variant.
  • Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of the game.
  • Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a detail of this second embodiment.
  • the game shown in fig. 1 comprises a full stack 1 of regular elementary polyhedra 2 constituted by rhombic dodecahedrons, the number of which, per layer, decreases from bottom to top.
  • the stack has the shape of a pyramid. Its faces have recessed parts due to the very nature of the rhombic dodecahedrons 2.
  • the dodecahedra 2 are placed "on point", that is to say that they have one of their vertices facing downwards.
  • the dodecahedrons of the lower layer are partially engaged in cells with square opening 3 which has a base 4 made of cardboard or plastic, for example.
  • the dodecahedrons 2 may have their vertices rounded. They will be made of cardboard, plastic or wood. In carrying plastic, they will preferably two identical 2 shaped pieces has shaped hulls, reported to one another permanently, as indicated in fig. 4. Each part will have male and female elements, not shown in the drawing, intended to cooperate to ensure their assembly.
  • the faces of the dodecahedra 2 have a different appearance, of two types.
  • the faces of the same type may be identical or different provided that they have distinctive characters indicating that they belong to the same "family"; these families can be characterized in different ways: color, even and odd numbers, for example, various patterns linked by the same common theme, different for each family, etc.
  • the faces of a type have been shown in white and those of the other type in the shaded state.
  • the blank from which they are formed that is to say the blank being in the developed state, can be printed flat, then folded in order to form the parts 2 a .
  • the game will be accompanied by a single or multiple rule which will command the player (s) to place the elementary polyhedra, to make the compound polyhedron, in such a way that the faces of different appearance of said elementary polyhedra are presented in a configuration imposed or according to an imposed rule.
  • the elementary polyhedra are constituted by regular rhombic dodecahedra.
  • the polyhedron compound 1 produced by their stacking is of general pyramidal shape. Its faces have recessed parts due to the very nature of the rhombic dodecahedrons 2.
  • the elementary polyhedra consist of regular rhombic dodecahedra 5 identical to those of the first embodiment, with two different surface aspects, but which are stacked so as to constitute a polyhedron compound 6 in the form of a tetrahedron.
  • the base designated by 7, has cells with triangular opening 8.
  • the assembly of FIG. 5 has been produced in such a way that, on the left face of this figure, all the faces of the inclined elementary dodecahedra 2 are of one type, while all the vertical faces are of the second type.
  • the stack In the embodiment of figs. 7 and 8, the stack, generally designated by 9 (fig. 7), is formed of regular octahedra 10 and regular tetrahedra 11. They have been identified by the letters "O" and "T”. This stacking consists of a pyramid produced using the base 12 shown in FIG. 8, the cells of which, designated by 13, with a square opening, are arranged in a square.
  • the aspects of their faces may be not only of two different types, one half of their faces having an appearance of one type and the other half of the other type, as in the examples described and represented, but that their faces may have three different types of appearance, a third having an appearance of a first type, a third of a second type and the third third of the third type.
  • the aspects of their faces may be of three different types, a third of said faces having an appearance of each type or a quarter of their faces having an appearance of a first type, a quarter of a second type and half of a third type.
  • the aspects of their faces could be of four different types, a quarter of their faces having an aspect of each type. They could also have their faces with six different types of appearance, one sixth of their faces having an appearance of each type.
EP96116377A 1995-10-19 1996-10-12 Spiel Expired - Lifetime EP0769314B1 (de)

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EP0769314A2 true EP0769314A2 (de) 1997-04-23
EP0769314A3 EP0769314A3 (de) 1997-12-03
EP0769314B1 EP0769314B1 (de) 2002-12-11

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US4257609A (en) * 1978-09-15 1981-03-24 Squibbs Robert F Games and puzzles
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JPH09182874A (ja) 1997-07-15
EP0769314A3 (de) 1997-12-03

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