ES2291104A1 - Novel table game - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a novel table game which can be used for learning a foreign language. The inventive game is characterised in that it consists of a board comprising two stacked parallel sheets. A set of circular tokens, which are made from metal or which comprise a metal core, are inserted between the aforementioned sheets (by means of side slots) and are moved using an external magnetic piece. According to the invention, the winner is the person who collects a pre-fixed number of tokens, said tokens containing different types of information (name, colour, size and number). Once a token has been extracted via a slot, said token can only be collected if the player provides a correct answer according to a level of difficulty selected at the beginning of the game. In addition to the board and the tokens, the game also comprises thematic boxes, an illustrated thematic dictionary (optional) and an instruction booklet as well as, for each player, an external magnetic piece, a strip for supporting and inserting the tokens and, for players over 7, a ball-point pen and a book.

Description

New board game.

Technical field

The object of the present invention is a game of table based on a board of two opaque sheets between which they introduce a series of chips attractive by an external magnet that manipulate the player. The special features of these components and a special procedure allow you to make a game didactic complex.

Prior art

There are other games on the market that use these components, but they are basically of luck and skill because they reduce to get chips that have little or no information. Normally, the chips are removed by holes in the board top sheet, which limits the playing surface and allows players to locate them. Other games of this type may have some complexity because their goal is not that of remove the chips but place them inside the board in a way determined, for this they need their upper sheet to be transparent. In other cases, and with a similar purpose, the board is fully enclosed to prevent the involuntary exit of the chips. Patents ES1028275, US0050461, FR2511882, GB2083368 and FR81166084 can help to know the state of the art in the field corresponding to the present invention.

Summary

The new board game is an attempt to overcome the difficulties described above, for this purpose it modifies substantially the cited components and relates them in such a way that, using an appropriate procedure, an educational game is achieved of questions and answers whose complexity is far superior to that of The existing ones. The game includes:

1. Board with side slots. - The board is preferably square and formed by two thin opaque sheets overlapping about 30 cm. sideways. Both sheets are joined by a perimeter band that keeps them uniformly separated more than double the thickness of the chips (about 6 mm). In the upper part of this band, slots are made that only allow the exit of chips if they are dragged and magnetically directed by a pawn with a magnetic base that the player slides on the top sheet. The position of the grooves, preferably in the center or at the corners of the sides, can be indicated on the top sheet as outputs 1, 2, 3 and 4 (fig. 1) as well as the possible sizes of the drawings that appear in the chips.

At the end of the game, if the board is one piece, is invested to eject the remaining chips by same slots that were used to introduce them. The board magnetically attractive chip holder with grooves in the Upper part of the band has the following advantages:

one.

Take full advantage of the playing surface

2.

He dragging a token is not hindered by any other within of the board.

3.

Hide the tiles completely under one surface without holes.

Four.

Have large capacity to house chips, since the use of slots it requires a greater distance between the parallel sheets.

5.

Prevents unwanted output of records.

6.

It allows the controlled passage of cards dragged and directed by an outer magnetized pawn.

7.

Alone It allows the passage of a chip per roll.

Board types: The simplest board has both sheets glued so you need some strips (fig. 8) -whose thickness reaches the bottom side of the grooves- to facilitate the initial introduction of tokens.

Other boards can prolong the sheet bottom in the grooves area so that it serves as the basis for Enter the chips, replacing the strips.

Other boards that do not require strips can have moving upper or lower sheets, folding or slideable (figs. 7 and 8).

2. Thematic files .- Circles of plastic, wood or cardboard of 2 mm. thick and about 4 cm. in diameter in which a generally metallic component is introduced to make them magnetically attractive.

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The chips have complex information - which Includes drawings, numbering, words and colors- required of players. This information is distributed between your two faces (in forward we will call them superior and inferior attending to their position inside the board) so that the words written are exclusively on the upper face (fig. 3) and they constitute the answer or information that the player needs Know to get the piece. The underside of each tab (fig. 4), which is the question to be solved, is formed by a number and a flat and arbitrary color figure (in each group of chips that are entered on the board will be all colors basic).

The chips are extracted through the slots with help of a magnetized pawn whose large base completely conceals the face top -written- of the chip while showing the players the lower face (fig. 5). For the pawn to fulfill this double function is essential that the cards are introduced in the board with face written up, this way the answer remains hidden - first by the top sheet of the board and then at the base of the pawn - until all players have answered.

The upper face (fig. 3) is divided into four equal parts, corresponding to size, color, number and name of the figure represented on the lower face. These characteristics they are written next to the edge of each room in language alien with blue capital letters (next to a circle that includes a blue pencil). In the central part of each room write, with red lowercase letters, the approximate pronunciation in the mother tongue of the border inscription (a red mouth drawn in the center of the file as indicated). If the figurative pronunciation is considered difficult to apply, mouth and the red letters would disappear (only the letters would remain capital letters).

If the foreign language has some rules for decide the order in which the four sections relate to each other provided (size, color, number and name), each quadrant will have a white color for which it is said last and, following the traffic light colors, red, yellow and green for those who say first, second and third place, respectively.

Of each subject (the usual ones in the first language teaching courses, such as animals, the house, furniture ...) about ten drawings are selected (although there may be themes with a single drawing) which, changing in size, number or color they will represent in different cards until reaching 20 or 30 cards They are introduced inside the board to start the game.

3. Pawn-magnet outside .- Preferably a cylinder of about 3 cm. high and almost 6 cm. in diameter at the bottom of which a small but powerful central magnet is inserted. To get the chips, the player slides his pawn straight across the surface of the board from any point to his own exit slot. In addition to taking out the cards, the pawn has other functions: to show the lower face or question while hiding the response of the written face with its large base (fig. 5). To show the question, just turn it around but the solution is hidden until all the players give, in order and starting with the one who extracts the chip, an answer. Then the magnet sheet is detached to know the written face.

4. Strip. - To place the pieces obtained, each player will have a strip of about 15 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, with a 5 mm flange. high -which will not affect one of its major sides- (fig. 8). Its base will reach the height of the grooves of the board to facilitate the introduction of chips at the start of the game. The use of strips is optional except if the board has the sheets glued.

5. Illustrated brochure. - You will have the necessary instructions to overcome each level of difficulty. Several examples will be given as role models. The brochure will necessarily change depending on the language, since the use of each language has its own rules.

6. Notebook and pen .- For players who choose levels of difficulty that include writing, in addition to giving the required oral information, write it without errors.

7. Thematic boxes. - The cards will be grouped by themes. The thematic boxes, which can be of different shapes and sizes, will collect all the cards of the same theme.

The issues to which we refer are those that they study in the first levels of language learning, such as numbers, colors, domestic and wild animals, the House...

8. Illustrated dictionary (optional) .- It will show the topics included in the game, along with the drawings printed on the cards. Each drawing will have two inscriptions: in blue capital letters its name in foreign language and in red lowercase its pronunciation figurative in mother tongue. This dictionary is optional because the tabs already include this information.

The materials, shapes, dimensions and inscriptions of The present invention may vary as long as it is not altered, change or modify the essentials of the above exposed. Difficulty levels

Examples to overcome them will be given in the illustrated brochure. Just by saying the name of the captured figure
-pronunciation figurative in mother tongue- level 1 will be achieved. If the element is said with its size -in English: big, medium, small- in the necessary order, level 2 will be reached. To master level 3 the level 3 will be said figure with your number, and to achieve level 4, it will be necessary to say the name with its color. Several more levels can be done by combining the previous elements three by three until you say the four elements in their correct order. All levels cited are oral skills (red letters with pronunciation listed on the cards) but there will also be levels for writing, optional and reserved for children over 7 years, where, in addition to saying the corresponding names, they must be written without error (blue capital letters) in notebooks. The written part adds new levels of difficulty to the previous ones so that the game has more than a dozen levels, which could still be expanded including complementary pieces, which adapts perfectly to the educational needs of children between 6 and 12 years old .

Game procedure

Once players (up to four) choose by drawing the first player (the turn continues on the right) and this one decide the subject, the level of difficulty and the number of chips that are need to win, the game procedure is the next:

a) The chips are placed on the board with the written face (fig. 3) up

b) The players, in turn, try to extract the chips through the slots sliding the magnetized pawn over the playing surface

c) The pawn hides the upper face and shows all players the bottom side of the card drawn supporting on the board its non-magnetized base (fig. 5)

d) The players, starting with the one who captures the piece, try to answer the question posed by the face bottom of the card (fig. 4) according to a difficulty level chosen one.

e) The magnet sheet is detached to know the correct answer (written face).

f) The chip is given to the player who answers adequately.

g) The winner is the first to get a certain number of chips.

Description of the drawings

Figure 1 is a top view of the board play with indication of the position of the slots (outputs) and of the circles that - optionally - represent the sizes of the records.

Figure 2 is a side view of the board with a slot in its upper part.

Figure 3 represents the upper face (answer) of a record.

Figure 4 represents the bottom face (question) of a record.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the pawn magnetized showing all players the underside of the tab taken from the board.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of a board with swing top sheet.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of a board with sliding top sheet.

Figure 8 is a perspective view of a strip

Claims (11)

1. New board game consisting basically of some chips, a board formed by two parallel sheets and a pawn with magnetized base. The board has two thin opaque sheets overlays of plastic material between which the chips, which are magnetically attracted to the pawn. This is slid by the player on the top sheet to capture the chips and remove them from the board. Other games that use similar components They are basically of luck and skill. Now they get into them the changes and relationships necessary to achieve a complex game, of questions and answers, dedicated to language teaching. It includes these elements: a) Board (fig. 1) with double opaque sheets distance and with grooves at the top of the side band (fig. 2). The special situation of the slots prevents the exit not desired tokens and allows controlled and unobstructed passage of those that are dragged by the magnetized pawn. Lateral extraction makes the top sheet lacking perforations, therefore, the chips are completely hidden and the outer pawn can use The entire playing surface. b) Magnetically attractive chips. His two faces carry data much more complex than others similar games. The underside is the question posed to the player while the superior is the answer that you demands. c) Outside pawn. The chips are taken from the board with the help of a magnetized pawn whose large base hides the face response of the chip while showing players the face bottom or question (fig. 5). To this end, the chips are will enter on the board with the face written up d) Brochure that provides the basic rules of the foreign language and the necessary examples to overcome each difficulty level. e) Notebook and pen for when required difficulty levels in writing. f) Optionally you can use strips (needed in bonded sheet boards) boxes to store each group of cards and a thematic dictionary illustrated with the form written and figurative pronunciation of the drawings that appear in the chips. 2. New board game with chips according to the first claim characterized in that on the lower side they have a colored drawing and a number inscribed in a circle (fig. 4). 3. New board game, according to previous claims, characterized in that the chips are grouped by themes. In each subject there are between 18 and 30 files. 4. New board game that uses chips according to previous claims, but characterized in that the drawings of the lower face are colored with a single flat and arbitrary color. 5. New board game, according to previous claims, characterized in that the cards reproduce, in various sizes, the drawings selected for each theme. 6. New board game, according to previous claims, with thematic cards whose upper face is characterized by being divided into four equal parts, corresponding to the size, color, number and name of the drawing. Each quadrant contains the written form (capital letters next to the border) and spoken (this optional and with pronunciation figured in the inner area) of the part it represents (fig. 3). 7. New board game with chips according to previous claims characterized in that the four quarters of the upper face use the colors of the traffic light to indicate the order preferred by the foreign language when these parts are related to each other. For this, the quadrant used last is left blank and those used first, second and third, respectively, are colored red, yellow and green. 8. New board game with board according to the first claim, but characterized in that the top sheet is movable, swinging (fig. 6) or sliding (fig. 7) to facilitate the introduction / extraction of chips. 9. New board game with board according to the first claim, characterized in that extensions of its lower sheet reach the level of the base of the grooves. 10. New board game with pawn according to claim 1 characterized in that its base is several times larger than the central magnet it houses, so that it can capture the chips. centered to completely hide your face-response (fig. 3).

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11. New board game with board according to the first claim that uses strips to facilitate the introduction of chips in the boards with joined sheets. They are characterized because their upper face is at the height of the grooves and because one of its major sides lacks an edge (fig. 8).