FR2558383A1 - Table parlour game - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a parlour game making it possible to cause a certain number of game pieces or pawns to progress over a game surface, in two opposite directions on the basis of numerical indications given by gaming dice. The invention is composed of a board 1 comprising a game surface 2 on which is produced, in three colours, the outline of a circular maze 3, with an equal number of game pieces or pawns per player who is able to take any side according to his own whim, and of two gaming dice giving indications of numerical values. This game according to the invention is intended particularly for commercial distribution in the form of a table parlour game.

Description

 BOARD GAME.

 Your present invention relates, as a new industrial product, to a board game, of chance and tactics allowing the participants to execute the phases of a race and a fight on a game track by moving pawns (or pieces) according to the number of boxes determined by dice giving numerical values.

 This game is remarkable in that it consists of a game board, an equal number of pawns (or pieces) per player and two dice. The number of pawns can vary from 4 to 6 and the number of players from 2 to 4.

 The description which follows, made with reference to the single appended drawing (fig. I) given without limitation, will make it clear how the invention is to be carried out.

 The game board (I) on which the game takes place can be made of wood, plastic or any other suitable material. In the example given as an indication by FIG. I, it is a square on which the outline of the game is made in three colors. This outline represents a circular labyrinth comprising concentric corridors t2) composed of round boxes ( 3) of alternating colors, an entry-start placed on the peripheral corridor (4), and an exit-arrival (5) placed in the center of the track. The corridors are only accessible between them at a single point. This aces is symbolized by a cut in the circular line separating the corridors and by a connection of the two boxes facing its level (6).

 The rules of the game set out below are given for information only.

Each player takes turns rolling the dice until he spawns
the number I. He then placed one of his pawns on the starting square (4) and advances it by the number of squares indicated by another die. He can choose the direction he wants to progress on a given lane until he falls exactly on the access box to the next lane. Once placed on this space, his pawn can go up on the next corridor, without however being obliged to do so.

On the other hand, he can never descend from an interior corridor to an exterior corridor. He can simultaneously introduce as many pawns on the track as he will make the number I appear with the dice. He can use the numbers obtained with the dice in any of the following ways:
Advance then, or back one and the same pawn or two different pawns, and conversely Introduce a pawn with the number I and play the number of the other die either with this pawn, or with another. of pawn in play, he is obliged to use the I he obtains with the Aés to put a pawn in play, otherwise he uses the figures obtained as he sees fit and within the limits of the rule, but without ever being able to refuse to play them as long as he can. He cannot place two pawns on the same space. He may at any time eliminate an opponent's pawn from the race by placing one of his own on the square which he occupies. The same goes for his opponents. The tokens eliminated must always be put back into play; the winner being the one who will bring all his pawns to the center of the track first.

 I1 goes without saying that without departing from the scope of the invention, it is possible to make modifications to the form of execution given as an example because the invention lends itself to many variants.

 In particular, the design of numbered boxes, or on the contrary dgun multicolored tray is possible, the use of the tray being only governed by rules which can undergo all kinds of modifications without departing from the idea even Obviously, the pawns (or pieces) can likewise take any aspect-according to the imagination of the director.

 The rule and description, as well as Figure I appended thereto, set out above, clearly show one of the main features and novelty of the invention, which is to allow games and rules of play or the different participants can move pawns on a game board in two opposite directions and as they see fit, thereby increasing and even multiplying the tactical possibilities of a game of chance whose movements are, in principle, only governed by dice giving numerical values.

Claims (1)

 I.- Board game characterized in that it comprises: a board (I) of  game on which the layout of a circular labyrinth including  concentric corridors (2) composed of boxes (3), an entry-departure  (4) placed on the peripheral corridor, and an outlet-arrival (5) placed  in the center of the layout, as well as access from corridor to corridor (6).  2, - Board game according to claim I characterized in that the game board is used with well-defined accessories which are: ldeux two dice giving numerical values and from I2 to I6 pawns (or pieces to play) according to the number of players