JP2005523787A - Board game mining directive from chaos - Google Patents

Abstract

A board game that allows for 1 to 35 players, a plurality of square play tiles (2201-2204) in opaque bags, and a square board (2200) on which these tiles are placed )have. Each tile belongs simultaneously as an element to four distinct bidirectional infinite mathematical series. The player progresses by placing tiles on the board. There are nine distinct front tile patterns. In the preferred embodiment, the pattern marked on the board is an enlarged image of these nine tiles, with the mirror image on the back of the tiles. In play, the mark on the back of the tile must match the square mark on the board on which the tile is placed. The player who finishes playing all the tiles he has first is the winner, and in the case of a one-player game, the goal is to use up all the tiles he has while minimizing the number of tiles to be placed.

Description

  The present invention belongs to the field of table or board games, in particular to the field of both entertainment and educational board games. The present invention, in a simplified form, can be used to help familiarize how to count small children's numbers. All-in-one games provide interesting entertainment with intellectual ability.

  Unlike any previous game that exists in the prior art, among the preceding games, the board game used to teach mathematical concepts is closest to this game. They include, for example, Jeff, US Pat. No. 6,089,871, and O'Donnell, US Pat. No. 5,893,718, and references cited therein.

  Prior art board games have many disadvantages that are overcome by the present invention. Many prior art board games require more than one player, as in Maciasz US Pat. No. 6,176,486, and therefore lack a single player embodiment. In some games, as in Fikki US Pat. No. 6,322,076, there is a complex and time consuming preparatory work before game play can begin. Many games, such as US Pat. No. 6,250,633 to Mottashham, have complex rules that are difficult to remember, have redundant instructions, and others for sale in markets around the world Translation into language is troublesome. Virtually all board games have little flexibility in the number of players and are strategic games, like Tomkovich's US Pat. No. 6,357,748, which adds a third person to the chess game. The importance of adding additional players to is obvious from the prior art. Prior art games, such as Brown's US Pat. No. 6,176,490, which allow a moderate number of players, unfortunately, wait for other players to play their turn. Boring is caused by time, and such games often propose to solve this problem by setting time limits in order, as in O'Donnell US Pat. No. 5,893,718, but are cumbersome to manage And compliance is troublesome. For many games, such as Brunot US Pat. No. 2,752,158 and Kintner US Pat. No. 6,170,823, the complex and time-consuming to determine the winner of the game. There is such a scoring system. Because of the scoring system, in many prior art games, the player must have participated from the beginning of the game, and new players cannot participate in games that are already in progress. Many games, such as Debie's US Pat. No. 6,065,749, have an alphabetic or numeric display on the board or play piece for introduction into the market for new languages. Is expensive to translate and reissue. Some prior art games have some built-in teaching modes to help beginners become familiar with the rules. Some game consoles can be folded in half, such as Lyon US Pat. No. 5,551,698, but create or avoid an unsightly uneven kite in the middle An expensive hinge is required, and it becomes difficult to move and store the board while the game is in progress. Game boards for some games in the prior art are manufactured, such as the game proposed in Jeff's US Pat. No. 6,089,871, which includes 48 special precision dice and 100 different four-color chips. Is expensive. Finally, there are few board games available to blind players in the prior art.

  The general idea of the present invention is to provide a unique and novel board game that is interesting and educational. The preferred embodiment of the invention described in this section consists of a plurality of square play tiles initially placed in an opaque bag and a square board on which the pieces are placed. The game boards are each marked with a square mark that is just large enough to accommodate one tile, and at least two tiles are permanently fixed in place on the board. There can be from 1 to 35 players. Each player starts the game with the same number of play pieces or tiles that have been closed out of the bag. All players can move at any time. Each tile belongs simultaneously as an element to four mathematical series that can be distinguished from each other. Each series goes from 1 to 9 and repeats starting from 1 again. The front of each tile is labeled with four displays showing the four elements that the piece occupies in each of four separate series. Each of these displays is given a distinct color, pattern, or shape to identify the series to which it belongs. The player advances the game by placing tiles on the board in contact with tiles already on the board. The play pieces must match the proper order for one of the four series to which they belong. The tile pattern is inevitably positioned in the optimum position in the other three series if the tiles are properly arranged in one series. Proper selection of the display will result in nine different tile fronts that can be distinguished by these constraints. In a preferred embodiment, the pattern marked on the square on the game board is a 6-fold magnified image of these nine tiles, and its mirror image is marked on the back of the tile. When playing, the pattern or color on the back of the tile must match the square pattern or color of the board on which it is placed. If the player realizes that none of his tiles can be placed on the game board, the player must remove another piece from the bag. The winner is the person who first played all the tiles on hand, and in the case of a one-player game, the goal is to use up all the tiles at hand while minimizing the number of tiles to be placed.

  The object of the present invention is to provide a new game that is overwhelming and prioritized by the prior art as a whole, while overcoming all the drawbacks of the prior art as mentioned above.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide an interesting and non-mandatory game that children can use to learn and practice the skills of counting numbers.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a game in which preparation and disassembly times are absolutely minimal.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a game that does not have a complex and time consuming scoring system.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a game that can be played by only one player or can be played by up to 35 players simultaneously.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a board game that has simple rules and is easy to learn, document, and translate into a new language.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a board game in which all players can play simultaneously and do not have to wait for other players to do their turn before playing.

  It is a further object of the present invention to configure a game so that players can participate fairly in an ongoing game and, if necessary, leave the game and rejoin later.

  It is a further object of the present invention to provide a board game that has no letters or numbers on the board to facilitate international distribution of the game.

  The object of the present invention is that it is not usually that all the pieces are played up at the completion of one or several games, so it is not necessary to remove the pieces of the game even if the game is completed on the board. The game board at the end of the partially filled game can be used as a starting point for a new game. This feature should be used repeatedly until all play pieces have been played.

  It is an object of the present invention to provide a game board that can be easily moved and stored between games or during the game.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a game that looks interesting.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a board game in which each part of a game board can be used as a game piece of a larger game board to constitute a multi-stage game.

  The object of the present invention is to satisfy all these objects at a low production cost.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a board game that can be used by blind people.

  The present invention provides a unique and novel board game that is both interesting and educational. This game is composed of a game piece placed in an opaque bag and a game board on which the piece is placed. In the preferred embodiment, 320 square play pieces or tiles are initially placed in a bag. In the preferred embodiment, there are 324 squares on the game board, each of which is just large enough to accommodate the tiles, and four tiles are always mounted in place. From 1 to 35 players can participate. Each player starts the game with nine tiles that are taken out of the bag. Each tile is an element that simultaneously belongs to four different mathematical series. Each series lasts from 1 to 9 and starts again from 1. The front face of each tile is marked with four marks to indicate the four elements that each piece occupies in the four different series. Each of the marks is given a different color or pattern in order to identify which series the mark belongs to. In a preferred embodiment, the player plays the game by placing the tile against at least one of the corners or sides of the tile already on the game board. The play pieces must be arranged in the proper order for one of the four series to which it belongs. The design of the pattern is inevitably positioned in the optimum position in the other three series if the tiles are properly arranged in one series. With constraints appropriately selected as in the preferred embodiment, these constraints result in nine different tiles. In the preferred embodiment, the pattern marked on the game board is an enlarged image of these nine tiles and the mirror image is marked on the back of the 320 tiles. In play, the mark on the back of the tile must match the square mark on which the tile on the board is placed. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, once tiles are placed on the game board, they remain in that position until the end of the game, unless it is found that they have been placed in the wrong order. If it is found to be placed in the game board, it will be removed from the game board, but for further details on this subject see the exemplary embodiment for the following rules. If the tile removed from the bag does not have a tile that can be placed on the game board, the player must remove another piece from the bag. The winner is the person who first plays all of his tiles.

  For purposes of promoting and understanding the principles of the present invention, reference will now be made to the embodiment illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used to describe the same. However, it should not be understood that they are intended to limit the scope of the invention, and variations and further improvements in the illustrated apparatus as would normally be done by those having ordinary skill in the art to which the invention belongs, and the following It should be understood that further applications of the principles of the invention shown in FIG. For example, although the present invention will be described with respect to a physical game board, it can be realized as computer software and enjoyed as a computer game. In particular, a game variant in which the game board itself is divided and used as a play piece for a larger game board, and a situation in which the number of players is more than about 8 people, is often the case on distributed computer systems. Especially suitable for playing.

  Reference is now made to FIGS. 1-24, which show the basic components of the present invention. A reference to a numbered part refers to the numbered part consistently throughout.

  FIG. 1 shows a representative play piece 100 having a front surface 101, a back surface 102, and sides 103, 104, 105, and 106. In a preferred embodiment, the play piece is a square tile. In the illustrated embodiment, the tile 100 is 2 cm square and 4 mm thick.

  FIG. 2 shows two methods for dividing the front surface 101 of the tile 100 into four parts. In FIG. 2A, the tile has these four parts: a part 201 indicated by horizontal lines, a part 202 indicated by a box-like pattern, a part 203 indicated by vertical lines, and a part 204 indicated by halftone dots. It is divided into In the preferred embodiment, these patterns are replaced with colors, ie, red, yellow, green, and blue, but other colors and patterns can be employed by those skilled in the art. The tiles belong to four separate series at the same time, and the quadrants 201, 202, 203, and 204 are each an element of these four separate series. The pattern of the quadrant represents the series to which the quadrant belongs. In the proposed embodiment shown in FIG. 2A, the series spreads horizontally and vertically as a pattern of tiles, forming a cross as shown in FIGS. 3-7 below. In the preferred embodiment of FIG. 2B, the tile is divided into four parts in different ways. Each of the quadrants 211, 212, 213, and 214 is provided with a pattern representing a series to which each quadrant belongs as an element, as in FIG. 2A. In the preferred embodiment shown in FIG. 2B, the series extends diagonally from the tile, as shown in FIGS. 8-24 below. In other embodiments, the quadrants are divided into one another and assembled into pieces when the game is played.

  For the front face 101 of a square tile marked as in FIG. 2A, a series of one quadrant of the tile is shown in FIG. 3, and the other quadrant is a blank page for simplicity of illustration. It is left. In FIG. 3, it can be seen that the series indicated by the dot marks begins with a tile 301 having an element number “1” indicating that it is the “first” element of the series. Similarly, the next tile 302 in the series has element number “2” and tile 303 has element number “3”. This series continues up to tile 304 with element “9”, followed by tile 305 containing element “1” as well as tile 301. That is, it is illustrated that the series continues with element “9” followed by element “1” followed by “2”, “3”,. This property is preserved in all series used in the present invention. Thus, it is clear that prior to tile 301, ie, a tile having element “9” is located on the left side of tile 301, followed by a tile having element “8” on its left side, and so on. Since the series can potentially extend indefinitely in both directions, the idea that the tile 301 is the “first” of the series is nominal only.

  In the series of FIG. 3, it is clear that this series is inverted, i.e. the element 302 is labeled with element "9", the tile 303 has element "8" and so on. This variation is possible, and this choice hardly precludes the present invention, but the preferred form is shown in FIG. 3, i.e. one quadrant is divided into the opposite quadrants of the same tile. When starting in a direction beyond the part, the next tile in the series keeps increasing with respect to the element number, where an “increase” for element “9” is an element like a transition from tile 304 to tile 305. It is understood to be “1”. On the other hand, when starting directly from one tile to the next, such as moving from tile 303 to tile 302, so as not to cross the opposite quadrant, the next tile is reduced with respect to element number Here, the “decrease” from the element “1” is understood to be the element “9”. For the sake of clarity, this property is hereinafter referred to as “direction invariant”.

  FIG. 4 shows how the second series runs in the opposite direction to the first series shown in FIG. This second series can be considered to start with a tile 401 in which an element “1” is written in a quadrant with a box pattern. In the next tile 402 in the second series, an element “2” is written in a quadrant with a box pattern. In these opposing series, the remainder of the total of 9 elements is 0 for all tiles. The remainder operator of the mathematical expression “remainder by x of y” is the remainder of the number x divided by the number y. For example, in the tile 403, the element “1” of the quadrant with halftone dots is paired with the element “8” of the opposite quadrant with a box pattern, and one plus 8 is 9 , 9 divided by 9 is 0, so the remainder of 9 by 9 is 0. The attribute that the division by 9 of the sum of the opposing quadrants is equal to 0 is a property of all tiles in the present invention. Thus, in a tile containing element “9”, as shown for the two quadrants shown on tile 404, all quadrants have element “9”; The sum of the elements of the opposing quadrants is 9 plus 9 to 18 and the remainder of 18 of 9 is 0. In FIG. 4 both series are shown in compliance with the above-mentioned direction invariance. Further, the tile 404 is attached to the tile 405 before the element “9” of the quadrant with the box pattern is attached to “1” of the quadrant with the same pattern of the tile 401. The element “8” shows how it precedes the “9” in the quadrant with a similar pattern on the tile 404, and how both series are potentially infinite in both directions. It shows how it grows.

  FIG. 5 shows how one tile participates in four separate series. The first two series are from FIG. 4 as indicated by tile 403. In addition to the first two series from FIG. 4, tiles 501 are shown participating in two new series that intersect these first two series at right angles. All four quadrants of the tile 501 are patterned to identify the four series to which the quadrants belong. A halftone dot pattern and a box pattern are attached to the two quadrants as in the tile 406 of FIG. The quadrants with vertical lines and the quadrants with horizontal lines indicate that they are members of two new series extending perpendicularly from the first two series. Any two elements with a total of 9 can be placed in two quadrants with a new pattern. In this proposed embodiment, a tile with a halftone dot of “5” Always has an element of “7” in one of two quadrants with a line pattern. This selection results in 18 different tile surfaces that must be replicated to produce the full pattern. These 18 different tile surfaces constitute a so-called “minimum range set”. Above the tile 501 is a tile 502 containing elements required by the above-mentioned direction invariance. Similarly, the tile 503 below the tile 501 is designated by the invariant direction. As in FIGS. 3 and 4, tiles 504 and 505 do not have to be terminal tiles, and the two new series also extend infinitely in both directions.

  The tiles used to form the pattern in FIG. 5 have the disadvantage of using the numbers “1” through “9” to display each element of the series. This is because a rotation that flips the tile upside down around the center point, that is, the intersection of the lines that divide the quadrant, causes the number to flip upside down, so the correct side is on the tile It causes the problem that it is difficult to read. Furthermore, even if rotation is unthinkable, it is somewhat advantageous for the player to see the numbers in the correct orientation when looking at the game board. Adopting an element number display that can be reversed without compromising visibility can solve this problem. FIG. 6 illustrates the use of a display that can be reversed without compromising visibility. A tile 601 corresponding to the tile 301 but using this new display mechanism is shown for only one quadrant, and the other quadrant is blank for easy understanding. The left quadrant of the tile 601 is divided into nine triangles arranged in three rows of five, three, and one triangle, respectively. A halftone dot pattern is added to the center triangle in the leftmost column of five triangles, and both the series and the element number “1” in the series are displayed. Similarly, a tile 602 corresponding to the tile 302 has halftone dots on two small triangles, indicating that it is the second element in the series identified by the halftone dots. A tile 603 corresponding to the tile 303 is also the third tile of the series, and continues to the right side and the left side in the same manner. The choice of which triangles are to be patterned is one of artistic preferences, and other patterning can be used by those skilled in the art. For example, three triangles with a pattern on the tile 303 are arbitrarily selected, and an arbitrary set of three triangles can be selected instead. Such alternative designs are also included in the present invention. Furthermore, in other embodiments, whenever a display formed by multiple elements, such as the small triangle of FIG. 6, is used, such display is formed into quadrants when playing the game. It may consist of separate parts that are assembled accordingly.

  Those skilled in the art can employ other display mechanisms. FIG. 15A shows another method for numbering each element of the series. In particular, in one example embodiment where practicing how to count children is the primary goal of the game, a geometric or graphical display as shown in FIG. 15A would be used. Such a geometric or schematic representation is an array such as that shown in FIG. 15A, ie, 5-3-1 three columns (horizontal orientation quadrant) of the representation used for the small triangle of the quadrant in FIG. Can be arranged in three rows), or in any other useful arrangement, and such obvious alternatives are included in the present invention. In quadrants 1502 and 1503, an appropriate number of children's toy designs are placed in the 5-3-1 arrangement of FIG. 6 to represent the numbers “7” and “2” of the elements of tile 501 respectively. It is used for. In this example, the toy symbol is used to represent the series to which the quadrant belongs. In the quadrants 1501 and 1504, geometric shapes arranged in the 5-3-1 arrangement of FIG. 6 are used to represent the element numbers “5” and “4”, respectively. In these two quadrants, both the pattern of the shape and the shape itself specify the series to which the quadrant belongs. By embossing these displays on the front of the tile, the present invention can be immediately made available to blind persons. From these examples, any geometric, symbolic, or schematic shape can be used for assigning numbers to elements and identifying series, and such indications that would be utilized by those skilled in the art are: It is included in the present invention.

The embodiment of the idea of the present invention shown in FIG. 7 is brought about by expanding the series shown in FIG. 5 while utilizing the display mechanism shown in FIG. In this proposal, as shown in FIG. 7, there are 81 tiles that can be arranged in a 9 × 9 square, but it is also possible to use a larger number of tiles. Suitable nominal dimensions for these tiles are 3 cm square and 9 mm thick. The proposed embodiment of the present invention uses the same rules as dominoes, which are games of the prior art. This proposed embodiment can be played on an arbitrary smooth plane such as a table or a floor, and does not require a game board. An example set of rules for this proposal is as follows:
a) Lay down all tiles to start the game. Each player chooses one tile, and the player with the largest number of red triangles plays first, but if the number is the same, choose another tile. After these tiles are turned down and mixed, the player with the last turn turns over one tile and starts the game.
b) Each player takes 12 tiles and looks at only 4 tiles, leaving the remaining 8 tiles face down. Players hide their tiles from other players. The tiles that remain without being chosen by any player are called “Rainbow Sets” and are still left face down.
c) According to the pattern arranged in FIG. 7, the game is advanced by arranging the tile adjacent to one side of the tile already on the game board while observing the direction invariance. In particular, care must be taken so that the colors do not change by arranging the vertices of the quadrants with the same pattern or color adjacent to each other in one row or column.
d) If a player cannot place a tile, that player takes a tile from the rainbow group and uses it in the next order unless the rainbow group is empty. When the rainbow group is exhausted, the player can take one tile to use in the next turn from the face down tile received at the start of the game.
e) When the player has used all four tiles that were initially returned to the table, the player will return four more tiles to the table from the first set of 12 tiles received, which will complete the game. Repeated 3 times.
f) The winner is the first player who has properly placed all 12 tiles received at the beginning of the game. In the case of a one-player game, the goal is to complete the process while minimizing the number of tiles to be arranged.

  This proposed embodiment satisfies many objectives of the present invention. However, the preparation procedure of flipping all pieces to start the game and the procedure for selecting the player to play first take some time, and such an annoying feature is a barrier to playing the game. This embodiment still has a relatively limited number of players because it must wait for each other's turn. Participating fairly in an ongoing game is not easy. There is no game board that can be moved and stored between games, and there is no game board that can itself be used as a play piece on a large game board. Furthermore, the requirement stated in rule c) above, where the player must manually change the color of the vertices that touch, is preferable if the rule is unnecessarily complicated and only the direction-invariant compliance is required to place the tile. . Thus, while this proposed embodiment provides an entertainment and educational game that achieves some of the objectives of the present invention, it does not meet all desired objectives.

  In order to achieve these goals in the preferred embodiment, the tile front surface 101 must be characterized as shown in FIG. 2B. In accordance with this design of the present invention, a series for one quadrant of a tile is shown in FIG. 8, but the other quadrant is left blank for clarity of illustration. In FIG. 8, a series with a horizontal mark is shown beginning with a tile 801 having an element number “1” indicating the “first” element of the series. Similarly, the next tile 802 in the series has element number “2” and tile 803 has element “3”. Tile 804 with element “9” is followed by tile 805 with element “1” just like tile 801. That is, after the element “9”, the series starts again with the element “1” and continues with the elements “2”, “3”,. This property is preserved in all series used in the present invention. Thus, it is clear that prior to tile 801, ie, the tile having element “9” is located at the upper left of tile 801, followed by the tile having element “8” at the upper left, and so on. Because the series can potentially extend indefinitely in both directions, the idea that tile 801 is the “first” of the series is nominal.

  In the series of FIG. 8, this series is inverted, i.e., the element "9" is attached to the tile 802, the tile 803 has the element "8", and so on. Although this variation is possible and this choice hardly precludes the present invention, the preferred form is shown in FIG. 8, i.e., one tile over the opposite corner of the same tile. When starting in the right direction, the next tile in the series keeps increasing with respect to the element number, where the “increase” for element “9” is the element “1”, like the transition from tile 804 to tile 805. It is understood that there is. On the other hand, when starting directly from one tile to the next tile so as not to cross the opposite corner, the next tile decreases with respect to the element number, where “decrease” from element “1” is It is understood to be element “9”. As described above, this property is also referred to as “direction invariant” below.

  FIG. 9 shows how the second series runs in the opposite direction to the first series shown in FIG. This second series can be considered to start with a tile 901 in which the element “1” is written in a quadrant with vertical lines. In the next tile 902 in the second series, an element “2” is written in a quadrant with vertical lines. In these opposing series, the remainder of the total of 9 elements is 0 for all tiles. This attribute that the remainder by 9 of the sum of the opposing quadrants is equal to 0 is a property of all tiles in the present invention. Thus, in a tile containing element “9”, all quadrants have element “9”, as shown for the two quadrants shown on tile 904, The sum of the elements of the opposing quadrants is 9 plus 9 to 18 and the remainder of 18 of 9 is 0. In FIG. 9, both series are shown in compliance with the above-mentioned direction invariance. Further, the tile “904” is attached to the tile 905 before the “1” of the quadrant with the same pattern of the tile 901 as the element “9” of the quadrant with a vertical line attached thereto. The element “8” shows how the tile 904 precedes the “9” in the quadrant with the same pattern, and how both series are potentially infinite in both directions. It shows how it grows.

  FIG. 10 shows how one tile participates in four separate series. The first two series are from FIG. 9 as indicated by tile 903. In addition to the first two series from FIG. 9, tile 1001 is shown participating in two new series that intersect these first two series at right angles. All four quadrants of the tile 1001 are patterned to identify the four series to which the quadrant belongs. The vertical line and horizontal line patterns of the tile 1001 are attached to the two quadrants as the tile 906 in FIG. The quadrants with the box pattern and the quadrants with the dot pattern indicate that they are members of two new series extending perpendicularly from the first two series. Any two elements that add up to 9 can be placed in two quadrants with a new pattern, and in a preferred embodiment, a tile with a horizontal line of “5” is always a box The four-divided portion with the pattern of “8” has an element “8”. This leads to a game board design with the smallest possible minimum range set and a central macroscopic “9” tile, which will become more apparent below. In the upper right of the tile 1001, a tile 1002 including an element required by the above-described direction invariance is located. Similarly, the lower left tile 1003 of the tile 1001 is also designated by the direction invariant. As in FIGS. 8 and 9, tiles 1004 and 1005 need not be terminal tiles, and the two new series also extend infinitely in both directions.

  By placing a single tile, such as tile 1001, on the game board, the placement of all tiles that are diagonally adjacent in the plane is determined, as shown in the partial plane of FIG. The design that each tile needs to participate as an element in each of the four series fixes the elements and positions of all tiles adjacent to tile 1001 by corners and adjacent to any of the illustrated tiles by guidance. Theoretically, this plane potentially extends indefinitely in all directions, so that tile 1005 of FIG. 11 is not the end of the plane, but each corner is followed by a tile defined by direction invariance, but FIG. However, these tiles are not shown because they have limited space.

  In FIG. 12, the positions of the quadrants with the horizontal and vertical patterns are interchanged, and similarly, the positions of the quadrants with the box pattern and the quadrants with halftone dots are interchanged. A similar partial plane is shown that would be seen following the same pattern as the tile of FIG. Similar to FIG. 11, by arranging any one tile in FIG. 12, the arrangement of each of the other tiles in an infinite plane is determined. When the tiles of FIG. 12 are arranged in the empty space between the tiles of FIG. 11, that is, when the tile 1201 is arranged in the empty space on the right side of the tile 1101, the tile pattern shown in FIG. Although any tile of FIG. 12 can be placed to the right of tile 1101, the preferred embodiment is provided by selecting tile 1201 to produce the results shown in FIG. The pattern shown in FIG. 13 is preferred in that it provides a board design with a central “macro” “9” tile surrounded by eight tiles, each of which is different from the others, with some further improvements described below. It is an embodiment. Only a few other tile patterns, i.e. the mirror image of the pattern shown in Fig. 13, can yield this result, which is an alternative arrangement that can be equally chosen by those skilled in the art, and such a design is also a book. Included in the invention.

  The tiles used to form the pattern in FIG. 13 have the disadvantage of using the numbers “1” through “9” to display each element of the series. This is because a rotation that flips the tile upside down around the center point, that is, the intersection of the lines that divide the quadrant, causes the number to flip upside down, so the correct side is on the tile It causes the problem that it is difficult to read. This tile rotation can be avoided by doubling the number of tiles in the minimum range set, with each tile having an inverted tile with the pattern or color inverted and the number upright, but this is doubled Leading to having to manufacture a number of tiles. Furthermore, even if rotation is not conceivable, a player who is in a position where the numbers appear in the right direction when looking at the game board is somewhat advantageous. Adopting an element number display that can be reversed without compromising visibility can solve this problem. FIG. 14 shows the use of a display similar to the mark used on a playing card. For the tile 1401, only one quadrant is shown, and the other parts are blank for clarity. The upper left quadrant of the tile 1401 is divided into nine squares, and a vertical line pattern indicating the “first” element of the series is attached to the central square. Similarly, the tile 1402 has two small squares with vertical lines, indicating that it is the second element in the series identified by the vertical lines. Similarly, tile 1403 is the third tile in this series, and so on. Furthermore, in other embodiments, whenever a display formed by multiple elements, such as the small square of FIG. 14, is used, such display is formed into quadrants when the game is played. It may consist of separate parts that are assembled accordingly.

  FIG. 15B shows a tile 1202 that uses another method to number each element in the series. In quadrants 1512 and 1513, an appropriate number of children's toy designs are placed in the playing card pattern of FIG. 14 and are used to represent the numbers “7” and “2” of the elements of tile 1202, respectively. ing. In this example, the toy symbol is used to represent the series to which the quadrant belongs. In the quadrants 1511 and 1514, the geometric shapes are arranged in the playing card pattern of FIG. 14 and are used to represent the element numbers “5” and “4”, respectively. In these two quadrants, both the pattern of the shape and the shape itself specify the series to which the quadrant belongs. By embossing these displays on the front of the tile, the present invention can be immediately made available to blind persons. In a game manufactured for the blind, it is necessary to choose a symbol that does not have a specific orientation, such as that of the other symbols in FIG. This is because the inherent orientation of the symbols used to represent the series provides extra clues regarding tile placement, which will become apparent as the design of the present invention is further described below. Will. Symbols that are convenient for the blind player used in the implementation would be circular, square, hexagonal, and octagonal. From these examples, any geometric, symbolic, and schematic shape can be used for assigning numbers to elements and identifying series, and such indications that would be utilized by those skilled in the art are: It is included in the present invention.

  FIG. 16 introduces a new method for identifying each element of the series. In FIG. 16, only one quadrant is shown for each tile, and the other three quadrants are left blank for clarity. In the tile 1601, the quadrant is divided into nine small squares as in FIG. However, instead of the “Trump” display of the numbers shown in FIG. 14, the tile 1601 is shown with a vertical line on the innermost small square. Tile 1602 shows that the innermost small square and the small square above it are painted with vertical lines and are the second element in the series indicated by the vertical lines. Tile 1603 is the third such tile, and continues in a counterclockwise spiral to the lower right. The remaining tiles in FIG. 16 show a counterclockwise spiral with element numbering, with the small square in the center filled last, as shown by the transition from tile 1604 to tile 1605. The improvement in the spiral element representation of FIG. 16 over the trump-like design of FIG. Unlike the difference in rotation, this spiral design has a vertical and horizontal display that does not favor any player depending on the viewing position around the game board It is in.

  FIG. 17 shows a preferred embodiment for displaying the number of series elements. In FIG. 17, only one quadrant is shown for each tile, and the other three quadrants are left blank for clarity. In the tile 1701, as shown in FIGS. 14 and 16, the illustrated quadrant is divided into nine small squares. The tile 1701 is shown with a vertical line on the outermost small square. Tile 1702 is the outermost small square and one on the right side in the clockwise direction is painted with a vertical line, indicating that it is the second element in the series indicated by the vertical line. Tile 1703 is the third such tile, and continues in the clockwise spiral to the lower right. The remaining tiles in FIG. 17 show a clockwise spiral of element number display, with the small square in the middle filled last, as shown by the transition from tile 1704 to tile 1705. While the clockwise spiral display mechanism of the elements of FIG. 17 has all the advantages of the mechanism of FIG. 16, the outer corners of all quadrants are always marked so The balance of appearance is good and aesthetically superior.

  The element display method shown in FIG. 17 allows the tile to be rotated 90 ° and 180 ° without penalties about the central axis that is the intersection of the straight lines that divide the quadrant. Allows you to reuse it somewhere else in the pattern. This can minimize the number of tile front designs required to build a particular pattern of the present invention where each tile participates in each of four separate series. FIG. 18 shows the nine tiles of the minimum range set necessary to generate the preferred embodiment of the present invention, using the element display mechanism defined in FIG. That means that only these nine tile designs are needed, and all these nine tile designs are needed. Indeed, tile 1801 is a preferred embodiment of tile 1202 shown in other forms in FIGS. 12 and 15B. All of the mirror images of FIG. 18 function equally well, and such mirror images can be selected by those skilled in the art and are included in the present invention.

  The game board on which the tiles are arranged can have any shape that can accommodate the play pieces. In a preferred embodiment, the game board itself is square and is further subdivided into an 18 × 18 square matrix, each of the small squares being sized to accommodate one play tile 100 that is a square. It is. Thus, if the tile 100 has a nominal size of 2 cm square, the game board is 36 cm square. FIG. 19 shows a basic game board divided into 324 positive directions. The 324 squares of this 18 × 18 matrix, as will become apparent below, are the rows of tiles on the game board and when the game board is fully played and all tiles are placed on the game board. Although each column is different, the 19th column is the same as the 1st column and the 19th row is the same as the 1st row, which is the preferred embodiment.

  FIG. 20 shows a further important refinement in the preferred embodiment of the game board, in which the dimensions of the nine minimum range sets of tiles shown in FIG. An expanded set of nine minimum range sets of tiles can be created that can be connected and stamped onto the 324 squares of the game board shown in FIG. This produces a game board that is a magnified display of connecting a minimum range of nine play tiles for the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The display mechanism shown in FIG. 18 is used for the surface of the preferred embodiment game board as shown in FIG. 20, so that the game board is born upward, downward, or other inherent orientation. No player has any advantage depending on the position of the game board.

  You may need to interrupt the game and continue playing later. Also, when a game is completed by one player placing his or her last tile on the game board, there are still unused tiles left in the bag and in the hands of the defeated player, with many tiles It may not have been placed on the game board yet. The defeated player can return their remaining tiles to an opaque bag, leave the game board intact and use it as a basis for starting a new game. This can be repeated until all tiles are placed on the game board through several games. Therefore, the movement and storage of a partially filled game board is particularly important for the present invention. The bookshelf is not deep enough to fully accommodate a 36 cm square game board. Many games in the prior art mainly have non-uniform play pieces height like chess, and play pieces pile up like checkers, or play pieces like a Japanese board game Samurai Is not compliant with devices that facilitate the storage of partially completed game boards because they are unstable. The present invention is not subject to any of these restrictions, and further facilitates manufacturing, packaging, and shipping, as well as stacking, moving and storage of partially filled game boards, and cardboard games. In order to eliminate the unsightly folds and expensive hinges that result from folding the board, the preferred embodiment of the present invention introduces a game board that is divided into two halves as shown in FIG. One half, partially filled with tiles, can be placed on the other half, also partially filled with tiles, and the pair is lifted and placed on the shelf until play resumes. He can be reconnected at the time of resumption.

  It is also possible to configure the game board shown in FIG. 20 from nine separate pieces as shown in FIG. This allows the game board piece to function as a tile for a second game board that is six times larger than the first game board. To make this design easier to understand, a nominal tile size of 2 cm is used, but it should be understood that other dimensions can be readily selected by those skilled in the art. For example, the game board is configured from the nine tiles of FIG. 18 to accommodate 2 cm square play tiles in each of the 324 squares of the game board, and thus each of the nine game board tiles is 12 cm square. These nine game board tiles can then be used as play tiles for an 18 × 18 game board that is 216 cm square. Since this 216 cm square game board is also used in a 1296 cm square game board, it can be composed of nine tiles, each 72 cm square. Obviously, this recursion can occur indefinitely, but it becomes physically unwieldy. However, when the present invention is implemented by software instead of physical tiles and game boards, there is no practical limitation on the number of possible recursions or the number of players participating at the same time, and such embodiments are also included in the present invention. include.

  As already indicated, the placement of any one tile in the plane of the potentially infinite tile partially shown in FIG. 11 determines the position of this tile and all remaining tiles adjacent to each other at the corners. . Similarly, a tile placed somewhere in the plane of a potentially infinite tile partially shown in FIG. 12 determines the position of all tiles that are adjacent at a corner in that plane. This is so long as the two tiles are not adjacent to each other at the corners, and are not adjacent to the tiles between them, in other words, one belongs to the set of tiles shown in FIG. 12 belongs to the set of tiles shown in FIG. 12, the patterns of all tiles on the game board are determined by fixing the positions of the two tiles shown in FIG. Although it is possible to play the game without two or more tiles permanently fixed to the game board to set the play pattern, in a preferred embodiment, a “fixed tile” In order to prevent the player from inadvertently creating a pattern that would probably not engage properly when the game ends, the game board is permanently secured. In addition, the fixed tiles ensure that the pattern that the tiles create during play is a minimal range set of microscopic images that are marked on the game board and shown in the preferred embodiment of FIG. Strictly speaking, only two such fixed tiles are required to set the overall game board pattern, but for aesthetic reasons and symmetry, in the preferred embodiment, as shown in FIG. Use a total of 4 fixed tiles. In this description, the dimensions are nominal and are mentioned only for the sake of clarity of the placement of fixed tiles on the game board. Furthermore, the elements shown in FIG. 22 are not proportionally scaled so that details can be easily seen. An embodiment of tile 100, which is nominally a 2 cm square and oriented tile 2201 as shown in FIG. 22, is permanently fixed to a 2 cm square tile location 2211 of a 36 cm square game board 2200. Similarly, a 2 cm square tile 2202 oriented as shown is permanently fixed to a 2 cm square tile position 2212 of a 36 cm square game board 2200. Similarly, a 2 cm square tile 2203 oriented as shown is permanently fixed to a 2 cm square tile position 2213 of a 36 cm square game board 2200. Finally, a 2 cm square tile 2204 oriented as shown is permanently secured to a 2 cm square tile position 2214 of a 36 cm square game board 2200. Permanent fixing of the fixed tiles to the game board is done using suitable adhesives, screws, or other means applied by those skilled in the art, but the game tiles are placed on the game board when playing the game. It has the added benefit of providing a set of edges that can be aligned to keep the play pieces straight. Manufacture the game board with a recess or groove for the tile so that it will not be touched after being placed on the game board or tilted during movement and storage to prevent the tile from moving unexpectedly It is also a commonly used technique. This proposed embodiment is not a preferred embodiment, but is common in the art and included in the present invention.

  FIGS. 23A-23D show a fully played game board, with all tiles 100 in place, in the correct order in the four series, with the front facing up. 23A-23D are shown in four parts for simplicity only and are connected together to form a fully played game board. FIG. 23B is placed below FIG. 23A so that tile 2311 is adjacent to tile 2301. FIG. 23C is placed on the right side of FIG. 23A such that tile 2312 is adjacent to tile 2302. 23D is positioned below FIG. 23C so that tile 2314 is adjacent to tile 2304 and tile 2313 is positioned on the right side of FIG. Once these connections are applied, the concepts of “downward” and “right”, used only to guide this connection, are the tiles used for play on the game board and the direction inherent to the game board itself. Abandoned because of lack of sex. As a further aid for understanding, FIG. 23A shows the fixed tile 2201 in the proper position, FIG. 23B shows the fixed tile 2203 in the proper position, and FIG. 23C shows the fixed tile. The tile 2202 is shown in the proper position, and in FIG. 23D, the fixed tile 2204 is shown in the proper position. Thus, FIGS. 23A to 23D are integrated to show the pattern of the tile for play completed in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and this pattern is displayed at the end of the previous game after the first game, respectively. After playing several games to the end with the above state as the starting point, it appears on the game board.

  The board games described so far are suitable for use as educational aids to help small children practice number counting, and for those who are new to the present invention to properly place tiles in a series of tiles. It is also suitable as a teaching mode of the present invention for learning. However, there are only 9 tiles in the minimum range set and there are 320 possible squares on the game board, so there are about 35 places on the game board for each tile. Once you are familiar with the way tiles are placed in a series, the large number of places that can be placed in this way makes game play too easy. This problem is solved by marking the image on the game board of FIG. 20 on the back surface 102 of the game tile of FIGS. This places a distinguishable pattern or single color on the back 102 of each tile and is used to further limit the placement of the tiles on the game board when playing the game. Accordingly, in addition to the proper order in the four series according to the pattern on the front surface 101, the pattern or color of the back surface 102 of the tile 100 matches the square pattern or color to be arranged on the game board of FIG. There must be. This requirement further complicates finding the correct position for the tile on the game board and creates a more challenging game. In the instructional game where the player learns how to play the game, the player is only focused on placing the tiles properly into the series, simply ignoring the color or pattern on the back of the tiles when placing them on the game board. That's fine.

  A preferred embodiment realizing all of the present invention can be easily manufactured by the following process. FIG. 24 is a mirror image of the game board shown in FIG. 20 reflected horizontally. For each tile of FIGS. 23A-23D, there is one square in FIG. 23A-23D, as shown in FIGS. 23A-23D, the play tiles 100 of FIGS. 23A-23D are connected and arranged as described above, and then the tiles are united and the entire plane of the tiles is shown in FIGS. It is inverted by rotating 180 ° to the right about an axis 2350 passing through the right edge. Next, the pattern shown in FIG. 24 is applied to the back surface 102 of the tile 100 now facing upward by this rotation process. As a result, tile 2321 receives a vertical square 2421 on the back, tile 2322 receives a square 2422 on the back, tile 2323 receives a box square 2423 on the back, and tile 2324 has a horizontal line on the back. A pattern square 2424 is received.

  In one proposed embodiment, the pattern or color applied to the back surface 102 of the tile 100 is marked on the side surfaces 103, 104, 105, and 106 of the tile in addition to or in place of the back surface 102, Make sure that tiles are properly positioned without having to turn them over. If the back color or pattern also appears on the side, a solid color plastic tile made of the color or pattern plastic used to mark the back of the game board square color or pattern as described above Tiles can be easily manufactured by attaching a front surface 101 on 100. This is because the color or pattern of the plastic tile is the back color as it is, and the side surfaces 103, 104, 105, and 106 of the tile will automatically receive the back color or pattern of the tile. .

  As already mentioned, the nine different tile fronts shown in FIG. 18 are sufficient and necessary to complete the complete pattern of tiles shown in FIGS. When combined with the patterning or coloring of the back surface 102, each of the nine different tile fronts of the minimum range set is each of four patterns or colors representing each of the four series, and the square 2001 shown in FIG. And may be combined with a fifth pattern or color used to indicate a colorless square on the game board that is not marked. This combination of nine different fronts and five different backs creates the possibility of 45 different tiles. Table 1 shows the respective numbers of these 45 tiles that appear when the tile front surface 101 is designed as shown in FIG. 18 and the game board is designed as shown in FIG. The tile front is identified in the leftmost column of Table 1 by the number of small squares with horizontal lines on the front of the tile as depicted in FIG. The back of the tile is specified by the pattern attached to the back of the tile at the top of the second to sixth columns. The rightmost column shows the total number of tiles of each type. The last line shows the total number of tiles of each type.

Table 1 will help in quickly producing the appropriate number of tiles in the preferred embodiment. In addition, this table summarizes the number of 324 squares on the game board that can be occupied by 45 different tiles. For example, tiles with horizontal lines on four small squares on the front and vertical lines on the back can occupy any of six different positions on the game board of FIG.













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Some variations of the rules may be employed by those skilled in the art to adapt to the present invention. However, in order to complete the description of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a set of rules that best satisfy the above object of the present invention is given as an example.
a. Each player closes his eyes and removes the nine tiles from the bag and places them up to hide the back from other players. Initially there are 320 tiles in the bag, so 1 to 35 players can join the game.
b. All players start at the same time and continue to place tiles on the game board as described in the next rule. A player can participate in an ongoing game by starting with one more tile than the maximum number of tiles that other players have at the time that the player wants to join.
c. Tiles must be placed in series, touching at least one already placed on the game board. Starting from the middle of the series and contact at the corners or sides are allowed. (In one proposed embodiment, the requirement to touch a tile already on the game board is that the tile is properly positioned in the series that will be created when the gap is finally filled. The single color on the back of the tile must match the color of the destination square, but this element is reserved during the instructional game.
d. If the tile cannot be placed on the game board, the player closes his eyes and removes one tile from the bag and adds it to his hand.
e. If a single tile cannot be placed and gets stuck, the player may return the tile to the bag and take out the three tiles for replacement.
f. If it finds that a tile has been placed in the wrong position, the player must pick it up and take three more tiles out of the bag. Tiles that are misplaced but cannot be identified as a player are removed from the game board and returned to the tile bag.
g. The player who runs out of tiles first is the winner. In the case of a one-player game, the goal is to complete the process while minimizing the number of tiles to be arranged.

  The preferred embodiment of the present invention using the example rules just described satisfies all desired objectives except for use by blind people. In order to satisfy this purpose, it is the method already described as known in the prior art, but it has a square recess for the tile so that it can touch the tile used for play without moving. It is necessary to manufacture a game board. The necessity of embossing the element display indicating the series to which each quadrant belongs on the front of the tile has already been described. Therefore, in a game manufactured for the blind person to play, each of the four series has a unique figure for identifying itself, and these unique figures have directionality as described above. Not done. The game for blind people also has a pattern or color scheme used by those who are not blind, and both blind and non-blind players can play together. In addition to giving the back of the tile a pattern or color that corresponds to the square pattern or color of the game board where the tile can be placed, to represent the series to which the back of the tile belongs by the pattern or color If you have to emboss an enlarged version of the symbol or graphic that you want to use and if the back of the tile does not belong to a series, leave it smooth. Finally, the squares on the game board are patterned or colored as shown in FIG. 20 and can be recessed to accommodate the embossed graphics used to represent the series and marked on the back of the tiles. If they are unmarked squares, they remain smooth.

  The features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent when the following detailed description is understood in conjunction with the drawings. In the drawings, reference numerals are identified throughout.

A play piece or tile is shown. It shows how the front of the tile can be divided into four quadrants. Shown is the front of the tile divided into quadrants to allow for horizontal and vertical series. Fig. 4 shows a preferred embodiment of the front face of a tile that is divided into quadrants to allow an oblique series. One horizontal series is shown. One horizontal series and an inverted series running in the opposite direction to this series are shown. A third vertical series and its inverted series are shown, intersecting one horizontal series and its inverted series at right angles. As shown in FIG. 2A, a display mechanism is shown for tiles divided into four parts. 7 shows another embodiment of a game tile using the display mechanism shown in FIG. One diagonal series is shown. It shows one diagonal series and an inverted series running in the opposite direction of this series. A diagonal third series and its inverted series are shown, intersecting one diagonal series and its inverted series at right angles. It shows how half of the game board pattern is determined by placing one tile. It shows how placing the second tile determines the other half of the game board. 12 shows how the result is a fully determined tile placement on the game board when the tile from FIG. 12 is placed in the blank of FIG. It shows a method for representing numbers on tiles with a display similar to that used for playing cards. Fig. 4 shows how to use the shape and geometric shape of a children's toy as an indication for the representation of numbers on a tile. These displays are shown for tiles having quadrants divided as in FIG. 2A. These displays are shown for tiles having quadrants divided as in FIG. 2B. It shows a method for using a counterclockwise spiral square starting from the center of the tile as a display for representing numbers on the tile. Fig. 4 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a method for using a clockwise spiral square starting from the outer corner of a tile as an indication for representing numbers on the tile. FIG. 5 illustrates a minimum range set of nine distinct tiles required to complete all series and fill a game board in a preferred embodiment of the present invention. It shows a simple 18 × 18 square game board with no surface markings across the square where the tiles are placed. Fig. 2 shows a game board in a preferred embodiment, in which the squares of the game board are marked with nine tiles similar to the nine tiles of the range set, but 6 times larger than the nine range tiles; Each square of the resulting game board will accommodate one tile. It shows how a game board can be divided in half to facilitate manufacturing, packing, and shipping, as well as stacking, moving, and storing partially tiled boards. A preferred embodiment of four fixing tiles and their placement on a board is shown. The upper left quarter is shown for the preferred embodiment game board with all tiles placed and fully played. However, since the game board does not have a preferred upper or lower end or directionality, such direction designation is nominal only. The lower left quarter is shown for the preferred embodiment game board with all tiles placed and fully played. The upper right quarter is shown for the preferred embodiment game board with all tiles placed and fully played. The lower right quarter is shown for the preferred embodiment game board with all tiles placed and fully played. A mirror image of a game board according to a preferred embodiment is shown. This image is marked on the back of the tile shown in FIGS.

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  A game comprising a plurality of pieces for play, each of which belongs to four distinct series as elements at the same time. The front of the play piece is divided into quadrants that are probably separable,
One of the quadrants is for each of the distinguishable series to which the play piece belongs,
Each of the quadrants has a unique mark identifying it in relation to the series to which the quadrant belongs;
The game according to claim 1, wherein a mark for displaying an element of a series to which the quadrant belongs belongs to each of the quadrants.   The game according to claim 2, wherein the play pieces are square tiles.   The game according to claim 2, wherein the mark for displaying an element of a series to which each quadrant belongs is expressed by a number.   4. The game of claim 3, wherein the quadrant covering the front of the tile is a right isosceles triangle that is possibly separable. Each of the quadrants of the right isosceles triangle covering the front of the tile is again divided into nine smaller right isosceles triangles of the same dimensions that fill the quadrant;
In the nine triangles, the triangles adjacent to each other on the sides are reversed.
All nine are triangles that are adjacent by the side and the hypotenuse of the middle triangle coincides with the outer edge of the tile, and the right vertex of the triangle that is adjacent by the side is the middle triangle of the first five triangles. 6. The next three triangles that coincide with the right-angled vertex of and the hypotenuse are arranged in a pattern consisting of the next one triangle that coincides with the hypotenuse of the middle triangle of the three triangles. The game described. Each of the quadrants of the right isosceles triangle covering the surface of the tile has a geometric or graphical representation from 1 to 9 displaying the elements of the series to which the quadrant belongs; The displays from 1 to 9 are arranged as a stack of three rows each consisting of five, three and one display,
The five display columns are positioned outside the tile, the one display column is positioned at the apex of the right isosceles triangle, the three display columns are the five display columns, and the one display. The game of claim 5, which is located between rows of   The game of claim 7, wherein the graphical display is embossed on the front of the tile.   4. The game of claim 3, wherein the quadrant covering the front of the tile is a square that is possibly separable and the game is played on a game board.   The indicia indicating the elements of the series to which each quadrant belongs is made up of a set of diagrams that are embossed on the front of the tile and do not have a specific orientation so that blind persons can perceive the element numbers and the series to which they belong The board game according to claim 9, which is configured as described above.   The indicia indicating the elements of the series to which each quadrant belongs is represented by a geometrical, graphical or other shape pattern, one of such shapes being in the normal quadrant of each quadrant. The board game according to claim 9, wherein the board game is arranged like numbers of cards from ace to nine. The mark displaying the elements of the series to which each quadrant belongs is a set of nine small squares in a 3x3 pattern;
The number of small squares with a distinguishable pattern or color displays the elements of the series to which the quadrant belongs, and identifies the series,
The nine squares are added to the first square that is patterned or colored, either on the innermost or outermost side of the quadrant, followed by a square that increases the number of elements in the quadrant When they are placed so that they touch the square and the sides and are added in a clockwise or counterclockwise spiral,
In the board game,
A minimal set of nine distinct play tile front patterns constitutes a minimum range set that, when duplicated, is sufficient to fill the entire game board with those tiles;
The game board is square,
10. The board game of claim 9, wherein the game board is marked into a square with the dimensions of a square play piece.   The game board is divided into two equally sized rectangular halves to facilitate manufacturing, packing, and shipping, and stacking, moving, and storing ongoing games, the halves playing the game The game board according to claim 12, wherein the game board is arranged in contact with each other.   The game board according to claim 12, wherein the game board is configured by an 18 × 18 matrix of 324 squares.   Claim 12 wherein two or more fixed tiles are permanently fixed to the game board in order to define a pattern for the player of the game and prevent the non-intersecting series from progressing when playing the game. The game board described.   Four fixed tiles are permanently attached to the game board in order to define patterns for the game players so that the non-intersecting series does not progress when the game is played, and to maintain the aesthetic symmetry of the game board. The game board according to claim 12 which is fixed.   The board game according to claim 12, wherein the image applied to the game board surface is an enlargement of the image produced by the minimum range set of play pieces. The game board is divided into nine pieces of equal dimensions, the nine pieces being identical to the nine play pieces of the minimum range set, but enlarged;
The board game according to claim 17, wherein the nine game board pieces can be used as play pieces for a larger game board with a similar mark. A mirror image of the image of the game board is attached to the back or side of the play piece or both the back and side,
Appropriate placement of the playing piece on the game board is based on the image attached to the back or side of the playing piece or both the back and side, and the corresponding position on the game board where the playing piece is to be placed. The board game according to claim 17, wherein the board game includes a requirement that the image matches. A graphic representing a series corresponding to the pattern or color on the back and / or side of each tile is embossed on the back of the tile, and the graphic is placed on a square on the game board having the same pattern or color. 20. A board game according to claim 19, wherein a recess is provided for accommodation, making the game available to a blind person.

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