RU2296605C1 - Apparatus for conducting of "cross-and-null" game in three-dimensional space - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: table games.

SUBSTANCE: apparatus has set of playing members, flat playing panels arranged in tiers and equipped with playing cells made in the form of through openings arranged in square order, and a number of playing platforms, each fixed on playing panel by means of rod-shaped retainer for rotation thereof in its plane around its axis. Each playing platform is made in the form of disk with playing cells identical in their shape and order of arrangement to those provided on playing panel. Playing platform retainer for retaining playing platform in predetermined position is made detachable. Additional through opening is formed in each of playing panels and playing platforms, said through opening being preferably provided between each two adjacent playing cells, in equally spaced relation with respect to their centers. Diameter of additional through opening is proportional to outer diameter of retainer.

EFFECT: wider range of table games and increased entertaining effect.

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Description

The invention relates to the field of entertainment, namely to entertaining games, in particular to the board game “Tic-Tac-Toe,” which is held in three-dimensional space and ends with the victory of the rival who will be the first to line up his game elements in one row, located, for example, one of the contours of any game panel or one of the verticals or diagonals of the playing field.

The game of "Tic-Tac-Toe" is very popular, the rules and conditions for its holding are well known to everyone. A piece of paper and a pencil - that’s all that is needed to conduct the game “Tic-Tac-Toe” on a square field of 3 by 3 cells, which people get to know, as a rule, in their very early childhood. Having drawn a square of nine cells on paper, each player alternately with a pencil puts down his sign in the cells - “cross” or “zero”. I managed to make a series of my three signs horizontally, vertically or diagonally of the playing field - I won.

Less well-known are the options for holding the game "Tic-Tac-Toe" on an infinite plane and in three-dimensional space. If the version of the game on an infinite plane, having much in common with the game 3 by 3 cells, in principle, only increases the area of the playing field, then the game “Tic-tac-toe” in three-dimensional space presents significantly greater game and combination possibilities for playing rivals in comparison with the planar varieties of this games. It’s not only interesting to play three-dimensional “Tic Tac Toe”: the game process is quite convenient and also interesting to watch from the side and it can be demonstrated to a significant number of fans,

The rules of a three-dimensional game are almost exactly the same as in ordinary “Tic-tac-toe”. Two opponents play, making alternate moves. On a plane field, the player, making his next move, crosses out the cell and thereby it is considered to be occupied by it. In the three-dimensional version of the game, the role of cells is played by holes or holes made in horizontally located and, as a rule, transparent game panels. Each of the rivals has a set of their game elements of a certain color. At the next move of one of the rivals, a free hole deals with its playing element. The winner is the one who first takes the line, for example, from three adjacent holes. Moreover, this can be any line on any of the playgrounds or one of the vertical or diagonal lines of the playing field, which is a cube. When conducting a game, depending on the overall dimensions of the playing field, the opponents as game elements can use: various balls, for example, from bearings; beads or vitamin pills; balls for playing "Ping Pong", which seems most appropriate; tennis, volleyball, football, basketball, etc. balls; as well as balloons of various diameters and shapes.

A device for conducting the game "Tic-tac-toe" is known, which allowed playing opponents to abandon paper and pencil, i.e. from such a not so interesting aspect of the game as the constant drawing on a square of nine squares on paper. In this device, the playing field is a flat square game panel with nine holes arranged in a square order in three rows and designed to accommodate game elements that are made in the form of cylinders [1].

Conducting the Tic-Tac-Toe game using this device determines either a draw for the end of the game in the case of a reasonable tactics of both players, or a victory for the player who started the game first, in the case of the slightest mistake by his partner (the first option to end the game substantially prevails over the last ) In addition, this design of the playing field limits both the number of possible game situations (on 9 game cells the winning construction of game elements can be carried out only in 8 rows) and the number of possible options in the rules of the game.

All this greatly limits the scope of entertainment of the game "Tic Tac Toe" when it is played on this device and, therefore, is its drawback.

Along with this, there is a known device for conducting the game “Tic-Tac-Toe”, the playing field of which has the shape of a cube and is formed by three flat square game panels having the same overall dimensions (nine game cells are made in each panel, arranged in a square row in three rows), which are made of a transparent material and by means of rod-shaped racks (also transparent) are installed parallel to one another and at the same distance from each other [2].

The game of “Tic-tac-toe” in three-dimensional space, which takes place when using this device, seems more entertaining (in 27 game cells the winning construction of game elements can be carried out in 43 rows), but its entertainment possibilities are also limited due to the three-row arrangement of game cells as with the device described above.

This is due to the fact that under the fundamental condition of holding the game "Tic-Tac-Toe", i.e. subject to the construction of three identical game elements in one row, the player who usually starts the game always wins on this device, as a rule. And for this, for him, even in the case of a reasonable tactic of his opponent, it is enough to place only four to five game elements in the playing field.

There is also known a device for conducting the game "Tic-tac-toe" in three-dimensional space, the design of which made it possible to eliminate the disadvantage inherent in the above-described device. The playing field of this device has the shape of a cube and is formed by four flat square game panels made of organic glass and having the same overall dimensions. In this device, game panels, each of which has sixteen game cells arranged in four rows in a square order, are rigidly interconnected by rod-shaped racks and installed floor-by-floor, i.e. parallel and at the same distance one relative to the other [3].

The game “Tic-tac-toe” on this device is more interesting in comparison with the devices described above, and not only because in 64 game cells the winning construction of game elements can be carried out in 76 rows, but also because both opponents have the beginning of the game there are equal chances to win.

However, this device is also not without the presence of certain drawbacks, the consequence of which is a certain limitation both in the number of possible game situations and in the number of possible options in the rules of the game, which predetermines the insufficiently high degree of the game’s amusement when it is compared with the entertainment that can be achieved when playing "Tic-tac-toe" in three-dimensional space. The insufficiently high degree of entertaining the game and the degree of influence on the development of spatial imagination of the players, due to the location of any of the game elements on the game panel unchanged during the game after its installation in the game cell, are the main disadvantages of this gaming device.

In addition, it is known a device for conducting the game “Tic-tac-toe” in three-dimensional space, in which each of the four floor-mounted square game panels is made with sixteen orderly arranged cells to accommodate game elements and provided with at least two playgrounds. Each of these sites is made in the form of a disk, interconnected with the game panel by means of a rod-shaped lock, mounted for rotation around its axis in the plane of the game panel and has four game cells in the form of through holes, the sizes and arrangement of which correspond to the sizes and order of arrangement of game cells made in the game panel. In this device, the position lock of the playing court has a rod-like shape and is formed by two threaded elements screwed together, the free ends of which are made in the form of flat washers, and as a result is a “fixed structure” [4].

This device, which is the closest to the proposed technical essence and the achieved result when using it, is adopted as a prototype.

In comparison with the device described above, it, due to the possibility of simultaneously changing the location of four game elements at once, provided by one unconventional move, that is, turning one of the playgrounds around its axis, for example, by 90 degrees, can significantly increase the game’s entertainingness and predetermine faster development playing spatial imagination.

However, increasing the entertainingness of the game and the development of spatial imagination inherent in this device do not reach the levels that are possible with the game “Tic-tac-toe”, conducted in three-dimensional space, which is the main disadvantage of this gaming device.

This disadvantage is due to the fact that in this device the game elements during the rotation of the playing field cannot be displayed outside the playing field, which is a cube, the size of which is determined by the width of the game panel.

The present invention solves a problem that can be described as expanding the arsenal of technical means for a specific purpose, and its technical result consists in realizing this purpose and is provided by increasing the entertainingness of the game and the fastest development in spatial imaginative games.

The solution of the problem in a device for playing a game in three-dimensional space, including a set of game elements, flat game panels mounted horizontally one above the other and made with game cells in the form of through holes located in a square order, and several playgrounds, each of which a rod-shaped latch is mounted on the game panel with the possibility of rotation in its plane around its axis and is made in the form of a disk with game cells identical in shape and order location of the game panel to the game cells is achieved due to the fact that the position lock of the playing field is removable, and in the game panel and in the playing area between predominantly every two adjacent playing cells at the same distance from their centers, an additional through hole is made, commensurate clamp diameter.

The proposed gaming device is illustrated by drawings:

figure 1 presents the appearance of the device, side view;

figure 2 presents the appearance of the device, a top view, (the lower playground is in its original position);

figure 3 shows the position lock of the playing field and the embodiment of the holes of the game cells;

Figures 4 and 5 show options for the arrangement of game elements when the lower playground is rotated 90 and 180 degrees.

The following is an example of a specific implementation of the proposed device, not excluding other options for its implementation in the scope of the claims.

A device for conducting the game “Tic-tac-toe” in three-dimensional space, the playing field of which (see FIGS. 1 and 2) has the shape of a cube, contains a square base 1 with four rod-shaped support posts 2, four identical flat square game panels 3, in each of which sixteen game cells 4 are made, several identical flat disk-shaped playgrounds 5, in each of which four game cells 6 are made, and two sets of game elements 7, differing from each other in the color of the surface, etc. dstavlyayuschimi a balls to play "ping pong".

In this device, support racks 2 having slots for accommodating game panels and rigidly fixed in the base 1, game panels 3, which by means of the racks 2 are located above the base 1 floor, i.e. parallel to each other and at the same distance from one another, and the playgrounds 5 are made of transparent material (organic glass) and have the same thickness, and the gaming cells 4 and 6 of the game panels 3 and the playgrounds 5 located in the same square order are made in the form of through holes having the same diameters. The game pad 5 on the game panel 3 is installed (see FIG. 3) with the possibility of rotation around its axis in the plane of the game panel and is interconnected with it via a fixing unit, which can be formed made in the game panel 3 and in the playground 5 and having the same the diameter of the mounting holes 8 and 9 and the lock 10 of the position of the playing field, which is in the simplest embodiment, for example, a two-stage cylinder, one of the stages of which has a larger diameter and is its handle (figure 3 - top ya), and the second one has a diameter commensurate with the landing holes 8 and 9. In the game panels 3 and in the playgrounds 5 of the device, an additional through hole is made between each two adjacent gaming cells, respectively, 11 and 12, which are located at the same distance from the centers of these cells 4 and 6 and has a diameter commensurate with the diameter of the smaller step of the latch 10.

The game "Tic Tac Toe" on the proposed device is as follows.

Playing rivals (two or more), each of which has its own set of game elements, based on the basic rule: “The game ends when four game elements (balls) of the same color are built in a row”, agree on the special conditions for the game, which are mainly interrelated with the number of playgrounds on the game panel and with options for fixing their position.

Opponents can be accepted, for example, the following special conditions:

1. Each game panel (see figure 2) is equipped with two playgrounds;

2. Playgrounds on game panels are installed before the start of the game;

3. On the game panels, the playgrounds are installed with different locations, changing in the vertical plane as you move from one game panel to another;

4. On each game panel, one of the playgrounds is installed by means of a latch inserted into holes 8 and 9 (in FIGS. 2, 4 and 5 - the upper one), and the second by means of a latch inserted into additional holes 11 and 12 (in FIG. 2, 4 and 5 - lower).

5. During the game, the location of the latches 10 does not change.

6. Instead of the next traditional (fundamental) move, i.e. instead of installing a game element in the game cell, the player can make an unconventional move, i.e. he can turn one any playground;

7. The playing field can only be rotated 90 degrees;

8. The playing field can be rotated in any direction;

9. The winning row of balls can be composed (built) in any direction: horizontally, vertically or diagonally of any game panel, or along one of the verticals or diagonals of the playing field.

After reaching a mutual agreement, arranging the playing fields 5 and the latches 10 and drawing the order of the turn, the opponents (see Fig. 2), trying to make up a row of their four balls as quickly as possible, begin to alternately install in the cells 4 of the game panels 3 and in the cells 6 of the game pads 5 game elements 7, i.e. light and dark balls. Moreover, they sometimes instead of their next fundamental (traditional) move turn one of the playgrounds 5, located on any of the game panels 3 of the playing field, by an angle equal to 90 degrees. So, for example, in a game situation that has developed on the upper game panel 3 of the device and the next move of the player owning dark balls 7 (see Fig. 2), he can rotate the lower playing area 5 90 degrees in a clockwise direction. Upon the implementation and completion of such a rotation of this playing field (see Fig. 4) due to the fact that the latch 10 is installed in the additional holes of the panel and the platform, three game elements extend outside the playing field, and the dark balls 7 are arranged in one winning row, which and indicates the end of the game. If we assume that such a turn of the playing court did not lead to the completion of the game, then a further turn of the same court (see Fig. 5) by 90 degrees (which is equivalent to a turn of the court from its original position by 180 degrees) would be advantageous for the player owning light balls (in this position of the playing field, two playing elements went beyond the playing field).

In the General case, the game on this device ends when building four one-color balls in a winning row, which can be located (see figure 1), for example, along the diagonal of the playing field.

The design of the proposed device is quite simple, but still requires compliance with certain conditions.

Each playground 5 should be located strictly in the center between four cells 4 of the game panel 3, because otherwise, the symmetry in the arrangement of game elements 7 is violated, providing the best conditions for the visual perception of the game situation. As a result, on the game panels 3, the center of each landing hole 8 of the fixation unit must coincide with the center of the conditional square, the corners of which are the centers of four adjacent game cells 4.

The diameter of the playing court 5, the side surface of which should extend beyond the boundaries of the game panel 3, should be such that when several platforms 5 are placed on the same game panel, they do not touch each other, and when they rotate, the game elements 7 located on the same platform do not would collide with game elements located on another playground. The landing hole 9 of the playing field should be made strictly in the center of the conditional square, the corners of which are the centers of the playing cells 6.

The number of additional holes 11 and 12, respectively, made in the game panel 3 and in the playground 5, in the optimal embodiment, the device is shown in FIGS. 2, 4 and 5. If the number of additional holes 12 in the playground 5 is reduced (at least one hole), this will somewhat “narrow down” the gaming capabilities of the device, and the increase in the number of additional holes 11 in the game panel 3, on the contrary, will expand the gaming capabilities of the device.

A comparative analysis of the known and proposed devices for conducting the game "Tic-Tac-Toe" in three-dimensional space shows significant structural advantages of the latter. These advantages are expressed in the fact that during the game some of the game elements can go out of the cubic playing field and this determines the solution of the task.

Information sources

1. "Tic-tac-toe", the magazine "Trowel", 1990, issue No. 44, pp. 28-29.

2. “For skilled hands”, an appendix to the journal “Young Technician”, 1987, No. 1, p. 3.

3. “Tic-tac-toe in three dimensions,” journal. Science and Life, 1985, p. 153.

4. Copyright certificate of the USSR No. 1493274, A 63 F 3/02, 1987.

Claims (1)

A device for playing a game in three-dimensional space, including a set of game elements, flat game panels installed floor-by-stage and made with game cells in the form of through holes arranged in a square order, and several playgrounds, each of which is mounted on a game panel with a rod-shaped latch the possibility of rotation in its plane around its axis and is made in the form of a disk with game cells identical in shape and order of arrangement to the game cells of the game panel, exc characterized in that the position lock of the playing field is removable, and in the game panel and in the playing area between predominantly every two adjacent playing cells at the same distance from their centers, an additional through hole is made, which has a diameter commensurate with the outer diameter of the lock.

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