US20200070040A1

US20200070040A1 - Board game device

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Publication number: US20200070040A1
Application number: US16/466,178
Authority: US
Inventors: Jung Hwan BANG
Original assignee: Fi Entertainment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Korea Boardgames Ltd
Priority date: 2016-12-01
Filing date: 2017-10-25
Publication date: 2020-03-05
Also published as: KR20180062854A; WO2018101609A3; WO2018101609A2; CN110612145A; CN110612145B; EP3549647A4; EP3549647A2; KR101908674B1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a board game device, and particularly to a board game device whereby game boards may be separated or coupled. The present invention enables creating a single game board by coupling a plurality of game boards, thereby enabling the volume of the game board to be reduced when storing same. The present invention enables replacing section display boards on which sections are displayed, thereby enabling various kinds of games to be played by means of a single board game device. In addition, the present invention is provided with a transparent game board cover enabling the section display boards to be visible, and has protrusions inserted into structures formed on the upper part of the cover so as to prevent the structures from being easily separated.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

The present application is a National Phase of International Application No. PCT/KR2017/011841, filed on Oct. 25, 2017, which is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Korean Patent Application No. 10-2016-0163014, filed on Dec. 1 2016. The disclosures of the above-listed applications are hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.

1. FIELD

The present disclosure relates to a board game set. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a board game set in which playing boards may be coupled to or decoupled from each other and a building-miniature is fixed to a playing board during gameplay.

2. DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART

In a board game, while a player piece or a card is disposed on a playing board, a game proceeds according to a certain rule. The board game may include various kinds of games. Among them, in a marble game, a player piece moves on the playing board by a sum of the numbers of two dice as thrown, and an action corresponding to a section at which the player piece has arrived is taken. Each of the sections along which the player piece moves may correspond to a capital of each country. A national certificate indicating an ownership of a corresponding area contains simple information about the area.
A board game set for playing such a board game includes a playing board and a player piece. The playing board usually includes a rectangular playing board. However, the conventional board game set has a bulky playing board and takes up a lot of storage space. Further, in the conventional board game set, a building miniature is placed on the playing board. Accordingly, the building miniature is not fixed on the playing board, so that when the playing board is impacted during the game, the building miniature moves or falls down from the playing board.

DISCLOSURE

Technical Purposes

A purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a board game set with a building-miniature fixed on a playing board.
Further, another purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a board game set in which various games may be operated on a single board game via exchange between various section-defining plates.

Technical Solutions

In one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a board game set comprising: a playing board having a top face divided into a plurality of sections; a building miniature having a groove defined in a bottom face thereof, wherein the building miniature is fixable to the board; and a building miniature-fixing protrusion formed on the top face of the playing board, wherein the building miniature-fixing protrusion is constructed to be inserted into the groove defined the building miniature.
In one embodiment, the playing board includes: an elongate body having a rectangular box shape; a transparent elongate cover covering a top face of the elongate body; and an elongate section-defining plate removably inserted between the elongate body and the elongate cover, wherein the elongate section-defining plate has a top face divided into a plurality of sections.
In one embodiment, the building miniature-fixing protrusion is formed on the elongate cover, wherein a slit is defined in the building miniature-fixing protrusion.
In one embodiment, the building miniature-fixing protrusion includes a plurality of building miniature-fixing protrusions spaced apart from each other, wherein a projection is formed on an inner face of each building miniature-fixing protrusion in the slit, wherein the projection protrudes horizontally from the inner face of each building miniature-fixing protrusion, and each building miniature-fixing protrusion protrudes vertically from a top face of the cover.
In one embodiment, the projection is formed on one or the other of both facing-away inner faces of each building miniature-fixing protrusion in the slit. In one embodiment, the projections are sequentially arranged in a staggered manner along the plurality of building miniature-fixing protrusions.

Technical Effects

According to the present disclosure, the transparent elongate cover may allow the elongate section-defining plate to be viewable to a user. Further, the protrusion inserted into the building miniature may be formed on the transparent elongate cover. Thus, the building miniature does not easily deviate from the playing board even when the user changes an orientation of the playing board from a horizontal direction to a vertical direction or when the playing board is impacted during the game.
Further, according to the present disclosure, various games may be operated on a single board game via exchange between various section-defining plates.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a board game set according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a first playing board of the board game set according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a combination of a first playing board and a fourth playing board in the board game set according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view illustrating a coupling between first to fourth playing boards in the board game set according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 5A and FIG. 5B are perspective views showing a building miniature fastened to a building miniature-fixing protrusion in the board game set according to the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a first playing board for illustrating a first elongate section-defining plate in the board game set according to the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
However, the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiment disclosed below, but may be embodied in various forms. The embodiment is merely provided to allow the present disclosure to be complete, and to fully illustrate the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a board game set according to the present disclosure. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a playing board of a board game set according to the present disclosure.
The board game set according to the present disclosure includes a playing board assembly 100 having a plurality of boards, each board having multiple sections as shown in FIG. 1; a plurality of player pieces 200 moving between the plurality of sections, a building miniature 300 fixedly disposed on at least one of the plurality of sections, and a money piece 400 required for a board game. Further, the board game set may further include a national certificate as awarded when purchasing a country section and marking a toll thereon, and special cards indicating various events. Further, the game set may include a die (not shown) for determining the number of sections along which the player piece moves based on a play order. In one example, the die may include a general die of a hexahedron. Alternative, an electronic die that displays a corresponding natural number from 1 to 6 when a corresponding button thereof is pressed.
The playing board assembly 100 is configured for playing a board game. The playing board assembly 100 has a shape of a square frame in a plan view, and a plurality of sections is displayed on a top face thereof. The playing board assembly 100 includes a first elongate playing board 110, a second elongate playing board 120 connected to the first elongate playing board 110, and a third elongate playing board 130 connected to the second elongate playing board 120, and a fourth elongate playing board 140 connected to the third elongate playing board 130 and the first elongate playing board 110. In this connection, the first elongate playing board 110 and the second elongate playing board 120, the third elongate playing board 130 and the fourth elongate playing board 140 according to the present disclosure have the same shape. Further, the second elongate playing board 120 includes a second elongate body 121, a second elongate cover 122 and a second elongate section-defining plate 123. The third elongate playing board 130 includes a third elongate body 131, a third elongate cover 132, and a third elongate section-defining plate 133. Further, the fourth elongate playing board 140 includes a fourth elongate body 141, a fourth elongate cover 142 and a fourth elongate section-defining plate 143. Therefore, the first elongate playing board 110 will be mainly described below. However, the first elongate section-defining plate 113 in the first elongate playing board 110 to be described later may be different from each of the second elongate section-defining plate 123, the third elongate section-defining plate 123, and the fourth elongate section-defining plate 143 respectively belonging to the second elongate playing board 120, the third elongate playing board 130 and the fourth elongate playing board 140.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a playing board of a board game set according to the present disclosure. FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a first playing board of the board game set according to the present disclosure. FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a combination of a first playing board and a fourth playing board in the board game set according to the present disclosure. FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view illustrating a coupling between first to fourth playing boards in the board game set according to the present disclosure.
The first elongate playing board 110 is a unit constituting a playing board assembly 100. As shown in FIG. 2, the first elongate playing board 110 includes a first elongate body 111, a first elongate cover 112 covering a top of the first elongate body 111, and a first section-defining plate 113 disposed between the first elongate body 111 and the first elongate cover 112.
The first elongate body 111 is embodied as a hollow rectangular box, and has a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface. Further, a first elongate body hook-receiving groove 111 b is formed in a top edge of the first elongate body 111 to be engaged with a first elongate cover hook 112 b of the first elongate cover 112. In this connection, the first elongate body hook-receiving groove 111 b may include at least one groove defined along the top edge of the first elongate body 111. Accordingly, the number of the first elongate cover hooks 112 b is increased or decreased in a corresponding manner to the number of the first elongate body hook-receiving grooves 111 b. Further, the first elongate body 111 has a first elongate body protrusion 111 a and first elongate body groove (having the same shape as a component 141 c in FIG. 3) such that the first elongate body 111 is combined with adjacent elongate bodies. The first elongate body protrusion 111 a is engaged with a groove in a first adjacent elongate body, while the first elongate body groove is engaged with a protrusion of a second adjacent elongate body. For example, referring to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the first elongate body protrusion 111 a is joined with a fourth elongate body groove, while the first elongate body groove is engaged with the second elongate body protrusion.
In one example, a magnet may be provided on an inner face of the groove of the first elongate body 111 and in an interior of the first elongate body protrusion 111 a. Further, although not shown, a magnet may be provided on an inner face of the second elongate body groove and in the second elongate body protrusion. Further, although not shown, a magnet may be provided on an inner face of the third elongate body groove and in the third elongate body protrusion. Further, although not shown, a magnet may be provided on an inner face of the fourth elongate body groove and in the fourth elongate body protrusion. In this case, a coupling force between the elongate body groove and the elongate body protrusion as paired is increased by the magnetic force. That is, a coupling force between the first elongate playing board 110 and the second elongate playing board 120, and a coupling force between the third elongate playing board 130 and the fourth elongate playing board 140 may be increased. Further, a special mark receiving groove may be formed along an edge of the first elongate body 111. In this connection, the special mark is allocated to a country section owned by a single player. Thus, when the other player arrives at the country section where the special mark is allocated, a toll may be increased by a multiple of an indicated number thereon and may be imposed to the other player.
FIG. 5A and FIG. 5B are perspective views showing a building miniature fastened to a building miniature-fixing protrusion in a board game set according to the present disclosure.
The first elongate cover 112 is disposed on a top surface of the first elongate body 111 so that the first elongate section-defining plate 113 may be provided between the first elongate body 111 and the first elongate cover 112. The first elongate cover 112 is formed to align with the first elongate body 111. Further, the first elongate cover 112 is formed of a transparent material so that the section of the first elongate section-defining plate 113 may be viewed to the user through the first elongate cover 112. Accordingly, the first elongate section-defining plate 113 is visible through the first elongate cover 112. Thus, in one example, a slit or protruding line formed on a top surface of the first elongate cover 112 defines a boundary dividing the first elongate section-defining plate 113 into sections. The player piece 200 moves on and along the top surface of first elongate cover 112. The building miniature 300 is placed on a top face of the cover 112. As shown in FIG. 5A, a fixing protrusion 112 a is formed on a top face of the first elongate cover 112. Thus, the fixing protrusion 112 a is inserted into a recess formed in a bottom face of the building miniature 300 to prevent the building miniature 300 from being easily detached from the first elongate cover 112. The first building miniature-fixing-protrusion 112 a may include two rectangular protrusions separated from each other, each protrusion has a rectangular shape as a whole as shown in FIG. 5A. However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Two semicircular protrusions may be spaced apart from each other, or two elliptical protrusions may be spaced apart from each other, or two polygon protrusions may be spaced apart from each other, to define the first building miniature-fixing-protrusion 112 a. In a marble game as illustrated by way of example in this embodiment, at least three building miniatures may be allocated to one section (one country section). Thus, as shown in FIG. 5B, three first building miniature-fixing-protrusions 112 a are formed for each section, each section being defined by a border corresponding to a slit or protruding line. The present disclosure is not limited thereto. The number of the first building miniature-fixing-protrusions 112 a for each section may vary according to game rules. In this connection, the building miniature according to the present disclosure may be embodied as a thin card form in addition to a three-dimension type as shown in FIG. 5A. In this case, the first building miniature-fixing-protrusion 112 a, as shown in FIG. 5B, may have a slit formed in the first building miniature-fixing-protrusion 112 a. Thus, the card-shaped building miniature 300 may be inserted and fixed in the corresponding slit. In this case, the slit width in the first building miniature-fixing-protrusion 112 a is shown as large in FIG. 5B. This is only for convenience of illustration of a configuration of the slit. However, the actual slit is formed to be narrow enough to allow the card-shaped building miniature from being fitted into the slit and thus to be prevented from being separated from the slit. That is, the slit width in the first building miniature-fixing-protrusion 112 a is sized to be smaller than a thickness of the card-shaped building miniature. Further, a projection e is formed on an inner face of the protrusion 112 a in the slit. As shown in FIG. 5B, the projections e are arranged in a zigzag form along a plurality of first building miniature-fixing-protrusions 112 a so that the card-shaped building miniature is more tightly fitted into the slit. Further, the first elongate cover 112 has the number of first elongate cover hooks 112 b corresponding to the number of the first elongate body hook-receiving grooves 111 b as described above. Each hook 112 b may extend downward from an edge of the first elongate cover 112. Accordingly, the first elongate cover 112 is fastened to a top edge of the first elongate body 111 while a space for receiving the first elongate section-defining plate is formed between the top surface of the first elongate body 111 and the bottom surface of the first elongate cover 112.
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a first playing board for illustrating a first elongate section-defining plate in a board game set according to the present disclosure.
The first elongate section-defining plate 113 is inserted into the first elongate section-defining plate insert space formed between the top face of the first elongate body 111 and a bottom face of the first elongate cover 112, as shown in FIG. 6. The first elongate section-defining plate 113 has a shape corresponding to a shape of the top surface of the first elongate body 111 in the plan view. A thickness of the plate 113 is preferably sized to a size of a paper, so that the plate 113 may be inserted into the first elongate section-defining plate insertion space formed between the top face of the first elongate body 111 and a bottom face of the first elongate cover 112. Further, a plurality of sections are displayed on the top surface of the first elongate section-defining plate 113. The plurality of sections may include a plurality of first country sections and at least one or more first special sections.
The first country section displays each of various countries. In one example, the first elongate section-defining plate 113 displays Bangkok, Beijing, Dokdo, Taipei, Dubai, and Cairo listed as a national section. These country sections display sales prices of the countries together with the name of the country.
The first special section refers to a section in which a special event occurs and which is different than the first country section. This embodiment illustrates a start section and a bonus game section as the first special section.
The start section is defined only in the first elongate section-defining plate 113. From the start section, all player pieces 200 participating in the board game depart. That is, all player pieces 200 are placed on the start section before the board game starts. When the player piece 200 has passed all of the first elongate section-defining plate 113, the second elongate section-defining plate 123, the third elongate section-defining plate 133, and the fourth elongate section-defining plate 133 and then arrived at the start section, the corresponding player piece 200 may receive a money piece 400 of a predetermined amount.
The bonus game section allows the player who arrives at the bonus game section to perform a bonus game. For this purpose, a separate bonus playing board may be provided. This bonus playing board may be, for example, a rotatable board. Further, the bonus playing board may display thereon various instructions that affect a game progress of other players, or a player playing a bonus game, such as, for example, rolling a die once, getting a money piece from a bank, etc. The bonus game section may be displayed between the start section and the country section, or between the country sections.
The second elongate section-defining plate 123 is provided on the top face of the first elongate body 111. Various sections such as country sections are displayed on the second elongate section-defining plate 123. Accordingly, a plurality of second country sections and at least one second special sections are displayed on the top face of the second elongate section-defining plate 123.
The second country sections may include a number of country sections. For example, the number of country sections may include Bali, Tokyo, Sydney, Quebec, Hawaii and Sao Paulo.
The second special section refers to a section at which an event occurs similarly to the first special section. In this embodiment, the second special section illustrates an uninhabited island section and a special card section.
The uninhabited island section prevents the player arriving thereto from leaving the uninhabited island section for a predetermined number of board game runs. In one example, in a special circumstance, for example, a player in an uninhabited island section might be able to get out of the uninhabited island section immediately in a situation when the player rolling two dice gets the same number therebetween.
The special card section allows a player who arrives at the special card section to have a special card marked with a predetermined event. In this connection, on the special card, various events may be marked including an event at which the player arriving at a country section owned by another player may not pay for the toll corresponding to the country section owned by another player, or an event at which the player sells a country section with the highest selling price among the country sections owned by the other players.
The third elongate section-defining plate 133 may display thereon a third national section and a third special section similarly to the first elongate section-defining plate 113 and the second elongate section-defining plate 123 as described above. The third elongate section-defining plate 133 may display thereon, Rome and Geneva, Moscow, Berlin, Phuket and Prague.
The third special section includes the winner prize section. The winner prize section pays the prize money to the player who has the player piece arriving at that section. For example, a total amount of taxes collected from players arriving at a national tax office and including a corresponding player at arriving at the third special section and other players may be provided to the corresponding player arriving at the prize section as the third special section.
The fourth elongate section-defining plate 143 displays, thereon, a fourth country section and a fourth special section. In this embodiment, the fourth elongate section-defining plate 143 displays, thereon, Seoul and New York, Paris, London and Tahiti.
The fourth special section is displayed between the fourth country sections. The fourth special section may include a national tax office section, a special card section and a space travel section. In this connection, the special card section is the same as described above, so a description thereof will be omitted.
On the national tax office section, the player may pay for a certain amount of tax. On the space travel section, the player who arrives at this section may move a player piece thereof to a desired section.
As described above, in accordance with the present disclosure, a plurality of playing boards may be combined to form a playing board assembly to reduce a storage volume when storing the playing boards. Further, in accordance with the present disclosure, an elongate section-defining plate may be replaced with another elongate section-defining plate, so that a variety of games can be implemented with a single game board. In accordance with the present disclosure, the transparent elongate cover may allow the elongate section-defining plate to be viewable to a user. Further, the protrusion inserted into the building miniature may be formed on the transparent elongate cover. Thus, the building miniature does not easily deviate from the playing board even when the user changes an orientation of the playing board from a horizontal direction to a vertical direction or when the playing board is impacted during the game.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that although the present disclosure has been described with reference to the drawings and embodiments, various changes in form and details may be made thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims. That is, although the present disclosure is applied to the marble game among the board games in the above-described embodiment, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. The present disclosure may be applied to a variety of board games that require a playing board.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A board game set comprising:

a playing board having a top face divided into a plurality of sections;

a building miniature having a groove defined in a bottom face thereof, wherein the building miniature is fixable to the board; and

a building miniature-fixing protrusion formed on the top face of the playing board, wherein the building miniature-fixing protrusion is constructed to be inserted into the groove defined the building miniature.

2. The board game set of claim 1, wherein the playing board includes:

a body having a rectangular box shape;

a transparent cover covering a top face of the body; and

a section-defining plate removably inserted between the body and the cover, wherein the section-defining plate has a top face divided into a plurality of sections.

3. The board game set of claim 2, wherein the building miniature-fixing protrusion is formed on the cover, wherein a slit is defined in the building miniature-fixing protrusion.

4. The board game set of claim 3, wherein the building miniature-fixing protrusion includes a plurality of building miniature-fixing protrusions spaced apart from each other, wherein a projection is formed on an inner face of each building miniature-fixing protrusion in the slit,

wherein the projection protrudes horizontally from the inner face of each building miniature-fixing protrusion, while each building miniature-fixing protrusion protrudes vertically from a top face of the cover.

5. The board game set of claim 4, wherein the projection is formed on one or the other of both facing-away inner faces of each building miniature-fixing protrusion in the slit.

6. The board game set of claim 5, wherein the projections are sequentially arranged in a staggered manner along the plurality of building miniature-fixing protrusions.