US2168104A - Game - Google Patents

Description

Aug. 1, 1939.

J. PoLANco 2,168,104

GAME

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Y Joseph Polanco, New York, N. Y. v d vAppl'icanun october 15, 1937, serial No. 169,261

1 Claim.

young and yold,and which VWillwrequirev consider.- abile skill and strategy togbeplayed successfully.

g1 Another object of `the invention is'to provide an improved game in which the game board is divided into two different camps each defended by an army.

A further object of the invention isv to provide a game whichwill Ishow a real battle between two modern armieshaving the aid of airplane.V

Astill,furtherobjectof the inventionis to provide anirnprovedgame which can be `placed upon the market at a reasonable cost.

` With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel;construction,arrange ment and formation of parts as will be hereinafter/more:specifically described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specication, in which draw mg: Figure I is a planview of the game board. Figure II shows the special die used during playing. Only used inone of the two different ways this game can be played.

Figure III is a front View of one of the soldiers used in the game.

Figure IV is a perspective view of one of the airplane playing pieces employed.

Referring to the drawing in detail wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views;

The game board may be formed of cardboard or any other suitable material and has its end portion marked to define the camps I and 2 of opposing armies. These camps are located midway the width of the game board in opposed relation to each other and along their sides and outer ends are borders 3 and 4 which are preferably colored yellow although any desired color may be used. Spaces 5 and `Ii which have borders 'I and 8 are provided at opposite sides of the camp and constitute spaces in which dead opponents are to be placed when taken. The Yborders 'I and 8 will preferably be brown, but it is to be understood that they may be any color in contrast with the yellow borders 3 and \4. There has also been provided a brown border 9 extending entirely about margins of the playing board. Flying elds I and II having yellow borders I2 and I3 are marked upon the game board in advance of the spaces and 6 and within the spaces I0 and II are drawn airplanes I4 and I5, the

airplanes I4 being colored yellow and theairplanes I5 blue'in order that they may be readily distinguished from eachother as each army is tov deendits own iiying field and attempt to reach the opponents flying eld, The cockpits I4a and i5e of the airplanes arecolored redV and the trianglesl and I'I, which constitute entrances to theiiying fields arealso colored red, but it is toL be `understood that` the entrance triangles and the cockpits' may be of any desired color which will be in contrast to theyellow borders I2 and Ieandwthejyellow,andfblue airplanes I4 and I5. Midwaygbetween the companion ying elds and in advance of the camps are spaces I6 and I9 set off by yellow bcrders'Z and ZI and at opposite sides of these spaces are passways 22 and which are colored red and divided to' forma plurality of blocks 22a and23'e. These passways or runways 22 and 23 constitute lanes along which the game pieces 24 may move from the camps I and 2 onto the battle-field. The gaineV pieces are shaped to represent men, as shown in Figure 3,

and each player will have the same number of game pieces or soldiers. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, each player has twenty soldiers which are initially placed in the camps l and 2, the soldiers or game pieces of one player being yellow, and placed in the Vcamp i and the soldiers or game pieces of the other player being blue and placed in the camp 2. Each player has: six airplanes 25 and initially places three of them in each of his iiying fields IB or I I, the airplanes of the player having the camp l and the flying elds Il) being colored yellow and the' opposing airplanes which are placed in the flying eld II being colored blue. The space 25 which extends transversely across the board between the camps and flying ields of the opposing armies constitutes the battle-held. This battle-held is colored green so as to set it offv from the remainder of the board and it is divided into a plurality of blocks 21 which are arranged in rows extending transversely and longitudinally of the playing board.

When this game is played, the yellow soldiers or game pieces are placed in the camp l and the blue soldiers or game pieces placed in the camp 2. The yellow airplanes are placed in the ying field I!) and the blue airplanes upon the ying field II, The players may take turns and move their game pieces or soldiers in step by step movement along the block of the runways 22 and 23 and after a game piece has reached the battleeld it may be rnoved in step by step movement towards the opponents end of the board. A game piece or soldier 24 may only be moved forwardly or transversely of the board and not back towards its own camp. The object is to jump as many of the opponents game pieces as possible and also endeavor to reach the entrance to one of the cpponents flying fields without being jumped. Upon reaching the entrance I6 or l1 of the opponents lying eld, the game pieces may then be moved onto the flying eld and come to rest upon the cockpit ida or I5a of the airplane marked thereon and, when this is accomplished, the soldier becomes an aviator. The player who has succeeded in moving a game piece onto an opponents iiying field may move one of his airplanes from his flying leld through the entrance I6 or Il' and onto the battle-eld. An aviator may move not only forwardly and transversely of the battle-field but may also move back towards his own camp but must move in straight lines when moving from one block 21 to another. The aviator also has the privilege of moving more than one block in order to jump an opponent whereas a soldier may only move from one block to another instead of passing two or more blocks in order tojump an opponent. An aviator also has the privilege of jumping an opponent approaching the battle-field through one of the runways 22 or 23 whereas a soldier is not 'allowed to enter a runway after arriving upon the battleield. Instead of the game pieces being merely moved one block at a time as the players take their turn, the number of blocks to be moved may be controlled by chance. In order to do so, there has been provided a special dice for each player. One of the dice has been shown in Figure 2 and indicated by the numeral 28.` Referring to this figure, it will be seen that the dice has a single spot 29 upon four side faces, the other two faces of the dice which are in opposed relation to each other being provided with two spots 30. The dice is thrown and if the face presented upwardly has one spot a game piece or soldier will be moved one block, whereas, if the face of the dice presented uppermost has two spots, a game piece may be moved two spaces or if so desired two game pieces may be moved one space. The dice will only be used for controlling movements of the game pieces or soldiers 24 as the aviators represented by the airplanes 25 may be moved more than one block in a straight-away direction. When the game pieces or the aviators are jumped, they are placed in the spaces 5 and 6 provided for dead enemies and will remain there until the game is over. The player who succeeds in taking all of the opponents soldiers wins the game.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

In a game apparatus, a game board, end portions of said board being marked to provide opposing camps located midway the width of the board at opposite ends thereof and flying fields constituting promotion stations in corner portions of the board at opposite sides of the camps,

said ilying fields projecting forwardly beyond the camps and terminating in spaced relation to ends of the board to provide concentration areas at opposte sides of rear portions of said camps, space between the projecting portions of companion iiying elds being marked to provide intermediate areas in front of the camps and pathways leading from the camps at opposite sides of the intermediate areas and divided into blocks, the midsection of the board between opposing ying fields and pathways constituting a battle-eld extending the full width of the board and divided into blocks arranged in Yrows extending transversely of the board and longitudinally thereof, and said flying fields having -entrancesleading from opposed blocks adjacent opposite sides of the battleiield.

JOSEPH POLANCO.

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