WO2005023387B1 - Interactive board game - Google Patents

Interactive board game

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Publication number
WO2005023387B1
WO2005023387B1 PCT/GB2004/003740 GB2004003740W WO2005023387B1 WO 2005023387 B1 WO2005023387 B1 WO 2005023387B1 GB 2004003740 W GB2004003740 W GB 2004003740W WO 2005023387 B1 WO2005023387 B1 WO 2005023387B1
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WIPO (PCT)
Prior art keywords
board
pattern
playing
game
playing piece
Prior art date
Application number
PCT/GB2004/003740
Other languages
French (fr)
Other versions
WO2005023387A1 (en
Inventor
Svetlana Zhitomirskaya
Original Assignee
Alterix Ltd
Svetlana Zhitomirskaya
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Alterix Ltd, Svetlana Zhitomirskaya filed Critical Alterix Ltd
Priority to DE112004001419T priority Critical patent/DE112004001419T5/en
Publication of WO2005023387A1 publication Critical patent/WO2005023387A1/en
Publication of WO2005023387B1 publication Critical patent/WO2005023387B1/en
Priority to US11/362,906 priority patent/US20060138725A1/en

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Classifications

    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/00694—Magnetic board games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/00173—Characteristics of game boards, alone or in relation to supporting structures or playing piece
    • A63F3/00261—Details of game boards, e.g. rotatable, slidable or replaceable parts, modular game boards, vertical game boards
    • A63F2003/0034—Details of game boards, e.g. rotatable, slidable or replaceable parts, modular game boards, vertical game boards with a replaceable part of the playing surface
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/00173—Characteristics of game boards, alone or in relation to supporting structures or playing piece
    • A63F3/00261—Details of game boards, e.g. rotatable, slidable or replaceable parts, modular game boards, vertical game boards
    • A63F2003/00416—Details of game boards, e.g. rotatable, slidable or replaceable parts, modular game boards, vertical game boards with means for hiding a part of the playing field
    • A63F2003/00432—Details of game boards, e.g. rotatable, slidable or replaceable parts, modular game boards, vertical game boards with means for hiding a part of the playing field covering a part of the playing field
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/22—Accessories; Details
    • A63F7/36—Constructional details not covered by groups A63F7/24 - A63F7/34, i.e. constructional details of rolling boards, rims or play tables, e.g. frame, game boards, guide tracks
    • A63F7/40—Balls or other moving playing bodies, e.g. pinballs or discs used instead of balls
    • A63F2007/4068—Sliding play elements, e.g. discs or bodies with a low coefficient of friction
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F11/00—Game accessories of general use, e.g. score counters, boxes
    • A63F11/0074—Game concepts, rules or strategies
    • A63F2011/0079—Game concepts, rules or strategies keeping something hidden or invisible
    • A63F2011/0081—"Memory"-type games, e.g. finding the corresponding hidden element

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Toys (AREA)
  • Pinball Game Machines (AREA)

Abstract

A pattern made from a magnetizable material (1) is placed below a board. A playing piece (6) contains a magnet (4), which interacts with the magnetic material (1). If placed on special fields on the board, the playing piece slides away and stops (7) near the centre of another field on the board. The special fields are predetermined by the hidden magnetic pattern. The movement of the playing piece along the surface of the board of the board game comes as a surprise until the player memorizes all possible configurations of special fields for a fixed magnetic pattern. The pattern made from the magnetizable material can be varied before the beginning of each game. The disruption of the game caused by the movement of the playing piece to another field of the board of the board game introduces an extra degree of chance to the game of skill.

Claims

AMENDED CLAIMS [received by the International Bureau on 24 February 2005 (24.02.05); original claims 1-7 replaced by new claims 1-7 (2 pages)]I claim:
1. An apparatus for playing a game comprising: a piecewise-flat or piecewise-smooth game board having two surfaces; a piecewise-flat or piecewise-smooth pattern made from magnetizable materials, said pattern is placed below one of the surfaces of said board as a separable or an integrated component; said pattern further comprising plurality of areas partially free from the magnetizable materials and plurality of elongated convergent protrusions made from the magnetizable materials; said protrusions are directed inwards of at least some said areas which are partially free from the magnetizable materials; a magnet integrated inside a playing piece, said playing piece is placed during a game on the other surface of said board; said surface of the board is served as a playing surface of said game apparatus; whereby a variation of the geometry of said pattern along the surface of said board and magnetic interaction between the magnetizable materials of said pattern and said magnet integrated inside said playing piece provide a means for enforcing a sliding movement of said playing piece along the surface of said board and a means for defining the direction for said sliding movement.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising said board with plurality of fields graphically defined on the playing surface of said board; wherein said elongated convergent protrusions made from magnetizable materials have a triangular-like shape; the vertex of said protrusion is located inside one of the fields of the playing surface, the base of said protrusion is located inside an adjacent field of the playing surface.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising plurality of playing pieces with magnets integrated inside said playing pieces whereby a magnetic field generated by an immediately adjacent playing piece provides a means for affecting the preferable direction for said sliding movement of said playing piece.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising an additional means for supporting at least the part of said board at an angle to the horizontal; said angle is adjusted so as to permit the sliding movement of the playing piece subjected to the force of gravity and to stop said sliding movement if the continuous magnetizable material is placed below the surface of the board; the in-plane gravity force provides an additional means for enforcing the sliding movement of said playing piece placed upon areas partially free from the magnetizable materials and an additional means for defining the direction of said sliding movement.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said pattern is further made by a method selected from a group consisting of punching plurality of specially shaped holes in a continuous sheet of magnetizable material and overlaying separate pieces made from magnetizable materials on a non-magnetizable substrate.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said pattern is further made from a magnetizable material such as silicon steel.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said pattern made from the magnetizable materials is further reversibly separable from the apparatus and assembled from one or several parts, each part having two surfaces and several sides; the pattern can be reassembled before the beginning of each game by using a combination of changing the location of said parts, their rotation and flipping.
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PCT/GB2004/003740 2003-09-03 2004-09-02 Interactive board game WO2005023387A1 (en)

Priority Applications (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DE112004001419T DE112004001419T5 (en) 2003-09-03 2004-09-02 Interactive board game
US11/362,906 US20060138725A1 (en) 2003-09-03 2006-02-28 Interactive board game

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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GB0320611.7 2003-09-03
GBGB0320611.7A GB0320611D0 (en) 2003-09-03 2003-09-03 Interactive board game

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US11/362,906 Continuation US20060138725A1 (en) 2003-09-03 2006-02-28 Interactive board game

Publications (2)

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WO2005023387B1 true WO2005023387B1 (en) 2005-04-21

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GB2405597B (en) 2005-07-27
GB0419431D0 (en) 2004-10-06
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