Patent · US Expired

Board game

US4079941A · kind A · utility

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4Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 10, 1976
Grant dateMar 21, 1978
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 10, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63F3/02
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A board game called "Airborne" includes a game board having an upper surface, wherein a square pattern of 64 boxes is contained on the upper surface. The latticework of upraised strips on the said game board form the perimeter of each box or guide-line square, wherein the individual forms can be placed. The said individual forms, once placed, so as to cover the upper surface of the game board, form the total playing surface of different-sized square and rectangle forms. Innumerable different playing surfaces or patterns can be created as a result of the individual forms being juxtaposed and then some or all of the aforesaid forms can be removed and replaced by different forms and/or some or all of the forms can be removed and replaced by the same forms in different juxtaposition. Two sets of eight movable playing units are contained on and move on the playing surface of square and rectangle forms, wherein the movable units engage and capture each other. All eight units on one end of the game board are white in color and all eight units on the opposite end of the game board are black in color; all sixteen movable units are known as ground units. A ground unit that succeeds in crossi…

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