Rotatable board game with magnetically affected playing pieces
US4079945A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 29, 1976 |
| Grant date | Mar 21, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 29, 1996 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA63F2250/482
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A children's game is provided in which plastic animals, such as turtles, are used as playing pieces and race along the track of a game board, advancing a given number of spaces on the basis of the spinning of a dial. The game board, however, is round and rotatable and has a base with randomly positioned magnets under the spaces on the board. The playing pieces also include magnets which are affected when they are on spaces over the random magnets. In particular, the playing piece is designed so that the animal's head drops when over a magnet, so it "falls asleep." The animal can then be "awakened" by rotating the board the equivalent of one space and so removing it from the magnet. In doing so, however, another player's piece may be moved over a magnet and similarly "fall asleep".
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