Patent · US Expired

Board game having rock, scissors, paper type theme

US4488727A · kind A · utility

18Cited by
3References
8Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJan 7, 1983
Grant dateDec 18, 1984
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 7, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63F3/00
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

Game apparatus comprises a game board together with a plurality of playing pieces each coded to indicate its attribute and value. Three playing pieces of different attributes and different values are stacked to comprise a playing unit. Two players compare the attributes and values of the bottom-most piece of their playing units successively in a number of plays in order to determine the outcome of the game. The game comprises three different groups of attributes having strengths that allow a first group to be stronger than a second, the second group to be stronger than a thrid and the third group to be stronger than the first. In addition, each of the groups of attributes contains three hierarchically ranked groups of different values.

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