Crossword puzzle educational game
US4625971A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 28, 1984 |
| Grant date | Dec 2, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 28, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA63F2003/0428
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
An educational game requiring skills in both language and scoring ability involving correlating certain zones on a playing surface with scoring opportunities. A game board is formed from moldable material having first and second marginal borders provided with a plurality of pockets adapted to receive therewithin letter tiles having diverse colors on opposed sides correlatable to letters of the alphabet printed as indicia on the game board itself. Inwardly disposed therefrom is a four-sided frame having pairs of spaced opposed parallel vertical and horizontal legs defining a rectangular frame provided with numerical and alphabetical correlatives oriented to assist in deployment of a plurality of segments within the frame. Immediately within the frame itself a plurality of segments formed by N.times.N arrays define a peripheral playing surface within which a central major playing segment is disposed having a 3N.times.3N array. Orientation of all of the segments provides varied and diverse games since indicia are provided on each of the segments in the form of darkened squares, crosses, diamonds, and lightened squares of two colors allowing different scoring opportunities.
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