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  Challenge magnetic gameUSPTO Application #: 20070187892Title: Challenge magnetic game Abstract: The magnetic game comprises a game board (10) provided with a plurality of anchorage points (11), for the selective positioning of a plurality of magnetically anchorable game members (14, 14′, 15); the game members comprise s a first set of elongated bar-shaped members (14, 14′), and a second set of ball-shaped members (15), that can be assembled and moved on the board (10) in the form of an assembly defining an articulated body provided by disposition of bar and ball shaped members (14, 15); the elongated bar members (14) may be variously magnetically engaged to the ball members (15) and to the anchorage to points (11) of the game board (10) to change the shape and move the articulated body assembly. (end of abstract) Agent: Young & Thompson - Arlington, VA, US Inventor: Claudio Vicentelli USPTO Applicaton #: 20070187892 - Class: 273239000 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Amusement Devices: Games, Board Games, Pieces, Or Boards Therefor, Magnetic The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070187892. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
BACKGROUND INVENTION [0001] This invention refers to a magnetic game designed to be played by two or more challengers, comprising a game board and a plurality of game members magnetically and selectively anchorable to one another and to the game board in correspondence with spaced apart anchoring points. STATE OF THE ART [0002] Well known magnetic games, designed to allow the construction of reticular or grid structures, substantially comprise a set of elongated or bar shaped members, and a set of ball members which are magnetically connectable to the bar members according to any planar or spatial configuration or disposition; such magnetic games are known for example from WO-A-99/60583, DE-A-39 10 304 and U.S. Pat. No. 2,970,388. [0003] Even though they allow the construction of reticular or grid structures of various shapes and sizes, these games however have a specific use, which is an end in itself. [0004] None of these documents describes or suggests a different use of said magnetically anchorable members for other types of games, for example for games suitable for carrying out competitions between two or more players or challengers, in a way comparable to the conventional games of checkers and chess, or other similar games. OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION [0005] Therefore, the main object of this invention is to provide a magnetic game allowing to carry out competitive actions between two or more challengers, whereby it is possible to use in a new and different way certain magnetically anchorable members of known games, shown for example in the aforementioned documents. [0006] A further object of this invention is to provide a magnetic game of the abovementioned kind, which is extremely varied and stimulating in a competition, which can be played according to specific schemes and rules, and which at the same time is easy to play. [0007] A further object of this invention is to provide a magnetic game, as mentioned above, which is composed of a few base pieces, of limited cost. [0008] A still further object is to provide a magnetic game as defined above, by which it is possible to adopt different game strategies and develop the skills of the players, stimulating their logical reasoning during the competition, and presenting different difficulty degrees in relation to possible different ways of playing the game. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [0009] The above can be achieved by means of a magnetic game according to claim 1. [0010] More particularly, according to the invention a magnetic game has been provided, said magnetic game including a number of bar-shaped and ball-shaped, magnetically anchorable game members, characterised by comprising: [0011] a magnetic game board having a playing surface and a plurality of magnetic anchorage points spaced apart on said playing surface; [0012] a first set of bar shaped members and a second set of ball shaped members; [0013] said bar shaped members and said ball shaped members being conformed and magnetically anchorable to each other to construct at least a first and a second articulated body assembly; [0014] each of said bar members of the articulated body assemblies being selectively engageable to a ball member of the same body assembly and/or to an anchorage point of the playing surface to change the shape and to move each of said articulated body assemblies on the game board. [0015] The anchoring points may be differently arranged and disposed at a constant pitch or pitches of pre-established values, on the playing surface of the game board, depending on the requirements. [0016] The game board, the elongated or bar shaped members and ball shaped members which make up the game, can be variously composed; for example the game board can be composed of a metal panel in magnetically conductive metal material, such as a sheet of plastic material comprising an iron powder filler, or can be composed of a reticular metal structure shaped in such a way to provide anchoring areas in correspondence of the various anchorage points for the magnetic bar members of the game. [0017] As an alternative to the use of a simple magnetic metal sheet, or a reticular magnetic structure, the game board can have a layered structure or can comprise magnets or ferromagnetic inserts in correspondence with the various anchorage points. [0018] In turn, the game members, both in the shape of balls and bars, can be appropriately magnetised that is to say they can comprise or be composed of permanent magnets, or can be composed of simple ferromagnetic pieces. [0019] Moreover, the playing surface of the game board can be divided into several playing areas or sectors according to requirements, for example by means of graphic signs or different colours, or by other suitable means. [0020] The anchorage points for the game members on the game board, can be differently disposed in correspondence with the intersection points of any reticular design having polygonal meshes, preferably but not exclusively square meshes, or along a reticular design composed of a plurality of circles concentrically or differently arranged on the playing surface of the game board; regardless of the shape of the reticular design, the length of the pitch or pitches existing between at least part of the anchorage points may be equivalent to the sum of the diameter of the ball shaped members and of the axial length of the elongated bar shaped members, measured along their longitudinal axis, or more in general equivalent to the space between the centres of two adjacent ball members between which a bar member is disposed in the construction and movement of the articulated body assemblies. Continue reading... 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