Peg and board game

Claim 1

A GAME OF SKILL COMPRISING, A GAME BOARD HAVING A TOP SURFACE PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF SEPARATE, SPACED INDIVIDUAL SOCKETS ARRANGED IN A PLURALITY OF SEPARATE, SPACED MUTUALLY INTERSECTING ROWS, INDICIA ON SAID SURFACE DIVIDING SAID TOP SURFACE INTO TWO SECTORS EACH HAVING AN EQUAL NUMBER OF SAID SOCKETS, THE SOCKETS IN EACH SECTOR BEING ARRANGED TOTALLY WITHIN A RESPECTIVE SECTOR AND ALL THE SOCKETS OF ONE SECTOR BEING DESIGNATED BY LIKE INDICIA CORRESPONDING TO SAID ONE SECTOR AND ALL THE SOCKETS OF THE OTHER SECTOR BEING DESIGNATED BY LIKE INDICIA CORRESPONDING TO THE OTHER SECTOR DIFFERING FROM SAID ONE SECTOR, A PLURALITY OF ALIKE, INVERTIBLE PEGS EACH POSITIONABLE IN SAID SOCKETS AND EACH HAVING INDICIA THEREON CORRESPONDING RESPECTIVELY TO SAID TWO SECTORS AND TO TWO MUTUALLY INVERTED PLAYING POSITIONS OF SAID PEGS, SAID PEGS BEING EQUAL IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF SOCKETS IN ONE OF SAID SECTORS, EACH OF SAID PEGS HAVING OPPOSITE END PORTIONS INSERTABLE INTO SAID SOCKETS INDIVIDUALLY POSITIONABLE INITIALLY IN ONE OF SAID SECTORS WITH THE INDICIA THEREON CORRESPONDING TO A COMMON PLAYING UPSTANDING POSITION AND TO THE SECTOR IN WHICH THE PEGS ARE INITIALLY DISPOSED, SAID PEGS HAVING AN AXIAL LENGTH SUFFICIENT FOR EXTENDING OUT OF SAID SOCKETS FOR PERMITTING GRASPING THEREOF WHILE IN A SOCKET AND WITH AT LEAST ONE INDICIUM EXTENDING OUTWARDLY OF A SOCKET INDICATING A PLAYING POSITION THE INDIVIDUAL PEGS ARE IN, SAID ROWS OF SOCKETS COMPRISING TWO GROUPS OF PARALLEL ROWS IN WHICH THE ROWS OF ONE GROUP INTERESECT THE ROWS OF THE OTHER GROUP NORMAL TO EACH OTHER, THE PARALLEL ROWS OF ONE GROUP HAVING AN EVEN NUMBER OF SOCKETS AND THE ROWS OF SAID OTHER GROUP HAVING AN ODD NUMBER OF SOCKETS, THE ROW HAVING THE LARGEST ODD NUMBER OF SOCKETS IN ONE SECTOR BEING ADJACENT TO AND PARALLEL TO A ROW OF THE LARGES ODD NUMBER OF SOCKETS IN THE OTHER SECTOR, AND THE INDICIA DIVIDING SAID BOARD BETWEEN SAID ROWS HAVING THE LARGEST ODD NUMBER OF SOCKETS, WHEREBY IN PLAYING SAID PEGS ARE MOVABLE INDIVIDUALLY IN A STRAIGHT LINE OVER AN ADJACENT PEG FROM A SOCKET INTO AN EMPTY SOCKET AND POSITIONABLE IN AN INVERTED POSITION ONLY FROM THE POSITIONS FROM WHICH THE SUCCESSIVE MOVES ARE MADE AND ALL MOVABLE INDIVIDUALLY FROM THE SECTOR IN WHICH THEY ARE ALL INITIALLY DISPOSED TO THE OTHER SECTOR WITH THE INDICIA ON SAID PEGS POSITIONED TO CORRESPOND TO THE INDICIA OF AN INVERTED POSITION FROM THE POSITION IN WHICH SAID PEGS WERE INITIALLY DISPOSED THEREBY TO CORRESPOND TO SAID OTHER SECTOR TO WHICH THE PEGS ARE ALL MOVED.