Game successively utilizing selectively positionable gear playing pieces varying in pitch radii

Claim 1

GAME APPARATUS HAVING AN COMBINATION, A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL PLAYING AND SUPPORT BOARD, HAVING A MULTIPLICITY OF VARIOUSLY AND PREDETERMINATELY SPACED GEAR-PIVOTING ELEMENTS, SAID ELEMENTS EXTENDING IN ROWS, SOME OF WHICH ARE DISPOSED IN PARALLEL RELATION TRANSVERSELY OF SAID BOARD AND SOME ROWS OF WHICH EXTEND PARALLEL BUT DIAGONALLY OF SAID BOARD, A SET OF REMOVABLY POSITIONABLE PLAYING GEARS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF GEARS WHICH HAVE DIFFERENT PITCH RADII, SAID PITCH RADII ALL CORRESPONDING TO THE SPACED RELATIONSHIP OF SOME PAIRS OF SAID GEAR-PIVOTING ELEMENTS IN EITHER SAID TRANSVERSE OR DIAGONAL ROWS, A "WINNER" GEAR ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN A PREDETERMINED POSITION ON SAID PLAYING BOARD, SAID BOARD HAVING A "STARTING" GEAR-PIVOTING ELEMENT AND "STARTING GEAR" DISPOSED IN REMOTE AND OPPOSED RELATION TO SAID "WINNER GEAR," AND THE OTHER AND MULTIPLICITY OF SPACED GEAR-PIVOTING ELEMENTS EXTENDING GENERALLY BETWEN SAID "WINNER"D GEAR AND SAID "STARTING" GEAR-PIVOTING ELEMENT, SAID REMOVABLY POSITIONABLE PLAYING GEARS BEING SELECTIVELY POSITIONABLE IN MESH WITH ONE OR MORE OF GEARS PREVIOUSLY POSITIONED ON SAID BOARD, SOMETIMES IN TRANSVERSE ROWS AND SOMETIMES IN DIAGONAL ROW RELATIONS, SAID "WINNER" GEAR HAVING AN INDICATOR ARM PROJECTING LATERALY THEREFROM, AND A COVER PLATE AFFIXED TO SAID BOARD FOR NORMALLY COVERING SAID INDICATOR ARM BUT FOR PERMITTING THE SAME TO SHOW WHEN SAID "WINNER" GEAR IS TURNED IN A PREDETERMINED MANNER.