Board game apparatus

Claim 2

A game board having first and second rotatable members adapted to be indexed in increments of rotation, said second member having operating means responsive to rotation thereof, said game board having means associated with said first member providing a number station, said first member having a series of numbers movable past said number station upon rotation of said first member, and incomplete command indicia for governing the indexing of said second member, said command indicia being provided on said game board and positioned adjacent said number station so as to be completed by the number displayed thereat.

Claim 3

The structure defined in claim 1, wherein said first member has operating means responsive to rotation thereof, said game board has means associated with said second member providing a number station, said second member having a series of numbers movable past said second-mentioned number station upon rotation of said second member, and incomplete command indicia for governing the indexing of said first member, said command indicia being provided on said game board and positioned adjacent said second-mentioned number station so as to be completed by the number displayed thereat.

Claim 4

A game board having an upper surface, a rotatable member beneath said upper surface having slots adapted to receive game tokens representing buried treasure, for example, and a plurality of holes in said upper surface, certain holes registering with certain slots in a predetermined rotative position of said rotatable member to permit said tokens to be inserted into or removed from said slots through said holes, other holes registering with other slots in another rotative position of said rotatable member to permit said tokens to be inserted and removed as aforesaid, and in still another rotative position of said rotatable member, none of said holes and slots being in register.

Claim 5

A game board having an upper surface, a rotatable member beneath said upper surface having slots adapted to receive game tokens representing buried treasure, for example, and a plurality of holes in said upper surface, certain holes registering with certain slots in a predetermined rotative position of said rotatable member to permit said tokens to be inserted into or removed from said slots through said holes, other holes registering with other slots in another rotative position of said rotatable member to permit said tokens to be inserted and removed as aforesaid, and in still another rotative position of said rotatable member, none of said holes and slots being in register.

Claim 6

The structure defined in claim 3, wherein said holes are formed in a pictorial representation of a celestial body on said upper surface, and tokens simulating space vehicles, said second mentioned tokens being magnetically attracted to said first mentioned tokens.

Claim 7

A game board having a plurality of space units spaced apart from one another over a game course, a token representing a game piece movable from space unit to space unit over said course, some of said space units within said course being arranged in a closed loop, a second token representing a space station and with which said first-mentioned token is adapted to be linked, means for orbiting said second token from space unit to space unit within said closed loop, and means for releasably linking said first-mentioned token to said second token so that said first-mentioned token will orbit with said second token from space unit to space unit within said closed loop, whereby said second token becomes in effect a moving space unit to vary the length of the course traversed by said first-mentioned token.

Claim 8

A game board having a plurality of space units spaced apart from one another over a game course, a token representing a game piece movable from space unit to space unit over said course, some of said space units within said course being arranged in a closed loop, a second token representing a space station and with which said first-mentioned token is adapted to be linked, means for orbiting said second token from space unit to space unit within said closed loop, and means for releasably linking said first-mentioned token to said second token so that said first-mentioned token will orbit with said second token from space unit to space unit within said closed loop, whereby said second token becomes in effect a moving space unit to vary the length of the course traversed by said first-mentioned token.

Claim 9

The structure defined in claim 5, said closed loop being circular, said orbiting means comprising a rotatable member beneath said game course rotatable on an axis coinciding with the center of said closed loop, said orbiting means having a slug to which said second-mentioned token is magnetically attracted and movable along the path of and beneath said closed loop upon rotation of said rotatable member.

Claim 10

The structure defined in claim 6, including means for indexing said rotatable member angular distances corresponding to the angular distance between the space units.

Claim 11

A game board having an upper surface, a representation of a celestial body on said upper surface, a member rotatable on an axis coinciding with the center of said body and having beneath said upper surface a series of angularly spaced slugs arranged in a circle concentric with the axis of rotation of said member and having a radius greater than the radius of said body, tokens movable over said upper surface and magnetically attracted to said slugs so as to move in an orbit around said body upon rotation of said rotatable member, a representation of a second celestial body on said upper surface spaced from said first-mentioned body, a second member rotatable on an axis coinciding with the center of the second body and having beneath said upper surface a second series of angularly spaced slugs arranged in a circle concentric with the axis of rotation of said second member and having a radius greater than the radius of said second body, second tokens movable over said upper surface and magnetically attracted to the slugs in the second series so as to move in an orbit around said second body upon rotation of said second rotatable member, said board having on its upper surface means in each orbit representing space units spaced equal distances from one another, means representing a line of spaced apart space units connecting said orbits, and means for indexing each rotatable member increments of rotation equal to the spacing between the space units in the associated orbit.

Claim 12

A game board having an upper surface, a representation of a celestial body on said upper surface, a member rotatable on an axis coinciding with the center of said body and having beneath said upper surface a series of angularly spaced slugs arranged in a circle concentric with the axis of rotation of said member and having a radius greater than the radius of said body, tokens movable over said upper surface and magnetically attracted to said slugs so as to move in an orbit around said body upon rotation of said rotatable member, a representation of a second celestial body on said upper surface spaced from said first-mentioned body, a second member rotatable on an axis coinciding with the center of the second body and having beneath said upper surface a second series of angularly spaced slugs arranged in a circle concentric with the axis of rotation of said second member and having a radius greater than the radius of said second body, second tokens movable over said upper surface and magnetically attracted to the slugs in the second series so as to move in an orbit around said second body upon rotation of said second rotatable member, said board having on its upper surface means in each orbit representing space units spaced equal distances from one another, means representing a line of spaced apart space units connecting said orbits, and means for indexing each rotatable member increments of rotation equal to the spacing between the space units in the associated orbit.

Claim 13

A game board having an upper surface, a representation of a celestial body on said upper surface, a member rotatable on an axis coinciding with the center of the body and having beneath said upper surface a series of angularly spaced slugs arranged in a circle concentric with the axis of rotation of said member and having a radius greater than the radius of said body, tokens movAble over said upper surface and magnetically attracted to said slugs so as to move in an orbit around said body upon rotation of said rotatable member, said board having on its upper surface means in said orbit representing space units spaced equal distances from one another, means for indexing said rotatable member increments of rotation equal to the spacing between said space units, said indexing means comprising finger holes formed in said rotatable member in a circle adjacent the periphery thereof, the angular distance between said holes corresponding to the angular distance between said space units, and a window in said board overlying the circle of holes and of a length approximating the distance between two adjacent holes.

Claim 14

A game board having an upper surface, a representation of a celestial body on said upper surface, a member rotatable on an axis coinciding with the center of the body and having beneath said upper surface a series of angularly spaced slugs arranged in a circle concentric with the axis of rotation of said member and having a radius greater than the radius of said body, tokens movAble over said upper surface and magnetically attracted to said slugs so as to move in an orbit around said body upon rotation of said rotatable member, said board having on its upper surface means in said orbit representing space units spaced equal distances from one another, means for indexing said rotatable member increments of rotation equal to the spacing between said space units, said indexing means comprising finger holes formed in said rotatable member in a circle adjacent the periphery thereof, the angular distance between said holes corresponding to the angular distance between said space units, and a window in said board overlying the circle of holes and of a length approximating the distance between two adjacent holes.