Matching game apparatus

Claim 2

A game apparatus for one or more players comprising a game board having a playing surface defined by a plurality of distinctive areas thereon, a plurality of objects having distinctive characteristics which correspond to said distinctive areas of the game board, means for randomly distributing said objects on said game board whereby the players of the game test their relative performances in determining which of the objects rest on areas of the game board that have a particular relationship between the distinctive characteristics thereof and the distinctive characteristics of the objects, and a plurality of scoring members having distinctive characteristics corresponding to the distinctive characteristics of the objects for awarding to players who have determined and removed the greatest number of objects from the game board that have the particular relationship with the areas of the game board on which they rest, the first player obtaining a selected combination of distinctive scoring members being declared the winner of the game, said scoring members including selected letters of the alphabet, the selected combination of said scoring members being sufficient to spell a predetermined word.

Claim 3

The apparatus defined in claim 3 wherein said distinctive members are formed in the shapes of letters of the alphabet.

Claim 4

A game apparatus for one or more players comprising a game board having a playing surface defined by a plurality of distinctive areas thereon, said distinctive surface areas including a plurality of several different kinds of distinctive areas arranged and distributed to form the playing surface, a plurality of different kinds of objects having distinctive characteristics which correspond to and match respective ones of the different kinds of said distinctive areas of the game board, said objects during playing of the game being randomly distributed on said game board whereby the players of the game test their relative performances by gathering up as many of the objects as possible that rest on areas of the game board that have a particular matching relationship with the distinctive characteristics of the objects, and timer means for determining the play period during which the relative performances of the players are tested.

Claim 5

A game apparatus for testing the recognition abilities and manual dexterity of one or more players including a game board surface having a central portion and another portion thereabout, said other portion being defined by a plurally of smaller areas including a plurality of each of several distinctively different types of areas which are identified by having different distinctive, easily recognizeable characteristics, a plurality of multi-surfaced playing pieces including pieces which have surfaces with characteristics that correspond to respective characteristics of the different types of smaller areas, means to randomly distribute said playing pieces on said other game board surface so that players can identify and remove playing pieces that have surfaces thereof touching ones of said smaller areas that have corresponding identifying characteristics, timer means for establishing playing periods for the game, and a plurality of scoring members identified respectively by means which correspond to the different distinctive characteristics of the playing pieces for awarding to players removing the most playing pieces of each of said distinctive characteristics during each playing period.