Board game apparatus

Claim 1

An electrically-operated game comprising: a. a gameboard divided into first and second playing sections, b. a row of double-pole, double-throw switches and a like series of light bulbs in said first section, which bulbs when energized emit light in a distinctive color, c. an equal row of double-pole, double-throw switches and a like series of light bulbs in the second section, which bulbs when energized emit light in another color, d. a power source, and e. a circuit connecting said source through said switches to said bulbs to effect selective activation thereof, said circuit being arranged to cause all of the lights in both series thereof to be off when the switches in said sections are either all up or down, and to cause a pair of bulbs to go on, one in the first section and the other in the second section, when all but one of the switches are either up or down, the relationship of the bulb pairs to the switches in the two sections being such that while no two pairs are identical, one of the bulbs in each pair is common to one of the bulbs in another pair, whereby a switching action which activates a pair including a bulb already turned on by reason of a previous switching action, will cause that bulb to turn off.