Abstract An amusement device wherein a generally flat base is provided defining a playing area having a plurality of playing positions arranged in a desired pattern and over which playing pieces are manipulated arbitrarily from position to position. The base preferably has the configuration of a house with rooms defined thereon and with the playing positions arranged over the rooms so that a player attempts to proceed from room to room through the house. A mechanism is provided which will produce a ringing sound in response to a playing piece being placed at certain conditioned ones of the playing positions. Those playing positions which will effect the ringing sound in response to the playing piece being placed thereon are randomly conditioned and preferably unknown to the players of the game. A simulated phone is defined in each room whereby a player who has effected the ringing sound by placing his playing piece in a room must move to the phone to stop the ringing sound, either losing or gaining ground in his attempt to proceed through the house. A sub-base is provided below the base and the top of the sub-base and the underside of the base are provided with electrically conductive material. Freely movable disc-like contact members which effect said random conditioning are held between the base and sub-base and complete a circuit when attracted by a magnet contained in a playing piece. The areas between the base and sub-base are partitioned into sub-areas generally corresponding to the rooms defined on the base. Different playing positions in each of the rooms defined on the base may be activated by shaking the amusement device to position the contacts below different playing positions.
Inventors
👤 J Breslow
👤 B Meyer
👤 M Glass
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-11-08 08:44
CPC Classifications
A; A63; A63F; A63F3/00; A63F3/00643
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
148 words
An amusement device including, in combination, a base which simulates a house with rooms and which defines a playing area with a plurality of playing positions thereon in a pattern or path from room to room through the house, means defining an alarm area in at least some of the rooms on said path, at least one playing piece movable relative to said base between and onto said playing positions in a predetermined or chance game plan, means for random conditioning of some but not all of said playing positions to activate associated apparatus when occupied by a playing piece; and a sound-producing apparatus associated with said conditioned playing positions to produce a ringing sound when said playing piece is positioned on one of the conditioned playing positions whereby a player may be required to move his playing piece to an alarm area on effecting the ringing sound.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
148 words
An amusement device including, in combination, a base which simulates a house with rooms and which defines a playing area with a plurality of playing positions thereon in a pattern or path from room to room through the house, means defining an alarm area in at least some of the rooms on said path, at least one playing piece movable relative to said base between and onto said playing positions in a predetermined or chance game plan, means for random conditioning of some but not all of said playing positions to activate associated apparatus when occupied by a playing piece; and a sound-producing apparatus associated with said conditioned playing positions to produce a ringing sound when said playing piece is positioned on one of the conditioned playing positions whereby a player may be required to move his playing piece to an alarm area on effecting the ringing sound.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
147 words
An amusement device which includes a base which defines a playing area having a plurality of playing positions in a pattern or path along which playing pieces are moved, said base having a false bottom defined at least partially by a pair of spaced horizontal conductive plates; a plurality of untethered conductive pieces loosely supported for free movement between said plates and beneath said playing positions, playing pieces each having a magnetic portion whereby when a playIng piece overlies one of the conductive pieces it causes contact between the conductive piece and said conductive plates and closes a circuit operating a sound-reproducing apparatus, and barrier means between said conductive plates to loosely confine the movement of said otherwise freely movable conductive pieces to said sub-areas to prevent said conductive pieces from being gathered in an undesirably large number under only a single portion of said playing area.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
147 words
An amusement device which includes a base which defines a playing area having a plurality of playing positions in a pattern or path along which playing pieces are moved, said base having a false bottom defined at least partially by a pair of spaced horizontal conductive plates; a plurality of untethered conductive pieces loosely supported for free movement between said plates and beneath said playing positions, playing pieces each having a magnetic portion whereby when a playIng piece overlies one of the conductive pieces it causes contact between the conductive piece and said conductive plates and closes a circuit operating a sound-reproducing apparatus, and barrier means between said conductive plates to loosely confine the movement of said otherwise freely movable conductive pieces to said sub-areas to prevent said conductive pieces from being gathered in an undesirably large number under only a single portion of said playing area.