Claims
- 1. A board game kit for use by a game player in handling game pieces, the board game kit comprising:a. a game board having four corners and a game board face for receiving game pieces thereon; b. a bag for removing the game pieces from the game board and holding the game pieces when they are not positioned upon the game board, the bag having i. a main body comprised of a flexible material; ii. an adjustable mouth integral with the main body, the mouth adjustable between a contracted opening and an expanded opening, the contracted opening dimensioned to an opening of sufficient size to allow entry of a human hand with little or no stretching of the elastic member, thereby allowing game board pieces to be retrieved from said bag, and the expanded opening being dimensioned to fit over and receive said game board therein with said face and game pieces thereon being inside said bag; iii. an elastic member disposed peripherally of the mouth for adjusting size variations of the mouth between the contracted opening when the elastic member is relaxed and the expanded opening when the elastic member is almost fully stretched.
- 2. The board game kit of claim 1 wherein the game board is dimensioned to about fifteen and a half inches by fifteen and a half inches.
- 3. The board game kit of claim 2 wherein the game board face includes a grid of plastic ribs forming seats for the game pieces.
- 4. The board game kit of claim 3 wherein the game pieces are tiles having letters printed thereon.
- 5. The board game kit of claim 1 further comprising a bag support with a top rim having a diameter such that the bag may be placed in the bag support with the mouth held open by the top rim, thereby allowing players to draw game pieces from the bag.
- 6. A method for collecting game pieces from a game board face and placing them into a container such that players may blindly draw the game pieces from the container, the method comprising the steps of:a. providing a game board and a drawing bag, the drawing bag having a main body comprised of a non-transparent flexible material and a mouth integral with the main body, the mouth dimensioned to fit over a face of the game board, the further comprising an elastic member disposed peripherally of the mouth of the bag, the elastic member maneuverable to vary the size of the mouth such that the mouth will open to cover the face of the game board when the elastic constricting member is stretched and constrict to an opening of sufficient size to allow entry of a human hand with little or no stretching of the elastic member when the elastic member is relaxed; b. stretching the elastic member to cause the mouth of the bag to cover the game board face; c. flipping the game board up-side-down such that the game pieces on the game board face fall into the bag: d. removing the mouth of the bag from the game board face and allowing the elastic member to constrict the mouth of the bag such that game pieces may be blindly drawn from the bag.
- 7. A method of utilizing game pieces during the play of a game, wherein the game pieces are drawn blindly by each player during game play and positioned upon the face of a game board, the method comprising the steps of:a. providing game pieces in a bag having a mouth and a mouth opening with a constricting means disposed peripherally to the mouth, the constricting means acting to increase or decrease the size of the mouth opening; b. drawing game pieces from the bag during game play; c. placing game pieces drawn from the bag on a game board during game play; and d. retrieving game pieces from the game board after game play by causing the constricting means to increase the size of the mouth opening and inserting the game board therethrough such that the bag substantially covers the game board, flipping the game board up-side-down such that game pieces on the game board fall into the bag, removing the mouth of the bag from the game board, and allowing the constricting means to decrease the size of the mouth opening.
- 8. The method of claim 7 further comprising the step after step b and before step b of placing the bag within a bag support having a top rim and an outer wall and folding the mouth over the top rim of the bag support such that the constricting means applies pressure to the outer wall of the support member.
- 9. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step after step c and before step d of removing the bag from the bag support.
- 10. The method of claim 9 further comprising the step of assembling the bag support after step a and before step b and before placing the bag within the bag support by joining two opposing ends of a rectangular plastic sheet to form a plastic sleeve.
- 11. The method of claim 10 further comprising the additional step of placing the bag in a game box for storage of the bag and game pieces within the bag, disassembling the support member and placing the support member in the game box.
- 12. The method of claim 7 further comprising the additional step after step d of pulling a portion of the constricting means away from the mouth, turning the pulled portion of the constricting means 180 degrees to form a loop, and flipping the loop around the mouth to further constrict the mouth.
- 13. The method of claim 12 wherein the act of flipping the loop around the mouth to further constrict the mouth allows the bag to serve as a storage device for the game pieces.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/369,785, filed Aug. 6, 1999, now abandoned which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/132,857, filed Aug. 11, 1998 now abandoned.
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