Claims
- 1. A board game with nesting pieces, comprising:
a playing board; said playing board forming a rectilinear grid of at least three rows of squares, at least three said squares per row; and a plurality of playing pieces divisible into a first set and a second set of equal number, said first set being visually distinguishable from said second set, said first and second sets each comprising at least a plurality of small pieces, a plurality of medium pieces, a plurality of large pieces, wherein said small pieces nest within said medium pieces, and said medium pieces nest within said large pieces.
- 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein there are three said rows, each said row having three said squares, for a total of nine said squares on said playing board formed into a rectilinear pattern having three columns.
- 3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said first set has two first-set small pieces, two first-set medium pieces, and two first-set large pieces, and said second set has two second-set small pieces, two second-set medium pieces, and two second-set large pieces.
- 4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein said first set has a first exterior color, and said second set has a second exterior color wherein said first exterior color is visually distinguishable from said second exterior color.
- 5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said first exterior color is light and said second exterior color is dark.
- 6. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein said pieces are hollow cylinders.
- 7. A method of playing a board game, comprising the steps of:
providing a playing board forming a rectilinear grid of at least three rows of squares, at least three said squares per row; providing a plurality of playing pieces divisible into a first set and a second set of equal number, said first set being visually distinguishable from said second set, said first and second sets each comprising a plurality of small pieces, a plurality of medium pieces, and a plurality of large pieces, wherein said small pieces nest within said medium pieces, and said medium pieces nest within said large pieces; and placing said pieces on said squares of said playing board one piece at a time, first one piece from said first set, then one piece from said second set, and thereby alternating until a continuous straight line of a predetermined number of pieces of one of said sets is formed on said playing board, wherein said small pieces may be placed on said squares only on empty squares, said medium pieces may be placed on said squares either on empty squares or on top of said small pieces, and said large pieces may be placed on said squares either on empty squares or on top of said medium pieces or said small pieces, said medium pieces or said small pieces.
- 8. The method of claim 7 wherein:
there are three said rows, each said row having three said squares, for a total of nine said squares on said playing board formed into a rectilinear pattern having three columns; and there are six pieces in said first set and six pieces in said second set.
- 9. The method of claim 8 wherein said first set has two first-set small pieces, two first-set medium pieces, and two first-set large pieces, said second set has two second-set small pieces, two second-set medium pieces, and two second-set large pieces, and said predetermined number is three.
- 10. The method of claim 9 further including the step of first arranging said first and said second sets into two stacks of three nested pieces per stack, and wherein said pieces may be placed on said squares directly from said stacks only by removing the largest remaining piece of a stack from the top thereof.
- 11. The method of claim 10 wherein when a said piece is placed on a said square, it may be taken from one of said stacks or it may be moved from a different square on said playing board onto which said piece had previously been placed.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present application claims the benefit of the filing date of U.S. Provisional Patent Application, Ser. No. 60/447,606, filed Feb. 14, 2003.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60447606 |
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