US4171816A
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Grammar or language game apparatus
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1977-08-25
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Granted: 1979-10-23
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Expires: 1997-08-25
Abstract
Abstract An educational and entertaining game apparatus is provided which teaches, tests, and rewards the players' knowledge of grammatical or language concepts and facts such as parts of speech, synonyms, vocabulary, sentence types, punctuation, and verb tenses, while simultaneously providing entertainment for the players. The players match an example of a grammatical or language category with a grammatical or language category selected by chance and accumulate matches to gain points. Some of the matches entitle the players to obtain bonus points calculated by a throw of dice having syllables or words on their faces.
Inventors
- 👤 Gene C. Hunt
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 05:38
CPC Classifications
A; A63; A63F; A63F1/00; A63F1/06; A63F1/10; A63F3/00; A63F3/04
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
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A game apparatus, comprising: a plurality of strips having two faces, one of said faces being a front face having thereon a word or combination of words exemplifying a language category, the other face being a rear face having a word or words identifying the language category exemplified on said front face; a game board having a plurality of spaces oriented in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns for receiving and accumulating said strips according to each of said language categories, certain preselected ones of said spaces on the game board having a designation therein for rewarding bonus points; an indicator means for random selection of any one of said language categories; and dice, each of which has words or syllables on its face for determining by change an amount of bonus points to be rewarded upon receiving and accumulating one of said strips upon one of said certain preselected spaces of said game board.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
158 words
A game apparatus, comprising: a plurality of strips having two faces, one of said faces being a front face having thereon a word or combination of words exemplifying a language category, the other face being a rear face having a word or words identifying the language category exemplified on said front face; a game board having a plurality of spaces oriented in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns for receiving and accumulating said strips according to each of said language categories, certain preselected ones of said spaces on the game board having a designation therein for rewarding bonus points; an indicator means for random selection of any one of said language categories; and dice, each of which has words or syllables on its face for determining by change an amount of bonus points to be rewarded upon receiving and accumulating one of said strips upon one of said certain preselected spaces of said game board.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
46 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the language categories are punctuation marks, and the indicator means have a plurality of pointers which, at any one position of the pointers with respect to total designating surface of the indicator means, total all of the punctuation mark categories.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
25 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said indicator means matches a readable representative of one of said language categories with a number designating a player.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
32 words
The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an inclined tray having support means for holding said strips and for panoptically displaying said front side without displaying said rear side of each strip.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
27 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of said dice have a syllable on two faces and have a different language category word on the remaining faces.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
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The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said language categories are parts of speech.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
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The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said language categories are the tenses of verbs.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
14 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the language categories are transitory words or phrases.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
19 words
The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the language categories are synonyms or foreign language equivalents of preselected key words.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
32 words
The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an inclined tray having support means for holding said strips and for panoptically displaying said front side without displaying said rear side of each strip.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
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The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the language categories are types of sentences and portions of sentences.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
31 words
The apparatus of claim 10, wherein said tray has tiers of various point values, and the front face of each of said plurality of strips has a corresponding point value thereon.
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