Patent ID: 6276685
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method of playing a three dimensional board game comprising the steps of:(a) providing a three dimensional game board comprising a plurality of horizontal levels, each of said horizontal levels further comprising a plurality of game piece placement areas, and each of said horizontal levels being defined as having a front edge, a rear edge, a left edge, and a right edge, and a corner at the intersection of each adjacent edge;(b) providing a plurality of player sets of player game pieces arranged on said game board, each of said player sets of player game pieces bearing indicia to identify each said player game piece with a single one of said player sets, said number of player sets equating to a number of players of said board game;(c) providing a neutral set of neutral game pieces arranged on said game board bearing indicia to identify each said neutral game piece with said neutral set;(d) defining the movement of said player game pieces as having five modes, a linear mode, a corner mode, an angular mode, a nonlinear mode, and a bump mode, and defining the movement of said neutral game pieces as having four modes, a linear mode, a corner mode, an angular mode, and a nonlinear mode;(e) allowing a moving player to move one of a player game piece and a neutral game piece through one of said modes from a first position to a second position; and(f) allowing a moving player to remove from said game board another player's game piece when said moving player moves a game piece through either of said linear mode and said angular mode, and said another player's game piece lies within an imaginary path of travel of said moving player's game piece from said first position to said second position;said bump mode being defined as movement of one of a player game piece and a neutral game piece from a first placement area in any direction to a second placement area adjacent said first placement area and holding an opposing player game piece.