Patent ID: 7059606
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A reconfigurable game piece stack arranged for playing a game, the stack comprising: a plurality of game pieces, at least some of the game pieces comprising parallelepiped-shaped primary game pieces, each primary game piece having a pair of opposed non-right angle parallelogram end faces, each of the end faces having a pair of angled edges intersecting a top edge and a bottom edge at an angle α, or each primary game piece further including parallel rectangular top and bottom surfaces, the top and bottom surfaces offset relative to one another by an offset distance D, each primary game piece further including first and second parallel angled side faces positioned to intersect a corresponding one of the angled edges of each of the end faces; multiple layers of the game pieces vertically stacked, the multiple layers comprising at least one lower layer and at least one upper layer, at least some of the multiple layers comprising a first, second, and third primary game pieces disposed immediately adjacent one another with the first side face of a first of a primary game piece abutting the second side face of the second primary game piece and with the first side face of the second primary game piece abutting the second side face of the third primary game piece to form a parallelepiped layer, a portion of the first primary game piece overlying a portion of the second primary game piece in the same layer by a distance equal to the offset distance D, and a portion of the second primary game piece overlying a portion of the third primary game piece in the same layer by a distance equal to the offset distance D, the top rectangular surfaces of at least one of the lower layers forming a support surface for at least one of the upper layers ; and at least one of the game pieces in a selected one of the lower layers being selectively removable from the game piece stack to leave at least one other primary game piece remaining in the selected lower layer thereby altering a tipping moment of the game piece stack.