Patent ID: 6543772
Filing Date: 2003-04-08
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method of playing a multi-level board game, comprising:providing at least three playing levels, each playing level constituting a separate playing surface divided into a plurality of rows, each row having a plurality of alternating playing and non-playing squares offset from the playing and non-playing squares of an adjacent row forming a diagonal between the playing squares of adjacent rows, each playing surface having an identical arrangement of playing and non-playing squares; providing two sets of game pieces; arranging each set of game pieces at opposite ends of said separate playing surface so that each playing surface has an identical arrangement of game pieces; assigning non-capturing movement provisions within a playing level restricting each game piece to moving diagonally forward from a playing square to an adjacent playing square; assigning capturing movement provisions within a playing level in which a capturing game piece is moved diagonally forward along a straight line from its initial playing square over an opponent's captured game piece positioned on an adjacent playing square to a playing square adjacent the opponent's captured game piece and removing the opponent's captured game piece from the game; and assigning non-capturing movement provisions between adjacent playing levels from each of said playing squares to an identically arranged square on an adjacent playing level and capturing movement provisions between playing levels over an opponent's game piece positioned on an identically arranged playing square of an adjacent playing level to an identically arranged playing square on a playing level adjacent the opponent's game piece.