Paul W Koch

US Patent:

6446968, Sep 10, 2002

Filed:

Aug 31, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/652848

Inventors:

Paul W. Koch - Dearborn MI 48124

International Classification:

A63F 300

US Classification:

273243, 273242, 273248, 273251, 273252, 273254

Abstract:

A themed board game, is family oriented and recreates the fun and wonder of Halloween, preferably for 3 to 8 players (ages preferably 8 and older), and takes about one hour to play. A game board has printed thereon a thematic scene, a preferred example of which being a Haunted House. Twin sets of cards each include three category groups: a place category (depicted as locations of the Haunted House), an entity category (Halloween related persons or things, as for example a werewolf, a witch, a ghost, etc. ), and an event category (Halloween related occurrences, as for example a scream, a laugh, a howl, an odor, etc. ). A randomizing instrument is provided, preferably in the form of a single die which preferably may uniquely include a Halloween indicia in place of the six dots face (as for example a cat or a jack-o-lantern). Three cards, one from each category are secretly selected, the indicia of which form a Haunting Mystery. Players try to solve the Haunting Mystery by deducing which of the cards in play have no matching duplicate.