Kniteks-a board game

• US 20040137976A1
• Filed: 01/14/2003
• Published: 07/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Serguei Pijine
• Original Assignee: Serguei Pijine
• Inventors: Pijine, Serguei
• Application Number:
  US10/341,093
• Publication Number:
  US 20040137976A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/9
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2003/00182 Four-sided game board
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2003/00703 Tokens or chips
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00697 Playing pieces
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/02 Chess; Similar board games

Abstract

Kniteks is a game played on a square board. The game objects are chips that are placed randomly on the board at the beginning of each new game. The game is played by one, two, three or four players. Each player is trying to collect as many chips as possible. The winner is the player who has collected more chips than any other player.

Claims

1. A game called Kniteks comprising:

A game field (a square board) with a number of randomly placed objects (chips) at the beginning of each game. The board is a grid of squares. A chip—

is a game object that does not belong to any player until it is captured. Every chip occupies a square that is not occupied by other chips. Every player has an instrument that is used to collect the chips on the board. This instrument is called a ‘

swipe’

. Every player has a swipe of his/her own. A player can have only one swipe. A swipe can only be moved on the board according to a rule—

an ‘

L’

shape move in any direction (for example, 2 squares horizontally and 1 square vertically). The swipe captures chips only on the square that it has landed. The swipe cannot capture other players'"'"' swipes.

2. A game according to claim 1 wherein said medium is a computer with display, hardware and software and with or without Internet connection and said randomly distributed chips and their positions are generated by a computer software at the beginning of each new game. An order in which the players are making their moves is determined by the computer software.

3. A game according to claim 1 wherein said medium is a simple board and said randomly distributed chips and their positions are determined by the participating players at the beginning of each new game. An order in which the players are making their moves is determined by the participating players.

4. A game according to claim 1 wherein every player objective is to capture as many chips as possible. The game ends when there is no more chips left on the board.

5. A game according to claim 1 wherein the winner of the game is declared the player who collected more chips than other participating players. If several players have collected the same number of chips, the winner is the player who spent less time to collect the chips than the other players. A draw is declared in case when it is impossible to determine the winner (same number of collected chips and same game time or other possible reasons)