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Handheld wheel spelling game device

  • US 20080146320A1
  • Filed: 01/05/2006
  • Published: 06/19/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A game device comprising:

  • a plurality of individual wheels each having an exposed circumferential edge portion formed with facets marked with respective discrete indicia;

    means for mounting, releasably, the plurality of wheels stacked together in coaxial, face-to-face relation for relative rotation of selected individual wheels to bring the indicia into a selected axial alignment to complete one of an equation, word, picture, and pattern, release of the wheels permitting shuffling thererof as loose piece items for remounting in a different sequence/order;

    means on respective individual wheels for identifying their relative rotational and sequential positions when stacked together, corresponding to relative positions of selected respective indicia;

    means cooperable with the identifying means for detecting said at least one of said relative rotational positions and said sequential positions of the wheels corresponding to relative position of selected respective indicia and providing signals indicative of such positions;

    signal processing means comprising an input operably linked to the detecting means for receipt of said signals therefrom, at least one database correlating said signals with respective values associated with respective indicia and an executable program for at least one of comparing said values with a database (such as a dictionary) and for calculating a score corresponding to the relative positions of selected respective indicia and for determining and providing a result signal to an output; and

    ,a display, operably linked to the output to receive the result signal and display the result determined by the processor.

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