QUESTION ANSWERING GAMEBOARD AND SPINNER

• US 3,559,995 A
• Filed: 04/29/1968
• Issued: 02/02/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rufus F. Steadman
• Original Assignee: Rufus F. Steadman
• Inventors: Steadman, Rufus F.
• Application Number:
  US04/724,993
• Time in Patent Office: 1,009 Days
• US Class Current: 273/141.00A
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/181 Fortune-telling games

Abstract

This invention is a question answering gameboard and spinner. The gameboard has a plurality of concentric circles of answers, including Zodiac connotations, positive and negative answers, alphabet, months, several sets of numbers, one set referring to a key chart of answers that also appears on the board, and areas on the edge of the board for receiving the hands of the player that he may concentrate on his questions, and thus influence the correct answers thereto, possibly by Extra Sensory Perception or otherwise. It is intended as a game for entertainment, but is capable of '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'Ouija'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' game usage, depending on the individual playing therewith. At the center of the question answering playing area, a spinner receiving area is provided in the form of a magnet disc having a boss at its center, and a spinner having a pivot aperture at its center point provided with a minimum friction shaft having a base in which is mounted a magnet with spaced apart magnetic poles to be held on the disc by magnetic attraction, and be held against shifting by the boss extending between the spaced apart poles of the magnet.

Claims

1. A question answering gameboard and spinner device comprising a gameboard, said question answering gameboard having a plurality of concentric circles of answer data, said answer data including a circle of alphabet letters, a circle of Zodiac indications, a circle of alternate positive and negative answers, and a circle of numbers, hand receiving areas designated on the board along one edge thereof adjacent opposite sides of the board, a spinner receiving area at the common center of said circles, a spinner pivotally mounted on said spinner receiving area, said spinner receiving area comprising a disc of magnetic metal, said spinner comprising an elongated pointer, said pointer having a pivot aperture at approximately its midpoint, a pivot member comprising a minimum friction shaft extendable through said spinner aperture, said shaft having an enlarged base, a magnet mounted in said shaft base for removably pivotally mounting said spinner on said spinner receiving magnetic disc of said board, said magnet having a pair of horizontally spaced apart magnetic poles thereon defining a recess in the lower surface of said magnet, and a boss on said magnetic disc extending between said magnetic poles when said spinner shaft is mounted thereover preventing accidental horizontal movement of said spinner shaft pivot magnet over said magnet disc on said gameboard.

2. The device of claim 1, a numbered key chart for said board having a plurality of answers, and a circle of numbers concentric with said other circles corresponding to said numbered answers, said latter circle of numbers being substantially more numerous than said first mentioned circle of numbers, said spinner having a number indicating recess located on opposite sides of said spinner aperture, said number indicating recesses having the same radius as said latter mentioned more numerous circle of numbers.

3. The device of claim 2, said circle of Zodiac indications also containing the names of the months appropriate thereto, and also including a trio of numbers adjacent each Zodiac indication.

4. The device of claim 3, said positive and negative answer circle including direction arrows directing the rotation of said spinner in one direction, said Zodiac indication circle including arrows directing the rotation of said spinner in the opposite direction.

5. A gameboard and spinner device, said gameboard having a plurality of game indicia thereon, a spinner for said gameboard, said gameboard having a spinner receiving area thereon comprising a disc of magnetic metal, said spinner comprising an elongated pointer, said pointer having a pivot aperture at approximately its midpoint, a pivot member comprising a minimum friction shaft having an enlarged base, and a magnet mountEd in said shaft base for removably pivotally mounting said spinner on said spinner receiving magnetic disc of said board, said magnet having a pair of horizontally spaced apart magnetic poles thereon defining a recess in the lower surface of said magnet, and a boss on said magnetic disc extending between said magnetic poles when said spinner shaft is mounted thereover preventing accidental horizontal movement of said spinner shaft pivot magnet over said magnet disc on said gameboard.