Game for encoding of ideographic characters simulating english alphabetic letters

• US 5,257,938 A
• Filed: 01/30/1992
• Issued: 11/02/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hsin C. Tien
• Original Assignee: Hsin C. Tien
• Inventors: Tien, Hsin C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith, Jeffrey A.
• Application Number:
  US07/828,288
• Time in Patent Office: 642 Days
• Field of Search: 434/157, 434/156, 434/159, 434/160, 434/167, 434/178, 434/128, 273/299, 273/300, 273/302, 273/272, 273/273, 273/268, 273/236
• US Class Current: 434/128
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/0435 ten-sided
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/04 Geographical or like games ; Educational games educational appliances in general G09B
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0402 for learning languages
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/0413 Cuboid dice
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/08 Printed or written appliances, e.g. text books, bilingual letter assemblies, charts
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/22 Games, e.g. card games

Abstract

A game is disclosed for teaching the players the new multilingual alphabet of Tienstrokes on paper, video or computer screen, or any other information or communication device, as the Global Education Alphabet, composed of only ten English letters, simulating ten fundamental Chinese ideographic strokes. This translingual graphic alphabet represents ten basic hand motions as embodied in the Tienstrokes Indicators. The game shows how Chinese ideographs are transformed into Tienstrokes Similacode, an ideographic sequence of English letters. The Tienstrokes Similacode is then looked up in the dictionary to ascertain the corresponding words spelled in English, Japanese, Chinese or any other phonetic script.

Claims

1. A game apparatus for teaching the decoding of ideographic characters, comprising;

a game board having a surface with the image of a grid of a first number of horizontal rows of said ideographs, each row having said ideographs arranged in vertical alignment with corresponding ideographs in the other of said horizontal rows to form a second number of vertical columns;

die means for locating an ideograph in the grid comprising a first die having said first number of facets, each facet having indicia for indicating a corresponding horizontal row in the grid, and a second die having said second number of facets, each facet thereof having indicia indicating a corresponding vertical column in the grid to locate an ideograph.

2. A game apparatus as defined in claim 1, in which the first number is 12 and the second number is 12.

3. A game apparatus as defined in claim 1, in which the die means comprises a pair of dice, each die having a facet with a numerical indicia whereby a coordinate may be located by throwing the dice and summing up the indicia on a selected facet of the two dice.

4. A game for finding the English counterpart of an ideographic character comprising one or more visually perceptive ideographic strokes, comprising:

a dictionary of English definitions, each of said definitions corresponding to a predetermined, different series of English letters, comprising V, H, L, J, I, T, G, N, C and Z, each series corresponding to the strokes of an ideographic character;

means for selecting an ideographic character from a pool of ideographic characters, the ideographic character having one or more ideographic strokes; and

means for displaying a series of English letters, each stroke in the selected ideographic character having a visual similarity to a letter in the series of English letters, the number of letters in the series corresponding to the number of strokes in the selected ideographic character;

whereby the user can convert the selected ideograph to a series of English letters, and then locate the series of English letters in the dictionary.