BOARD GAME APPARATUS

摘要

An amusement device wherein a generally flat base is provided defining a playing area having a plurality of playing positions arranged in a desired pattern and over which playing pieces are manipulated arbitrarily from position to position. The base preferably has the configuration of a house with rooms defined thereon and with the playing positions arranged over the rooms so that a player attempts to proceed from room to room through the house. A mechanism is provided which will produce a ringing sound in response to a playing piece being placed at certain conditioned ones of the playing positions. Those playing positions which will effect the ringing sound in response to the playing piece being placed thereon are randomly conditioned and preferably unknown to the players of the game. A simulated phone is defined in each room whereby a player who has effected the ringing sound by placing his playing piece in a room must move to the phone to stop the ringing sound, either losing or gaining ground in his attempt to proceed through the house. A sub-base is provided below the base and the top of the sub-base and the underside of the base are provided with electrically conductive material. Freely movable disc-like contact members which effect said random conditioning are held between the base and sub-base and complete a circuit when attracted by a magnet contained in a playing piece. The areas between the base and sub-base are partitioned into sub-areas generally corresponding to the rooms defined on the base. Different playing positions in each of the rooms defined on the base may be activated by shaking the amusement device to position the contacts below different playing positions.