US 6,981,700 B2
Strategic board game
Omar A. Syed, P.O. Box 770762, Lakewood, Ohio 44107 (US); and Aamir G. Syed, P.O. Box 770762, Lakewood, Ohio 44107 (US)
Filed on Oct. 03, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/679,027.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/415670, filed on Oct. 03, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2004/0065999 A1, Apr. 08, 2004
Int. Cl. A63F 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 273—260 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for playing a strategic board game wherein the game is played by two or more players on a game board that is gridded to designate spaces such that pieces that are identifiable as belonging to each of the two or more players are positioned within, and moved among, the spaces; the method comprising the steps of:
requiring that the two or more players take turns for being an active player that is allowed to move one or more of the active player's pieces;
allowing the active player to move or position the active player's pieces in a way that manipulates by pushing or pulling an opposing player's pieces, wherein the opposing player's pieces are pieces that belong to an opposing player that is one of the two or more players other than the active player; and wherein:
pushing is a push move that comprises using a one of the active player's pieces to push a one of the opposing player's pieces out of a first space and into a second unoccupied space, and then moving the one of the active player's pieces into the first space; and
pulling is a pull move that comprises moving a one of the active player's pieces out of a third space and into a fourth unoccupied space, and then using the one of the active player's pieces to pull a one of the opposing player's pieces into the third space.