Anagram Game Pouch with Integrated Slide Scoring System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current game piece storage solutions do not integrate scorekeeping functionality, limiting their utility in games like anagrams where tracking wins is necessary.
Innovation Solution
A pouch with dual-purpose slide members that allow access to game pieces and serve as a scoring system, featuring a zipper with a pull tab as a scoring pointer and numeric indicia markers along its sides for tracking game scores.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a pouch is used solely for storing game pieces, then storage functionality is provided, but scorekeeping functionality is missing
Solution Approach 1:
The pouch is designed to perform multiple functions: storing game pieces and tracking scores. The zipper slide members serve dual purposes as both closure mechanisms and scorekeeping indicators, eliminating the need for separate scoretracking devices and thereby reducing overall device complexity while increasing versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The scorekeeping function is merged with the storage pouch by integrating scoring indicators directly onto the pouch body and using the zipper slide members as movable score pointers. This combination allows the pouch to simultaneously serve as both storage container and scoretracking apparatus.
2Ease of operation
If separate storage and scorekeeping devices are used, then functionality is provided, but device complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The pouch integrates multiple functions into a single device: game piece storage, scoretracking, and operational control through the zipper mechanism. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate scorecards or tracking sheets, reducing the number of components while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The scoring mechanism is combined with the pouch structure itself, using the zipper slide members as movable indicators that point to score markers printed on the pouch. This merging eliminates separate scorekeeping components and simplifies the overall system.
3Ease of manufacture
If the pouch structure is simplified, then manufacturing is easier, but integrated scorekeeping functionality is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The pouch design achieves multi-functionality through simple structural modifications: adding score markers to the pouch body and utilizing the existing zipper slide members as score pointers. This approach maintains manufacturing simplicity while integrating scorekeeping functionality, avoiding complex mechanical or electronic components.
Solution Approach 2:
The pouch structure itself provides the scorekeeping functionality through integrated markers and indicators, eliminating the need for external scorekeeping materials. The zipper mechanism automatically serves as the score pointer system, requiring no additional components or complex assembly.
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AI summary
A score-keeping product for an anagram game that has a pouch for storing a plurality of anagram game cubes therein; a pair of slide members that each can be linearly moved between open and closed positions with each slide member, in an at least partially open position, enabling access to the interior of pouch so that the anagram game cubes can be stored or removed therefrom for the purpose of playing the game cubes with each of the slide members including a scoring pointer; and a pair of scoring indicia on the pouch and each disposed along a linear locus that extends respectively along side of a corresponding slide member with each scoring indicia provided with a series of score markers. The slide members are selectively movable so that the corresponding scoring pointer can be progressively moved to align with one of the series of score markers in scoring the game.