Interchangeable Board Panels for Space-Saving Custom Board Games
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge of limited storage space for numerous board games and the difficulty in designing and creating personalized games without the necessary components, along with the inefficiency of existing board game systems, is addressed.
Innovation Solution
A reconfigurable board game system featuring a board with page-retaining corner members for inserting and interchanging customized game pages, accompanied by a kit containing reusable and customizable game pieces, allowing for easy creation and storage of multiple games.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate board games are stored, then game variety is improved, but storage space is consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The board game system uses a universal reusable component set (board, pieces, dice, cards, tokens) that can be configured to play multiple different games. The board features interchangeable panels and the component set can be arranged differently to support various game types including race games, strategy games, and cooperative games, eliminating the need to store multiple separate game sets.
Solution Approach 2:
The board is divided into multiple interchangeable panels that can be arranged in different configurations. Game components are separated into distinct categories (pieces, dice, cards, tokens) that can be independently selected and arranged to create different game variations, allowing one physical system to support many game types.
2Adaptability or versatility
If custom board game pages are created, then game personalization is improved, but ease of operation is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The board panels are designed with universal corner pockets that can accommodate any standard-sized printed game page. This allows users to easily swap between different custom-designed or pre-printed game pages without complex assembly, maintaining ease of operation while enabling full game personalization.
3Volume of stationary object
If game components are reused across games, then storage efficiency is improved, but manufacturing precision is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The reusable components are manufactured with standardized dimensions and features (uniform piece sizes, standard dice dimensions, consistent card proportions) that allow them to function across multiple game types. The board panels use standardized corner pocket locations and sizes that accommodate various game configurations, enabling precision through standardization rather than compromising it.
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AI summary
A reconfigurable boardgame system herein comprises a reconfigurable boardgame board (e.g., four panel tri-fold) with a plurality of “page-retaining corner members” in corners of board panels, allowing interchanging customized boardgame pages. In one embodiment, only those corners of each panel that are exteriorly located on the board have corresponding corner members (leaving the center unobstructed). In another embodiment, the boardgame board is contained within a reconfigurable boardgame kit, which may comprise reusable (e.g., generic and shared) game pieces (dice, timers, pawns, etc.) for use by many games. In still another embodiment, the boardgame kit comprises blank and/or templated items to be filled in, such as boardgame panels, cards, customized dice, game pawn blanks, rules templates, etc. Envelopes may store the game panel pages, rules, and custom pieces of each individual boardgame, to be stored in the kit and used with the reconfigurable boardgame board and the generic reusable game pieces.