Modular Dice Game Assembly with Rotatable Numerical Pieces

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing dice games and assemblies lack a configuration that is easy to assemble, disassemble, store, and transport in a low-profile form while providing an educational, fun, and cooperative experience involving excitement, competition, strategy, skill, and chance.

Innovation Solution

A dice game assembly comprising a left sidewall, a right sidewall, and a backwall forming a dice collection region, with twelve independently rotatable numerical gaming pieces that can be secured to a rod, allowing for easy assembly and disassembly, and featuring a design that allows for low-profile storage and transport.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the dice game assembly uses a fixed, permanent structure, then the stability and durability are improved, but the ease of assembly and disassembly deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidease of assembly and disassembly

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The dice game assembly is divided into separate modular components including sidewalls, endwalls, a playing surface, and numerical gaming pieces that can be independently assembled and disassembled. This segmentation allows the structure to be easily configured and reconfigured while maintaining stability during play through interlocking features and secure connections between modules.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If the dice game assembly uses a compact, low-profile design, then the ease of storage and transport is improved, but the playing surface area and structural stability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of storage and transportVSAvoidplaying surface area

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The modular components of the dice game assembly are designed to nest within each other when disassembled, with smaller elements fitting into larger structural components. This nesting approach enables the game to be stored in a compact, low-profile configuration while providing adequate playing surface area when assembled, effectively resolving the contradiction between compact storage and sufficient play space.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Stability of the object's composition

If the numerical gaming pieces are fixed in position, then the structural stability is improved, but the adaptability and replayability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidreplayability

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The numerical gaming pieces are designed to be movable and reconfigurable rather than fixed, allowing players to change their positions and orientations between rounds. This dynamic design maintains structural stability through secure mounting options while enabling unlimited replayability by allowing players to create new numerical combinations and game configurations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11517811B1Dice game and associated dice game assembly for playing the same

Publication Date: 2022.12.06 TARDIFF SR CAL L

AI summary

A dice game assembly that is easy to assemble, disassemble, store and transport in a low-profile configuration, including: a left sidewall; a right sidewall; a backwall; wherein the left sidewall, the right sidewall, and the backwall form a dice collection region for collecting thrown dice proximate thereto; and twelve numerical gaming pieces, wherein the twelve numerical gaming pieces are independently rotatably displaceable between a first, unplayed position and a second, played position.