Three-dimensional alphanumeric puzzle game and its associated method of play
A novelty game that utilizes a plurality of alphanumeric-shaped playing pieces. Each playing piece has a body shaped as a letter or number. The body has a flat face surface, a parallel rear surface, and side edges that interconnect the face surface to the rear surface. The width of the side edges is large enough to enable each playing piece to stand upright on-edge and unsupported. A plurality of mechanical connectors are present on the playing pieces. The connectors enable each playing piece to physically interconnect with at least two others of the playing pieces to form an assemblage of letters or numbers word. When a conjoined assemblage is formed, only one or some of the playing pieces touch the ground. Most are supported in the air as the playing pieces build atop one another.
1. A method of game play, comprising the steps of:
providing a plurality of playing pieces, wherein each of said playing pieces has a body shaped as a letter of an alphabet, and wherein said body of each of said playing pieces has a height, a width and a bottom surface that enables said body to stand unsupported upon said bottom surface;
standing a first of said playing pieces on a flat surface;
repeatedly connecting other of said playing pieces to said first of said playing pieces to form a word assemblage until said word assemblage falls down, wherein said other of said playing pieces are supported above the flat surface by said first of said playing pieces in said word assemblage prior to said word assemblage falling down; and
gathering game points depending upon said word assemblage.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said body of each of said playing pieces has a plurality of male protrusions extending outwardly from said body, and
a plurality of female receptacles extending inwardly into said body, wherein each of said female receptacles is sized to receive and interconnect with any of said male protrusions.
3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said body of each of said playing pieces has a flat face surface, a parallel rear surface and side edges of said width extending therebetween, wherein said bottom surface is one of said side edges.
4. The playing piece according to claim 1 , wherein said width of said body is at least one quarter said height of said body.
5. The playing piece according to claim 3 , wherein said male protrusions extend from said side edges in a plurality of directions.
6. The playing piece according to claim 5 , wherein said female receptacles extend horizontally into said body in a plurality of directions.
7. A method of game play, comprising the steps of:
providing a plurality of playing pieces, wherein each of said playing pieces has an alphanumeric-shaped body with mechanical connectors formed thereon, and wherein said alphanumeric-shaped body of each of said playing pieces has a height, a width and a bottom surface that enables said alphanumeric-shaped body to stand unsupported upon said bottom surface; and
sequentially adding at least some of said playing pieces together to form an assemblage until said assemblage falls down, wherein at least one of said playing pieces rests on a supporting surface and others of said playing pieces are supported above said supporting surface by said mechanical connectors without touching said supporting surface prior to said assemblage falling down.
8. The game according to claim 7 , wherein each of said playing pieces has a common height and a common width, wherein said common width is no less than one-quarter said common height.
9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein said playing pieces are formed as letters of an alphabet.
10. The method according to claim 9 further including the step of forming said assemblage into a word, wherein said word has a word size.
11. The method according to claim 10 , further including the step of earning points depending upon said word size.
12. The method according to claim 7 , wherein each of said letter pieces has side edges and said step of interconnecting at least some of said playing pieces together includes interconnecting said side edges.
13. The method according to claim 7 , wherein said playing pieces are used to create words.
14. The method according to claim 7 , wherein said playing pieces are formed as numbers.
15. The method according to claim 14 , further including the step of forming said assemblage into a numerical expressions.
16. A method of game play, comprising the steps of:
providing a plurality of playing pieces, wherein each of said playing pieces has a body shaped as a number, and wherein said body of each of said playing pieces has a height, a width and a bottom surface that enables said body to stand unsupported upon said bottom surface;
standing a first of said playing pieces on a flat surface;
repeatedly connecting other of said playing pieces to said first of said playing pieces to form a numerical expression until said numerical expression falls down, wherein said other of said playing pieces are supported above the flat surface by said first of said playing pieces in said numerical expression prior to said numerical expression falling down; and
gathering game points depending upon said numerical expression.
17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein said body of each of said playing pieces has a plurality of male protrusions extending outwardly from said body, and
a plurality of female receptacles extending inwardly into said body, wherein each of said female receptacles is sized to receive and interconnect with any of said male protrusions.