Board game improvement

Abstract

The present invention concerns that of a new and improved board game which would allow a user to easily and efficiently lift up and raise the game pieces associated with the game board. The present invention would comprise a magnetic wand, magnetic game pieces, and a game board. The magnet on the magnetic wand would be placed on the magnetic wand in such a manner that it would be able to pick up the game pieces from the top while the game pieces would be located on the game board of the present invention. The game board used with the present invention could be any one of a number of game boards currently in use on the market that are used with popular board games.

What I claim as my invention is:  
     
         1 . An improvement for board games comprising: 
 (a) at least one game piece, each game piece including an embedded magnet,    (b) a game board having a plurality of places on which a game piece could be placed,    (c) means for removably attaching a game piece to a place on the game board, and    (d) means for picking up a game piece without direct use of a hand.    
     
     
         2 . An improvement for board games according to    claim 1    wherein the means for removably attaching a game piece to a place on the game board further comprises: 
 (a) a plurality of magnets embedded within the game board, each magnet embedded within the game board under a place on the game board,  
 (b) whereby each magnet under a place on the game board would be attracted to a magnet embedded within a game piece.  
 
     
     
         3 . An improvement for board games according to    claim 2    wherein the means for picking up a game piece without direct use of a hand further comprise 
 (a) a magnetic wand having two ends, a first end and a second end,  
 (b) a handle located at the first end of the magnetic wand,  
 (c) the second end of the magnetic wand ending in a flat surface,  
 (d) a magnet embedded within the magnetic wand immediately underneath flat face on the second end of magnetic wand, and  
 (e) a plastic covering to cover the magnet within the flat face of the magnetic wand.  
 
     
     
         4 . An improvement for board games according to    claim 3    in combination with a board game, wherein the board game would be Scrabble®.