Tower game

Abstract

The instant invention is played using a plurality of rods and thin slices of fairly firm materials. The object is to build a tower as high as possible without having the tower fall over.

What we claim is:  
     
         1 . A kit for playing a game comprising slices of material and rods with instructions for building a tower with alternate slices and rods.  
     
     
         2 . A kit of  claim 1  wherein the rods are cylindrical.  
     
     
         3 . A kit of  claim 2  wherein the rods have a grove running part of the way down the cylinder parallel with the length of the cylinder.  
     
     
         4 . A kit of  claim 3  wherein the rod is a clothespin.  
     
     
         5 . A kit of  claim 1  wherein the rods are rectangular in cross-section.  
     
     
         6 . A kit of  claim 1  wherein the rods are square in cross-section.  
     
     
         7 . A kit of  claim 1  wherein the rods are oval in cross-section.  
     
     
         8 . A method of playing a game comprising the steps of: 
 (a) placing a slice of material on a table,    (b) placing rods at intervals in such a manner that said rods lie about parallel with one another,    (c) placing a second slice on top of said rods laid down in step (b), then placing rods at intervals on said second slice in such a manner that they are about parallel with each other and, when viewed from above, form about a 90° angle from the rods lying on the slice below, then    (d) repeating step c repeatedly to build a tower.