Logic gate board game

Abstract

A logic gate board game with a board having a logic tree marked thereon with spaces for placement of tile playing pieces. Each tile has a particular logic gate symbol marked thereon. Each space has receptacles defining inputs and outputs. Colored pegs for insertion into the board receptacles on the game playing board identify the logic input and output state of the logic gate on the board. Players draw logic gate tiles from a non-transparent bag. Players take alternate turns to place tiles and pegs on the board. The object of the game is to complete a path of logic outputs of one player's pre-selected colored pegs to the top of the pyramid before his or her opponent completes a path of logic outputs of his or her pre-selected colored pegs to the top of the pyramid. The first player to reach the top is the winner.

What I claim as my invention is:  
     
         1 . A logic gate board game with tile playing pieces each having a pre-defined logic gate symbol thereon comprising: 
 (a) a game playing board having a plurality of marked spaces for the placement of tile playing pieces thereon, each of said marked spaces on the game playing board having a plurality of at least three receptacles about each of said marked spaces in the game playing board;    (b) a pair of logic gate inputs and at least one logic gate output identified by one of the at least three receptacles for each of the marked spaces, and    (c) a plurality of colored markers with a single color selected by each player adapted to be removably placed into the receptacles on the game playing board to identify the logic input and logic output state of the logic gate marked on the tile playing piece in the marked space.    
     
     
         2 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the game playing board has a logic tree thereon formed by said marked spaces for the placement of tile playing pieces thereon arranged in the shape of a pyramid.  
     
     
         3 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces include an AND logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         4 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces include an OR logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         5 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces include an NAND logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         6 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces includes a NOR logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         7 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces includes a XOR logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         8 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces includes a XNOR logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         9 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces include an RIGHT NOT logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         10 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces include an LEFT NOT logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         11 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces includes a LEFT PASS logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         12 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces includes a RIGHT PASS logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         13 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the tile game playing pieces includes a FUZZY logic gate symbol thereon.  
     
     
         14 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  wherein the number of logic tiles is twenty-five.  
     
     
         15 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  wherein the number of logic tiles is one hundred.  
     
     
         16 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  wherein two of the three receptacles are operably identified as inputs to the marked spaces for the placement of tile playing pieces thereon.  
     
     
         17 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  further comprising a non-visually transparent container for holding the logic tile game playing pieces to allow random selection of the logic tile game playing pieces by the players for play purposes.  
     
     
         18 . The logic gate board game of  claim 17  wherein said non-visually transparent container for holding the logic tile game playing pieces to allow random selection of the logic tile game playing pieces by the players for play purposes is a bag formed of black plastic material.  
     
     
         19 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  wherein the remaining one of the three receptacles is operably identified as a logic gate output.  
     
     
         20 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  wherein the plurality of colored markers consists of two colors.  
     
     
         21 . The logic gate board game of  claim 20  wherein the two colors of the colored markers are RED and GREEN.  
     
     
         22 . The logic gate board game of  claim 21  wherein the RED colored markers represent a LOW OUTPUT from said logic gate.  
     
     
         23 . The logic gate board game of  claim 21  wherein the GREEN colored markers represent a HIGH OUTPUT from said logic gate.  
     
     
         24 . The logic gate board game of claims  1 ,  20 ,  21 ,  22  and  23  wherein the markers are pegs.  
     
     
         25 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  further including a memory aide device for each player consisting of a TRUTH TABLE listing the inputs and outputs of each one of the logic gate symbols marked upon said tile playing pieces.  
     
     
         26 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1 , wherein the marked spaces on the game playing board for the placement of tile playing pieces thereon are arranged in a plurality of alternating rows of marked spaces thereon according to the mathematical series of (n) then (n−1) then (n) and continuing on, where n is a real number commencing with 2 and increasing to any number more than 2.  
     
     
         27 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  wherein the marked spaces on the game playing board for the placement of tile playing pieces thereon are arranged in a combination of the arrangements of the marked spaces on the game playing boards identified in  claim 2  and  claim 24 .  
     
     
         28 . The logic gate board game of  claim 1  wherein the marked spaces on the game playing board for the placement of tile playing pieces thereon are arranged in a plurality of alternating rows of marked spaces thereon according to the mathematical series of (n+1), (n), (n+1), (n), (n), (n), (n−1), wherein n is a minimum of 2 and the number of marked spaces in the last row cannot be less than [(n)−(n−1)].  
     
     
         29 . The logic gate board game of claims  2 ,  24 ,  25  and  26  wherein each of the marked spaces on the game playing board for the placement of tile playing pieces thereon each has dual inputs and dual outputs.