Tai ching

Abstract

A game for simulated fortune telling including a game board depicting on the surface of the board, sixteen Ba Gua symbols called trigrams (three lines), which include broken and solid lines, and their eight possible combinations. Numbers from 1-64 will also be depicted on the surface of the game board. The game is used by tumbling eight sided octagonal dice, which have the Ba Gua symbols represented on each surface of each die. The resulting two Ba Gua symbols are vectored on the game board to correspond with one of the 1-64 numbers. The resulting number corresponds with various pre-determined statements of fortune or prediction, which can then be referenced in a game book provided with the game.

1 . A game for simulated fortune telling comprising: 
 One black, eight-sided octahedron die with three white lines on each surface, broken and unbroken, in their eight possible combinations, and one white, eight-sided octahedron die with three black lines on each surface, broken and unbroken, in their eight possible combinations.    Game board manufactured with wood, molded plastic, or similar material, consisting of a flat surface, which may contain recessed or formed receptacles sufficiently shaped to allow for the eight-sided dice to sit in, in a manner that will enable the game player to read the surface of the dice and determine which symbols are showing.    Sixteen Ba Gua symbols corresponding to 64 numbers printed or otherwise reproduced on a flat surface of the game board and;    A list of statements of fortune wherein each statement has a designating symbol for singular identification thereof with respect to the identification symbol on each respective face of the die.    
   
   
       2 . A game apparatus as defined in  claim 1 , wherein said dice may be of the same color, but having their positional relationship corresponding to the opposite meaning e.g., one die situated on top and one on the bottom in lieu of differentiated coloring to represent their opposite meanings. Colors or other markings other than black or white could be used to signify the opposite meanings of the two dice as well. Additionally, one single die could be used to create the desired Trigram or Hexagram, by throwing it once for a Trigram (three lines), or twice to create a Hexagram (six lines). In all of the above examples, the dice will have three lines on each face of each die, in all of their possible broken (divided) and unbroken (undivided) combinations.