Mathematical colored-numbered puzzle board game

Abstract

A method of playing a game includes placing a plurality of numbered tiles on a storage grid structure with each of the numbered tiles being marked with a predetermined number from a predetermined set of numbers and each of the tiles being placed on a storage space. One numbered tile is moved to a useable play space. The moving step is repeated until: (a) each of the tiles is on one of the useable play spaces; (b) the difference between the numerical value of each of the numbered tiles on each of useable spaces and a number tile on an adjacent useable space along one of the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal rows is greater than a predetermined increment; and (c) each of the predetermined numbers on the numbered tiles appears no more than once in each of the horizontal, vertical and diagonal rows.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of playing a game on a planar game board,
 wherein the game board has a storage grid and a puzzle play grid thereon,   wherein the storage grid has a plurality of storage spaces arranged in a storage grid structure,   wherein the puzzle play grid having a combination of useable play spaces and unusable play spaces with the useable spaces being indicated by an indicia different from the unusable play spaces and with the useable play spaces and the unusable play spaces forming a play grid structure having a combination of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal rows of useable play spaces and unusable play spaces, and   wherein the number of storage spaces and the number of useable play spaces are the same, the method comprising:   placing a plurality of numbered tiles on the storage grid structure with each of the plurality of numbered tiles being marked with a predetermined number from a predetermined set of numbers and each of the plurality of tiles being placed on one of plurality of storage spaces;   moving one of the plurality of numbered tiles to the one of useable play spaces; and   repeating the moving step until: (a) each of the plurality of tiles is on one of the useable play spaces; (b) the difference between the numerical value of each of the plurality of numbered tiles on each of useable spaces and a number tile on an adjacent useable space along one of the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal rows is greater than a predetermined increment; and (c) each of the predetermined numbers on the numbered tiles appears no more than once in each of the horizontal, vertical and diagonal rows.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of numbered tiles, the number of storage spaces, and the number of useable play spaces is forty;
 wherein the number of unusable play spaces is nine;   wherein the numerical value of each of the predetermined numbers is an integer between zero and nine; and   wherein the predetermined increment is one.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the storage grid structure is rectangular and the play grid structure is square-shaped. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 3 , wherein the storage grid structure is arranged in eight columns and five rows and the play grid structure is arranged in seven columns and seven rows. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the each of the plurality of numbered tiles has a colored side having a colored background and a black-and-white side;
 wherein the colored side and the black-and-white side of each of the plurality of numbered tiles having the same predetermined number thereon; and   wherein each of the colored sides for each of the plurality of numbered tiles has predetermined background color and the predetermined background color corresponds to the predetermined number thereon.   
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the placing step and the moving step are played with all of the tiles being played with the colored side in an up position. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 6 , further comprising:
 providing a color chart for illustrating a color scheme for the plurality of numbered tiles.   
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the placing step and the moving step are played with all of the tiles being played with the colored side in a down position. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of numbered tiles has the ability to be magnetically attached to each of the storage spaces and each of the useable play spaces. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the game board is foldable. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the game board includes a pair of sections pivotally connected to one another with the storage grid being on one of the sections and the puzzle play grid being on the other section. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 providing a recording device selected from the group consisting of a scoring book, a recording book for recording a solution.