My friends are dorks.
Three snippets of recent conversation:
Richard (getting dressed & pulling clean underwear out of a drawer): "I think these pants have had it. Look at the elastic! It's not elastic any more, it's undergoing plastic deformation!".
Me: "Hooke's Law in action!"
Tim (coming into our room as we were getting up): "Oh, you've got the big bear in bed ( Read more... )
Richard (getting dressed & pulling clean underwear out of a drawer): "I think these pants have had it. Look at the elastic! It's not elastic any more, it's undergoing plastic deformation!".
Me: "Hooke's Law in action!"
Tim (coming into our room as we were getting up): "Oh, you've got the big bear in bed ( Read more... )
It would differ by country, but in the U.S. you're allowed to patent an order in which a sandwich is assembled (provided no one else has, yet).
Patents are, I think, also harder to infringe on. Scrabble (I think, don't quote me here) was first marketed as a "word" or "spelling" game. As your game requires no words or spelling (and I happen to know for a fact that at least in the U.S. you can't copyright individual letters of the alphabet) you would be fine.
So, given that I don't think you can patent patent...
• Letters of the alphabet
• Squares
• Colors
I think you'd be alright.
Mostly, you would need to worry about the method of scoring, as that is most likely included in it. If it's too familiar, you could use hex-tiles instead of squares, which could allow for a slight change in mechanics, but could be different enough that you could patent it.
A card game could work as well (but you'd have no double electron score tiles, then).
Oh, and you'd always be able to play Neutronium (provided it counts as a legitimate chemical element, but after a half hour of scrabble, I'll count "Porworstaflibble" just so some one can win already...)
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