Abstract: A board game for two players or teams includes elements of the games of scrabble and chess as well as other novel features, and includes a game board having a pattern of lettered playing spaces and a plurality of differently configured playing pieces or markers for each player or team. The differently configured playing pieces or markers are assigned patterns for their moves on the board depending upon their configuration. The pieces/markers are alternatingly moved to various lettered spaces on the board to claim letters for use in forming words. Points are awarded for each letter used in the formation of a word. A further aspect of the game is that no markers or pieces are ever captured or removed from play, even though the rules allow two opposing pieces to occupy the same space under certain circumstances.

Abstract: A board game that educates and informs the players specifically about the various techniques and skills involved with certain games of chance and generally, about the gambling businesses currently operating in cities like Las Vegas, Nev. The game board is provided with two principal areas, including an outer board section and an inner board section. The outer section consists of a plurality of consecutive spaces situated around the periphery of the board forming a path of travel for each player's movable piece. Most of these spaces represent a particular casino currently operating in Las Vegas, Nev. A few of these spaces are designated with indicia that directs a player to act according to the instructions or graphical depictions thereon. The inner board section comprises a simulated roulette wheel with a spinner situated in the center. Around the spinner are formed a plurality of individual numbers in a circular arrangement and a series of example poker hands surrounding the numbers.

Abstract: A game to simulate soccer with a simulated soccer field having conventional soccer demarcations directed thereabout. Various player positions are imparted permanently on the soccer game field for simulating opposing teams. A twenty-six sided die is provided to afford directed play to various players of each team, with the die having identical enumeration in contrasting colorations for association with the contrasting teams.

Abstract: An action board game apparatus includes an inclined game board having openings therein, game pieces mountable on the game board partially through selected ones of the openings and capable of being pushed through the openings upon application of a sufficient predetermined force on an upper portion of each game piece extending above the game board, and a rotary driver movable across the game board. The driver has an elongated shaft and wheels attached to opposite shaft ends. The game board includes parallel linear tracks attached along opposite side edges of the board. The game board openings are arranged in parallel side-by-side rows also extending parallel to the guide tracks. The tracks receive the wheels and permit rolling movement to adapt the driver to move across the game board by itself with its shaft spaced above the game board and passing over upper portions of the game pieces.

Abstract: A chess-like board game apparatus for three player chess is disclosed. The apparatus consists of a game board of such architecture so as to present to each of three players a portion of the overall board, which three portions consist of forty-eight playing positions each, arranged in eight file rows and six rank rows. The head of each of these segments is aligned with the external sides of an equal-sided triangular shaped board segment consisting of twenty-four positions. The game is played by three opponents, each employing a full complement of traditional chess pieces whose movements, although similar to what they would be in the conventional game of chess, are further governed by a set rules specific to the game apparatus.

Abstract: A three dimensional game--with both alignment and other-than-alignment aspects--including a games-playing structure and playing-pieces. Certain spaces preferably have indicia of relative advantage. The structure comprises four playing surfaces on, respectively, a base, an upper stage substantially parallel with and spaced from the base, and each of two side stages, which also are substantially parallel and spaced from the base but intermediate a lower plane defined by the base and an upper plane defined by the upper stage. Each surface has a configuration of playing-spaces thereon, the four configurations are substantially congruent. The stages are held or carried by columns, and preferably transparent. The configurations of the base and the upper stage are preferably in vertical alignment.

Abstract: A shock damping and absorbing racket comprises a frame substantially in an oval form and a handle extending therefrom. A groove is made around the periphery of the frame. A plurality of through holes are evenly spaced along the groove, through which the string is interwoven to form a large striking surface within the frame. A rib is across the two opposite lateral side of the frame, making the vertical taut strings to cross it in such a way that one portion of the string crosses over the rib and another portion of the same string crosses under the rib so as to rapidly and efficiently stop and prevent the transmission of shock waves.

Abstract: A game for two or more players includes a playing board, having a plurality of spaced playing positions identified by different indicia, two or more sets of moveable playing pieces and a random indicium generator such as a die. When playing the game, a first player obtains an indicium and positions one of his pieces on the board playing position identified by that indicium. The first player then proceeds to obtain a second indicium and positions another of his pieces in the board playing position identified by the second indicium. If the second indicium is the same as the first indicium, the first player removes his piece already on the board and gives way to the second player. Otherwise, the first player keeps on playing until he runs out of pieces, or he has to remove a player piece, or he decides to give way to the second player. The second player similarly obtains an indicium and positions one of his pieces on the board playing position identified by the indicium obtained.

Abstract: A racket frame, such as for a tennis racket, has a head portion, a handle portion and a throat portion extending between and interconnecting the head and handle portions. The head portion encompasses an open region and has a first plurality of stringing holes for attaching stringing to the head portion and across the open region. The throat portion is in the form of a pair of legs in a generally V-shaped configuration. The frame also includes a second plurality of non-stringing holes defined in one or both of the head and throat portions for forming voids in the material thereof to reduce the weight and tailor the stiffness thereof in a manner which reduces axial and torsional deflections of the head portion upon striking a ball by the stringing across the open region of the head portion.

Abstract: An inflatable generally toroidal suspension tube for resiliently suspending and retaining a stringed inner frame insert within an outer frame of a racket head. Different parts of the tube are able to expand at different rates in response to increased inflation pressure, so as to control distortion of the outer frame of the racket head. The tube may be of a thermoplastic material and tubular restrictors surround the portions of the suspension tube which are intended in use to be located where the radius of curvature of the frame is greatest, in order to prevent distortion of those parts of the racket head frame.

Abstract: The improved racquetball racquet has a strung surface which is larger in area than the strung surface of a conventional racquet, and in which the strung area is both longer in length and width than the strung area of a conventional racquet. However, the overall weight and balance of a conventional racquet which has proven necessary for good playing characteristics for all such racquets have been maintained. The racquet has synergistically combined the weight of the racquet, the center of mass of the racquet, the stiffness of the frame, and the response characteristics to create a racquet of sufficient durability with a larger "sweet spot" to facilitate the playing of the sport and to increase the level of skill, particularly of the novice and intermediate players. The racquet has an overall length of 181/2 inches to 221/2 inches and a .Iadd.frame and strung surface .Iaddend.width of .[.12.]. .Iadd.91/2 .Iaddend.inches to .[.143/4.]. .Iadd.111/2 .Iaddend.

Abstract: The improved racquet has a strung surface which is larger in area than the strung surface of a conventional racquet, and in which the strung area is both longer in length and width than the strung area of a conventional racquet. However, the overall weight and balance of a conventional racquetball racquet which have proven necessary for good playing characteristics for all such racquets have been maintained. The racquet has synergistically combined the weight of the racquet, the center of mass of the racquet, the stiffness of the frame, and the response characteristics to create a racquet of sufficient durability with a larger "sweet spot" to facilitate the playing of the sport and to increase the level of skill, particularly of the novice and intermediate players. The racquet has an overall length of .[.181/2.]. .Iadd.19 .Iaddend.