Abstract: An apparatus for launching a fishing line, that can be fixed to the ground and the fishing rod or held to the body by straps that has in its front end an explosion chamber in which a cartridge is acommodated against the stem of a fishing line sinker which has been inserted through a hole in the end of the apparatus, and a percussion pin which is slidable through a sleeve to impact the primer of the cartridge by means of a percussion device comprising at least one spiral spring that when released by means of a firing mechanism activates the percussion device to drive the percussion pin against the primer of the cartridge.

Abstract: A board game comprising a board having a first and second plurality of triangular areas and a plurality of opposing sets of playing pieces movable on the board. Each playing piece has at least two substantially flat sides so that it may be moved or flipped from one triangular area to another triangular area. When two playing pieces from the same set are positioned in adjacent triangular areas, they may unite to form a single, larger playing piece. The size of the game board may be varied to accommodate different numbers of players by adding or removing player set up areas or strategy areas or by folding unused portions of the board underneath the portion of the board to be used.