Abstract: A high-risk racing game in which two to six players own racing cars represented by their pawns which they race along routes of enumerated spaces through the United States, Canada and Mexico on a gameboard. Players are given the cars, or purchase them outright or at auction by total cash or part payment with the balance financed against a car's credit limit. A player defrays incurred expenses by cash payment or debt charged against an owned car. The first player with 100 points on the scoreboard wins the game. The scoreboard records points accumulated by players, cars owned outright and purchased, and cars available for acquisition. Each time a player lands upon or passes the gameboard's score-line space, he collects points for cars he owns, with additional points collected for two-car racing teams of each specific group. The number of gameboard spaces a player advances his pawn corresponds to a number card picked or a certain space landed upon.

Abstract: A horse racing game comprising a gameboard inscribed with the representation of a racetrack, a number of horse performance cards bearing personal information regarding actual horses, and a number matrix referring to that horse's performance in an actual racing event, markers for use by the players in enacting on the gameboard their progress in the simulated racing game, random number generator means for use in combination with the numbers matrix provided on the horse performance card in order to determine movement of the player's markers, tables by which the variable conditions of an actual horse racing event may be taken into account while running the simulated race, and a realistic race record for charting the progress and outcome of the simulated horse race.

Abstract: A move selector for randomly determining the movement of sailboat tokens along a sailboat racing game board. The move selector comprises a disc rotatably mounted within a cylindrical housing. A spindle is mounted on the disc axis for manually rotating the disc. The disc comprises two sets of numerals spaced at angularly equidistant intervals. Each set of numerals has an associated arrow on the disc which extends radially from the disc axis. A mask positioned over the disc has a plurality of windows and an arrow adjacent each window pointing radially away from the disc axis. The windows are spaced at angularly equidistant intervals such that when the rotating disc comes to a stop only one set of numerals and its associated arrow is visible through the windows. The associated arrow determines the wind direction.

Abstract: A regatta board game is disclosed in which a rectangular game board is laid off in a grid of squares established by a first series of parallel lines extending in a first direction and a second series of parallel lines extending in a second direction which is normal to the first direction. Some of the squares are designated as falling within a first, second or third category, the first category designating preliminary course marker positions, the second and third categories providing an indication that a player is to draw a card which partially determines the progress of play. A single eight-sided die is provided, and a plurality of players' tokens and a plurality of course marking pennants are also included among the game accessories, the pennants being each adapted to mark a selected one of the squares in the first category as a sequential position in a randomly selectable course set forth on a "Course Card" drawn just prior to the commencement of play.

Abstract: A sailboat racing board game and game board therefor is provided for racing game pieces through a race course made from contiguous squares. An upwind leg of the race course provides tacking movement for the game pieces can move forwardly against a fixed wind direction. The squares along the upwind leg are oriented in a particular direction so that the game pieces can move in diagonal directions with respect to the fixed wind direction to simulate tacking. While at the same time, the game pieces are not moving in a direction which is diagonal with respect to the orientation of the squares. The game also provides game cards which the players pick up if they land on certain indicated squares on the game board.

Abstract: In a sailing game, a number of movable land masses each having a habor therein for placement upon a game board. At least two types of sailing vessels, each having different navigational abilities when moving over the game board. Wind speed and direction indicators for determining the possible movements of the vessels during each turn, wherein all vessels on the game board, and not within a harbor, must be subject to the indicators. Facility and buoy cards acquired by each player allow the player to alter the effects of the wind speed and direction indicators upon his vessel. The winner being the first individual to navigate his vessel from the home harbor to all of the other harbors and return back to the home harbor.

Abstract: A board game which simulates a racing event, such as a horse race. The game includes a game board having a plurality of parallel racing tracks disposed thereon; a pair of gaming dice for determining the play of the game; and a plurality of playing pieces which are moved along the respective racing tracks during the play of the game. Upon commencement of the game, the dice are rolled to determine which ones of a predetermined number of playing pieces are to be "scratched" from the subsequent race. The remaining playing pieces are placed in the starting positions on the respective tracks and are advanced along the respected tracks in accordance with the roll of the dice. A plurality of sets of playing cards are dealt out randomly to the players. Each set of playing cards is comprised of a plurality of numbered cards corresponding to the numbers of respective ones of the playing pieces.

Abstract: A game in which all of the pieces, while movable for play, are captured against removal and loss from the game. Player movable pieces are received for movement along slots extending through the thickness of a playing surface but are captured by upper and lower enlargements against removal. Discreet positional stops are provided along the slots by spaced apart depressions into which a mating truncated conical portion on the movable pieces fits. In one form, a captive rotatable disc cooperates with the playing surface to permit selective opening of covers that obscure indicia matchable with indicia designating positions along a slot path.

Abstract: A racing board game for at least four players which includes a board having a plurality of sequential primary spaces indicated thereon, a starting portion and a finishing portion; a plurality of cards having word definitions appearing thereon and adapted for a chance selection of a word one at a time; a plurality of playing members having indicia thereon corresponding to each of the players; and a mechanism for determining the number of spaces to be traversed by each playing member in accordance to established game rules. The board also includes a plurality of secondary spaces that represent alternate starting spaces. The secondary spaces have indicia thereon indicative of different odds. A player beginning on one of the secondary spaces can win more money as dictated by the odds indicia then would a person who started on the starting space.

Abstract: A board game based upon the three events of the triathlon race--swimming, cycling, and running, includes a flat and substantially rectangular playing board, a plurality of playing pieces representing the participants of the event, instruction and strategy cards, and a time sheet to record the cumulative time it requires a player to move his or her playing piece through the game course. The game board is illustrated with the race course which is divided into the three events. The course is further divided into individual segments or squares each representing a segment of time and distance. The winner of the game is the player to advance his or her playing pieces through the course utilizing the least number of time segments while overcoming the obstacles inherent to the triathlon.

Abstract: Indy Class 500 is a board game for entertainment. Two or more players may participate in the game. The physical limit of participants is eight players. The object of the game is for one of the participants to be first in completing twenty laps around the game board course. Obstructions are provided in the game to cause participants uncalculable obstacles in completing the twenty laps. The game board identifies the participants actions. It is divided into twenty five numbered sections. Each section instructs the participant in what to do. Each participant selects a small race car facsimile which is used as his marker. The markers are advanced in turn by throwing of dice, which determines the number of sections the participants may advance. The game also educates the participants with historical facts relating to motor racing.

Abstract: A board racing game in which the track includes a number of shiftable straight segments positioned between adjacent fixed segments that are offset with respect with each other fixed curve segments so that the shiftable track may be aligned with either fixed segment. The rules permit a player to shift the track to either assist the advancement of the player's own racing token or to impede the progress of the opponents' tokens. Common blocking pieces movable by any player are also provided for use in impeding the progress of the racing tokens. Each player is provided with a set of cards containing various predetermined moves which the player arranges in the order the player wishes to make the moves. The sets differ from each other by the extent of movement permitted by one card in inverse relationship to the starting position of the player.

Abstract: Board game apparatus for realistically simulating the action of a sailboat race. The game board has a playing area having a plurality of movement spaces arranged over the major area thereof in a manner so as to define various possible directions of movement of a movement piece representing a sailboat, namely, the northerly, southerly, easterly, westerly, northwesterly, northeasterly, southwesterly and southeasterly directions. The apparatus further includes features for representing various factors normally encountered by a participant in an actual sailboat race such, for example, as the direction of the wind and the direction of the current. A movement direction indicator forms a part of the game board and designates the direction in which the movement piece is moving.

Abstract: A game board comprising a playing surface having indicia thereon defining an oval race track, with toy vehicles adapted to be moved around respective lanes of the track, and additional indicia on the playing surface for advancing vehicle positions, for indicating the number of laps completed by each vehicle, and for determining any of various troubles encountered during the race. Player-actuated wheelies, and means for launching same, cooperate with the indicia on the playing board, to determine the movement forward or backward of each vehicle, generally in response to the degree of skill of the player.

Abstract: A game in which players can engage in a simulated contest such as a sail boat race, a glider race or a snow buggy race, and having a set of cards layable side by side to define a course and simulated vehicles consistent with the type of race. The vehicles are moveable over the course in accordance with the particular rules of the race and the cards have markings thereon which indicate "conditions" that are likely to exist in the particular type of race.

Abstract: This invention relates to a horse racing lottery game. The apparatus for the game comprises a racetrack having a plurality of starting positions and a finish line, a plurality of game pieces supported on the track and being movable therearound, there being less game pieces than players playing the game, and a plurality of groups of tickets corresponding to the game pieces such that each group has a plurality of tickets each having indicia corresponding to only one of the game pieces and indicia enabling each ticket to be distinguished from other tickets of the same group. Each player selects tickets of his choice and places the selected tickets of each group in a separate container pertaining to the respective game piece. The tickets are then shuffled, and one ticket is drawn at random from each container, thereby indicating which of the players is assigned to each of the horses running in the race.

Abstract: A board racing game apparatus includes playing pieces and a board having arrows marked thereon forming a continuous track divided into lanes. One group of arrows provides a preferred route around the track, certain members of another group of arrows provide for lane changing on the track straightaways so that a driver may maneuver his vehicle into the race track "groove", and a third group of arrows affects movement on the track. Contiguous with the continuous track and providing for movement off and back onto the continuous track are pit stop lanes. Movement from the race track to the pit lanes is controlled.

Abstract: A horse race betting game includes a playing board with three columns, a first column representing the finish positions of the horses entered into a race, a second column representing the number of the race and a third column representing the horses which are entered into the race. The playing board also has thereon the record times for each of several track lengths. Included with the game is a relatively large number of horse race cards. These cards contain precomputed horse race finish times for a given horse by track length and track condition and also include the odds of winning for the particular horse for each track condition. The game also includes a pay-off board on which is contained the winning amounts for each denominational bet and for each of the odds for winning. Each player receives a betting envelope and three designators or flags within which envelope he places his bet and a designator as to whether he is betting the horse to win, place or show.

Abstract: A game device including a gameboard having a main playing surface and a race track or pathway designated thereon comprising a plurality of zones progressively arranged along an elliptical pathway with indicia which designates a first entrance zone for a short race and a second entrance zone for a long race; the entrance zones are separated into segments and the game includes a plurality of play pieces each to be arranged at one of the segments of one of the entrance zones; one of the zones of the track or pathway is designated as a "Finish Line;" and, additionally, chance devices are provided in the form of a pair of dice, one of the dice being conventional and the other of the dice having a word thereon which indicates whether or not the number which shows on the conventional dice is to be the number of spaces moved, whether it is to be doubled, ignored, or the play piece is to be moved reversely.

Abstract: A square gameboard has four corner squares marked at the four corners thereof and 36 boxes marked along the four edges thereof, nine boxes being marked along each edge between the corner squares thereof and a race track at the center of the gameboard. A plurality of markers are shaped as miniature horses, each being of a different color. A plurality of chips are provided of the same number and colors as the markers. A plurality of post position cards are provided. A plurality of dice of the same number and colors as the markers are provided. A pair of throwing dice, a plurality of odds chips, play money and a dice cup are also provided.