Abstract: A game in which a game board is provided on which is depicted plural routes of attack against defenders of the Alamo. In the case of each attacker the game is played in three phases of play. The chances of the defender in defense of the Alamo are different for each of the three phases of play. An attacker must progress through the siege phase and through the assault phase before attaining the last stand phase. Each route of attack against the Alamo consists of a series of squares along which an attacker moves, certain of the squares bearing indicia indicating a procedure or happening to which the attacker may be subjected. The defender and each attacker is initially supplied with a plurality of markers each representing a person or soldier. Advances of the attackers are controlled by throws of dice, and loss of persons or soldiers in each defending and attacking force is controlled by throws of dice.

Abstract: An action strategy game device includes a base having a playing surface defining a plurality of play areas on opposite sides for supporting one or more playing pieces of opposing players. A plurality of playing pieces are adapted for movement around the play areas between a back line and a front line thereof toward an opposing player's area are provided and the playing pieces normally stand upright on the base until knocked down when struck by a moving missile or cannon ball released or fired by an opposing player. Cannon balls are provided for firing along paths determined by the players and reaimed to knock down an opponent's upstanding playing pieces. The cannon balls are secured to one end of an elongated elastic member such as a rubber band which is securable to the base of the game device between the play areas. A notched wall structure is provided along the back line of each player for holding the cannon balls in place at selected positions along the back line with the elastic member under tension.

Abstract: A game apparatus simulating interplanetary space travel includes: a planar playing board having a first circuitous path of player movement around the periphery of the playing board and a plurality of player landing sites or areas therealong representing various charted and identifiable locations and events which may occur along the way, and a second circuitous inner, chance determined alternate path of player movement intersecting said first path at a plurality of spaced points and having a plurality of player landing sites therealong representing events which may occur in unexplored and often hostile locations; a segmented, multi-purpose, chance instructional dial with a conventional spinner device randomly determines player movement or events which occur along the first and second paths of travel according to printed indicia within the individual segments of the dial. Instructions for further spaceship movement or player action are printed on each of the aforementioned player landing sites.

Abstract: A tactical war game and method for playing same featuring a multipart geomorphic playing board and detailed 1/285 scale vehicles or weapons in which each particular game piece has performance data established for it and the play of the game involves maneuvering and imaginary exchange of fire between the opposing game pieces utilizing this performance data.

Abstract: A board game combining both skill and chance including a plurality of playing pieces provided with rotatably mounted carriages having surfaces thereof provided with multiple indicia indicating the number of moves that the playing pieces are permitted to make and magnets, a playing surface divided into a plurality of contiguous areas on which the playing pieces are positioned and along which the playing pieces move, and a plurality of magnets positioned below the playing surface and arranged in a pre-determined pattern to attract the magnets of the playing pieces to rotate the carriages and the indicia different degrees as the playing pieces are moved from one area to another so as to continuously change the number of moves that the same playing pieces may make depending on their positions on the playing surface.