Abstract: Playing apparatus basically in the form of a board with movable inserts or indicators for playing a game of simulated golf. The apparatus or board includes a simulated fairway with measured distances and inserts to indicate the positions of the golf balls of various players. Additional insert members are provided that can be placed or fitted into side slots at the sides of the fairway to indicate the presence of hazards, such as water hazards, etc. Movable inserts are provided to simulate a green which may be adjustable in size. The play is accomplished by way of a chart having a plurality of columns, different columns being identified to simulate different clubs. In the columns are numbers representing yardages which may be realized. Adjacent columns are provided having numbers corresponding to numbers that a player may get by way of chance means, such as by throwing dice. Indicator members are provided to be associated with the chance numbers.

Abstract: A game for two or more players wherein there is a relationship between the playing pieces and the spots and pathways of the playing surface, all of which are made up of an index or an arrangement of indicia, with this said relationship being between the indicia and governed by predetermined rules. On certain of the playing surface spots, there may be placed a plurality of removable and interchangeable elements with each element carrying an indicium different from the other elements. Each playing piece may carry one or more indicium differing from other of the playing pieces and corresponding to an indicium on a removable element. Each playing piece may also removably carry an indicium indicative of ownership by one of the players. The playing pieces are strategically moved from spot to spot, and the game rules may provide for capture of a playing piece by an opponent's piece if it carries an indicium having a higher value in a predetermined hierarchy of indicia.

Abstract: A word forming game comprising a game board having three peripheral slides and an open side adapted to receive therebetween crossword puzzle inserts. The upper surface of two of the slides are numbered from thirteen to one. The crossword inserts have open squares to be filled in with play pieces marked with various letters to be inserted in the squares to provide definitions for words appearing in the puzzles. Also provided are score sheets to keep track of the players performance. The numbering on the slides also indicates points won by a player for placing the right letters in the correct squares in response to a puzzle question.

Abstract: Apparatus for indicating color by the sense of touch, which said apparatus is in the form of a game comprising a playing board with playing holes in it and at least two sets of playing pieces, the playing pieces in each said set each having a different shape, and each different shape representing a different color whereby blind, color blind and partially sighted persons can play said game with sighted persons and because said blind, color blind and partially sighted persons can determine color by feeling the shape of the playing pieces they can refer to the color of the playing pieces and are thus not placed at a psychological disadvantage to said sighted persons who play said game by referring to the color of said playing pieces.

Abstract: A chess game apparatus is provided having a playing board of tray-like construction and a number of playing pieces of cube-shape which are cooperatively and selectively interarranged to form both the playing surface and the game pieces. The apparatus game board includes a supporting surface having a peripheral upstanding edge wall and a spring biased retainer bar for securing the several playing pieces in relatively fixed array on the board. A number of the playing pieces are provided with the indicia of the several chess pieces. Three of the six sides of each cube-shaped playing pieces are of one color background while the other three sides are of a different color, such as black and white, so that the playing pieces can simulate and function as the alternately colored squares of a playing board. Several selected pieces function as the actual game pieces with two or more sides of each of these cubes provided with appropriate indicia for the respective indicia of a particular game piece.

Abstract: A game is provided which includes a game board having a first planar member representative of the sea, with the upper edge of the first planar member representing the horizon. A second planar member, representing a ship, is pivotally mounted to the first planar member in essentially co-planar relationship therewith, so that as the second planar member is turned about its pivot axis, the ship represented thereby moves behind the first planar member and thereby sinks below the surface of the sea. The second planar member also has a rescue ship inscribed thereon, so that when the second planar member is fully turned through 180.degree., so as to position the first ship behind the first planar member, the rescue ship is revealed on the horizon. The game board also includes a third planar member adjacent the upper edge thereof and in essentially co-planar relationship therewith, and which is clipped to the first planar member. The third planar member represents the sky.

Abstract: A game board having opposed parallel major surfaces including a plurality of playing fields in row and column array is disclosed. The playing fields are mounted on a mesh formed of mutually perpendicular elongated support members interconnected to provide a plurality of generally square openings in which the playing fields are received with each playing field swingably attached along the same side thereof only to the adjacent one of a parallel set of support members, of the mesh. A plurality of game pieces each comprising a pair of indicia bearing bodies joined to each other at one of their ends are also provided. The board and pieces are so constructed as to enable the pieces to be received on a playing field with indicia bearing bodies of each piece extending in juxtaposed parallel relation to an opposed major surface of the playing field.

Abstract: A mathematical based board game apparatus employs a matrix grid game board containing a playing area defined by a plurality of grid units each capable of containing a game playing piece. In the playing area, the placement or removal of a plurality of regular game playing pieces takes place in accordance with logically defined move patterns, such as straight chains, +-shapes, X-shapes, S-shapes, etc., or various combinations thereof. During alternating designated turns the players completely cover, or uncover if the inverse of the game is played, all of the grid units defining the ultimate playing area to determine the winner of the game. A plurality of different overlays for the game board are provided, with changeable superimpositions of various overlays being utilized, if desired, to vary the size and/or configuration of the initially exposed game playing area. Blocking pieces are also provided which are deployable prior to the playing of the game to further define the exposed game playing area.

Abstract: There is disclosed a board game. The board itself has three tracks with a plurality of interconnecting segments therebetween. A group of switches is provided, each adapted to be placed on the board in the region of one of the interconnecting segments. The switches serve to define an operative path from a start point to a finish point which includes selected segments of the tracks. Each player has a set of value pieces and the players take turns and alternately place their value pieces on random ones of a set of identifiable positions on the tracks. Thereafter, the players take turns and alternately place the switches on the board on a random basis until a complete operative path is defined. A marble is then rolled down the path to expose the values of the player pieces which it passes, and the players add up their respective sources.

Abstract: A board game comprising a multiple layer game board the top two layers of which are separable but maintained in registration and several sets of playing pieces, each set distinguishable from the other. The top layer is transparent and has an array of playing positions marked on it. The second layer carries indicia which can be seen through the top layer and which influence the placing of playing pieces on the game board in accordance with the rules. The third layer and the playing pieces are magnetically attracted to one another thus securing the pieces placed on the game board against moving out of place. The playing pieces are stackable and a stacked piece is mechanically or magnetically secured to the piece upon which it rests. The game played in accordance with the rules described is a remarkable simulation of auto racing and closely duplicates the physical laws of motion and the natural effects of speed, acceleration and momentum.

Abstract: A multi-tier game board upon which games such as chess and checkers may be played with the usual playing pieces and under the usual rules. The game board includes a first tier of square ring configuration having 28 playing squares, a second tier of square ring configuration having 20 playing squares, a third tier of square ring configuration having 12 playing squares and a fourth tier of square planar configuration having 4 playing squares. The four tiers may be nestingly positioned with respect to each other to provide a conventional 64 square playing board or may be vertically displaced and vertically aligned with respect to each other to provide a three dimensional game board.

Abstract: A board game called "Airborne" includes a game board having an upper surface, wherein a square pattern of 64 boxes is contained on the upper surface. The latticework of upraised strips on the said game board form the perimeter of each box or guide-line square, wherein the individual forms can be placed. The said individual forms, once placed, so as to cover the upper surface of the game board, form the total playing surface of different-sized square and rectangle forms. Innumerable different playing surfaces or patterns can be created as a result of the individual forms being juxtaposed and then some or all of the aforesaid forms can be removed and replaced by different forms and/or some or all of the forms can be removed and replaced by the same forms in different juxtaposition. Two sets of eight movable playing units are contained on and move on the playing surface of square and rectangle forms, wherein the movable units engage and capture each other.

Abstract: A board type amusement game particularly adapted for play by children is disclosed. The games includes a plurality of generally cubical game pieces which have at least three different indicia, preferably colors, on separate surfaces thereof. Also included is a generally rectangular, three dimensional game board having a plurality of recesses on a major surface thereof. Each recess of the game board is adapted to receive a game piece such that the top surface of the game piece is visible. The surface of the game board has indicia thereon for indicating paths between adjacent recesses. The game further includes a plurality of movement pieces, each having an indicium thereon corresponding to one of the indicia on the game pieces and chance means for determining allowable movement of the movement pieces on the game board.