Abstract: A board game featuring a board having a removable rotatable tower having an arm extending away from it and a hook for receiving a ring hung from a string from the arm. Players move their pieces about the board. Cards may be drawn at random intervals. The player may be required to toss the ring towards the hook located on the tower. Successfully hooking the ring to the tower may affect the outcome of the player's turn. The tower may be rotated on the board, so that each player can swing the ring, depending on outcomes from the various features of the game, including the cards, dice rolls, and space locations on the game board.

Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of the methods for graphically representing a first image from an image sensor of the outside landscape superimposed on a second image representing a synthetic image of the same outside landscape, the two images being displayed on a display screen of an onboard display system for aircraft. The first image comprises three rectangular zones of increasing transparency, each zone having a width equal to that of the first image and a determined height, the sum of the three heights being equal to the height of the first image, the first zone situated at the bottom of the image having a first constant level of transparency, the third zone situated at the top of the image having a second constant level of transparency greater than the first level of transparency, the second zone situated between the first zone and the third zone having a level of transparency that is continuously variable between the first level and the second level.

Abstract: A waterfowl decoy device provides remote control to raise and lower decoys attached to a moving hub such that the decoys simulate flight. The device includes a hub and a support arm coupled to the hub. The support arm is movable relative to the hub such that a distal end of the support arm relative to the hub is selectively raised and lowered relative to a position of the hub. A decoy is coupled to the distal end of the support arm wherein raising and lowering of the distal end of the support arm imparts elevation and descent motion to the decoy. The hub is further structured to rotate the support arm imparting motion to the decoy simulating flight.

Abstract: An amusement device that includes a horizontally oriented rotating wheel having a plurality of apertures through the wheel and a release mechanism that will release game pieces from a location above the wheel is disclosed. The game can be played by exercising skill or it can be configured to result in a random outcome. In the skilled based embodiment of the invention, a user tries to time the activation of the release mechanism so that a high energy ball drops down from the release mechanism and falls through the rotating wheel. If a ball passes directly through the wheel, the ball is detected by a detector that is positioned below the wheel and an award is provided to the player. In an alternative embodiment of the device, the device is designed to release a plurality of balls which will bounce and roll on the rotating wheel until they are captured in apertures that are provided through the wheel.

Abstract: The invention is a method for augmenting images with the predicted effectiveness of ordinance deployed or dropped at a specific aim point. The method uses JMEM data to calculate the predicted effectiveness of a selected weapon over an area surrounding the aimpoint and calculates the parameters for a graphical representation of the numerical results. Predicted effectiveness is displayed onto an overhead or perspective view image by overlaying with a series of ellipses, a variable color area, a variable transparency area, or some combination of the three.

Abstract: A war gaming complex comprises a specially equipped territory (1) adapted to a war game, using aerial vehicles (6) and includes an airspace (2) for flights over the territory (1) of the complex.

Abstract: A hollow golf ball having good shot feel at the time of hitting, while maintaining excellent flight performance, wherein the hollow golf ball has a hollow core having a hollow portion and one or more hollow core outer layers formed thereon, the hollow core outer layers having a core composition containing rubber, a resin or a mixture thereof, and a cover formed on the hollow core, and wherein the hollow portion has a diameter of 5 to 25 mm, the hollow core outer layer has a surface hardness of 71 to 91 in JIS-C hardness and a deformation amount of 2.0 to 3.5 mm when applying from an initial load of 10 kgf to a final load of 130 kgf on the core.

Abstract: A toy catapult includes a frame and an elongate arm. One end of the arm includes a wheel that is rotatable on an axis defined by a bar of the frame. The other end of the arm includes a ball holder. An arm-protection member is also circumferentially attached to the arm near its middle. The frame includes dual block members, each having a post member extending vertically from it, and a stop member positioned between the post members. Interposing the block members is a lever arm with a wheel-engagement member for holding the arm in tensed, or cocked position. Tension is caused by a flexible bias member which attaches to the arm and to a hook positioned on the frame and located forward of the wheel.

Abstract: An in-ground pool with an inflatable flange and a non-rigid flexible body to permit the body to conform to the interior surface of a hole. The pool is designed with an exterior circumferential flange which is placed around the ledge of a hole dug in sand or soil which positions the body of the pool over the interior surface of the hole. The pool may then be filled with water with the interior surface of the hole acting as lateral support for the pool. The flange is secured to the ground with stakes which engage the flange and are driven into the ground around the exterior perimeter of the flange. When it is desired to remove the pool, the water is removed and the flange deflated so that the pool may be folded for storage and/or transport.

Abstract: A method for playing a targeting game including launching aimed objects toward targeted receptacles until aimed objects are deposited in all targeted receptacles except a home receptacle. The player who deposits aimed objects into all of his targeted receptacles and further deposits and aimed object in the home receptacle wins the game or round depending on the format of play. Targeting game apparatus includes a target base containing holes which are the targeted receptacles and a target line panel spaced vertically above the base from which the aimed objects are aimed and dropped.

Abstract: A game of skill includes a lighted circular target intended to simulate the sun. A joystick is used to manipulate a crane mechanism and buttons are provided to allow the crane mechanism to be lowered and raised with an included magnet being used to allow lifting and dropping of magnetically attractive disks. The object of the game is to lift each disk, in turn, and to manipulate the joystick to cause disks to be dropped onto the simulated solar target surface to cover as high a percentage of the solar target surface as possible. An indicator is provided to indicate how much of the solar target surface has been covered, and a timer display displays the elapsed time.

Abstract: Amusement apparatus is disclosed, comprising a number of targets (2) located beneath at least one striker (16) and means (4) for providing relative movement between the two, the or each striker being operatively connected to a user activated mechanism (20) whereby the or each striker may be caused by the user to approach the targets, the targets being operatively connected to a reward mechanism whereby should a striker hit a particular target the reward mechanism is triggered.

Abstract: A bombardier game with housing for sighting a target and supporting releasable bombs comprising a housing formed in a generally rectangular configuration which has a rear end with holes to be held adjacent the eyes of the player and a laterally extending forty-five degree mirror for functioning as a periscope for looking downward to the target therebeneath. The housing also has a remote end with a plurality of apertures for receiving a plurality of bombs to be dropped. The housing also has triggers with springs with the lower ends of the triggers in contact with the bombs supported within the apertures. The triggers have upper exposed ends to be pulled by the player to release an associated bomb with the spring adapted to urge its associated trigger into the locking position against its associated bomb.

Abstract: A frisbee disk and ball drop assembly comprising a circular frisbee disk having a convex outer wall and an inner concave wall, and a ball drop assembly carried on the wall of the frisbee disk at its center for dropping a ball from the concave wall of the disk when in flight on command from a remote control transmitter operated by a person on the ground. An object is to see how close the ball can be dropped to a preselected target on the groung.