Abstract: A basketball game which can be played in bed by a sick person for exercise. The basketball hoop is secured to the backboard by use of integral end supports which fit into spaced spring-like fingers. The back of the hoop has a downwardly extending integral support which prevents the hoop from falling below a horizontal position perpendicular to the backboard. The hoop has a slot in the front and the net is slit so that a ball attached to a line can pass through the hoop and the line can pass through the slot and slit so that the player can retrieve the ball. The backboard is supported by a base which has frontward extending pieces that will fit between a mattress and spring for supporting the backboard and hoop in an upright position.

Abstract: Game apparatus in which a pawl and ratchet mechanism indexes a game card to bring successive game indicia to a viewing opening, said indicia comprising intelligible indicia interspersed with unintelligible indicia, said intelligible indicia being intelligible only when viewed through a colored filter in said opening, the game being played by teams of two players, one of whom views said indicia and gives the other player clues for identifying the information in the indicia.