Abstract: A game board apparatus for four players in which each player moves pieces through four groups of positions in conflict with the movements of the other players.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for playing a game by posing a question to a player to elicit one of several possible responses, each of the possible responses having an answer value differing from answer values of other responses, the answer value of the selected answer determining the player's change of position in the game.The questions presented may relate a dream and its context, and require the player to select one of several possible interpretations. His playing position is adjusted in proportion to the accuracy of the selected interpretation.The questions presented may be broken into subsets, each subset comprising questions of comparable difficulty. The subset from which the question for that playing turn will be taken may be determined in such manner that the likelihood of selecting a subset with questions of higher difficulty is smaller than the likelihood of selecting a subset with questions of lower difficulty.

Abstract: A game apparatus is disclosed in which distinguishable sets of playing pieces are provided and with each player of the game receiving one of the sets for movement on the playing surface, which is divided into a grid-like array of spaces defining a path for movement of the pieces in either a horizontal or vertical direction. A plurality of corner starting zones to provide each player of the game with designated spaces for initial positioning of one of the sets therein is provided, as well as a plurality of distinguishable finishing zones to provide each player of the game with designated spaces to reach in order to win the game. A chance device is operable by players of the game apparatus for determining the possible number of spaces a particular playing piece shall move along the playing surface for movement from the starting zones to the finishing zones.

Abstract: A game played by two persons, namely a player and an opponent player. Each player has an equal plurality of playing pieces, and each player has alternate turns at manipulating a plurality of discrete identification elements bearing symbols, e.g. a pair of dice, and continuing his turn as long as the symbols can be used, either separately or in combination, to move his or his opponent's playing pieces on a playing board in correspondence to the symbols on the identification elements. The object of the game is to get all the playing pieces of the player or opponent player into certain positions on the playing board, and the multiple choice strategy entails a player moving his own playing pieces either towards the preestablished finish position or positions, or moving his opponent player's pieces back from a final position or positions. The multiple choice strategy evolves from the novel method of steps and alternate choice involved in the game.

Abstract: A game is provided having a game board which represents the sea off a bathing resort. The sea is divided into a number of playing spaces each of which are differently numbered. At one end of the board is a large home beach where players are safe and out at sea are four airbeds from which play is started. There are five playing pieces one in the form of a shark and four in the form of swimmers: Each of the swimmers has two removable legs. Several of the playing spaces are chance positions and the game includes two chance cards bearing adverse or favorable instructions respectively. The instructions are in the form of cartoons.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game comprising a game board having a playing area comprising a plurality of playing positions arranged in regular array, and sets of opposed playing pieces adapted to be moved within the playing area on the playing positions. The playing area including opposed starting/finishing positions and including indicating devices which are adapted, upon actuation of operating controls connected thereto, to indicate whether a playing piece may move within the playing area. The apparatus also includes a determining device to determine the number of playing positions to be moved by a playing piece.

Abstract: A game including a game board with plural playing tracks each having multiple contiguous rows of spaces to which multiple game pieces can be moved by each of several players in response to the rolling of dice, the pieces bearing number indicia and being movable toward and ultimately into scoring positions whereat their numbers are added together until one player achieves a winning predetermined aggregate score.

Abstract: A presidential election game in which the fifty states and the District of Columbia are divided into color coordinated zones with a magnetized score device for each player to record the changing number of popular and/or electoral college votes that each player has accumulated until a winner is elected and becomes the President of The United States of America.

Abstract: An apparatus for playing an educational and entertaining game concerning the use of a matrix and astrology which includes a game board having a plurality of circularly consecutively arranged segments. Each of said plurality of segments is identified with either a sign of the zodiac, a starting segment, an astrological element or a neutral segment. The segments identified with the signs of the zodiac are further identified with one of the characteristics of the particular sign of the zodiac. A means of chance and a playing piece for each player of the game is provided. A plurality of cards is provided with there being one card for each combination of a zodiac sign and characteristic. A score card is provided for each player.

Abstract: A baseball game includes a board having a playing surface with upstanding walls attached to marginal edges thereof forming a fence, markings on the surface to simulate a baseball field, and simulated players on the surface at infield and outfield positions of the field. A bat in the form of an L-shaped member is located at the home plate position with one leg thereof having a lower surface resting on the playing surface and another leg thereof extending downwardly through an opening provided in the board. A launcher for a ball to be played extends toward the bat and rests at one end on the playing surface and between opposite ends on an upper edge of one of the fence walls. The ball may therefore be batted as the downwardly extending leg of the bat is rotated about its central axis so as to swing the one leg through a batting movement.

Abstract: A game apparatus is disclosed which includes a playing board or mat having a playing surface with a plurality of trails leading from a starting point to an ending point where "Bigfoot" is captured. This playing surface is combined with movable playing pieces, the movement of which is governed by the elements of chance incorporated into a subsidiary card game. This card game generates the number of spaces which the moving piece may move forward by matching cards having displayed thereon a left foot print with cards having displayed thereon a right foot print. Additionally, bonus and wild cards are provided.

Abstract: A golf game apparatus in combination with a conventional pool table is provided by the present invention in which the skills developed in playing the game of pool are utilized in a simulated golf course environment including contoured golf greens, sand and water hazards, tees and flags, the object being to direct an object ball using a cue ball and cue stick as in the play of pool, from a designated tee area around the playing surface to a correspondingly designated golf cup or pocket, while avoiding the hazards randomly disposed on the playing surface as in the play of natural golf.

Abstract: A game simulating the outdoor game of golf. Game equipment, to accommodate one to eight players, includes 18 playing boards simulating respective hole areas on a golf course, two hazard, green and putt spinners, eight dice, nine playing pieces, eight stroke counters, a plurality of skill cards, usually 120, and two re-usable score cards, two score pencils, and two score card sloths to remove pencil markings on the score cards. The game pieces, equipment, playing boards, and indicia and markings are engineered in accordance with laws of mathematical probability such that realistic scores are obtained as though the players were actually on a golf course. Thus, close correlation and simulation of actual conditions, objects and scores, is achieved, this by virtue of the relationship and correlation of physical materials and components with printed indicia.

Abstract: A game of strategy of chance having a board with a major surface constituting a playing surface thereof having indicia corresponding to a plurality of blocks of equal dimensions. Each of the larger blocks is subdivided into four smaller blocks. A plurality of playing pieces are provided for the players. These playing pieces are representative of moveable weapon systems that can be moved and turned on by the players upon payment of certain monetary amounts. Play money is provided for such payments. The play money is a plurality of monetary elements of different monetary values. The playing pieces also include fixed targets. The pieces representative of moveable weapon system have seven different configurations representative of seven different types of weapon systems each of which has an effective range of fire and the playing pieces corresponding to weapon systems fire upon targets constituting other weapon systems or some of the fixed targets. Firing takes place after a move.

Abstract: A space travel game with game board having a primary path of movement and auxiliary paths connected with the primary path. A spinner apparatus is divided into numbered pie-shaped wedges of alternating colors and controls the amount and direction of travel. The paths comprise interconnected series of blocks, the blocks being grouped into alternating series of different colors. The pointer of the spinner indicates the number of blocks to be traveled and the color of the path to be taken upon reaching an intersection of a primary path with an auxiliary path. Game pieces shaped in the form of spaceships, different groups of cards, and a separate chance control device are involved in the playing of the game.

Abstract: A game apparatus including a game board having a plurality of playing zones defining a circumferential path of travel around the board, each zone containing a respective designation of a discipline of learning. A roulette-type spinning wheel is positioned in the center of the gameboard and includes individual sections containing both numeric designations for providing the direction and magnitude of movement along the playing zones, as well as providing game instructions including references to various income opportunities. A plurality of playing pieces are included for use by the participants in moving around the path of travel. Groups of cards are included, wherein each group is associated with either a respective one of the disciplines of learning or a respective one of the income opportunities. Each card includes a statement or a question and answer with a corresponding dollar amount of income or expense. Financial instruments are also included such as play money, bonds and checks.

Abstract: A game simulating trucking activities with use of simulated Citizens Band Radio (CB) communications and chance in traversing a game board. Truck loads are carried from east to west and west to east across a game board simulating the continental USA and sequential advancement is made by throwing dice or using a spinner.

Abstract: A board game in which two players have facing sets of numbered pieces, each piece of each player being capable of capturing a predetermined number of the other player's pieces in accordance with their numerical values. Each turn consists of a player capturing those pieces which he can, removing the captured and capturing pieces from play, and then making a "move." A move involves a player re-positioning one of his pieces which remain in play in his line of pieces. The type of move taken by a player is determined by the roll of a die.

Abstract: A golf game in which a game board is provided on which to determine a wind-condition for play and to mark and record player decisions relative to club selection, method of aiming, and the type shot that will be made. A plurality of fairways are provided on cards or boards preferably simulating an actual golf course i.e., there could be nine boards with a fairway on each side of the board simulating the eighteen fairways of an actual golf course. Each fairway board is marked to show the area, distance marker, selected terrain features, and areas that are possible landing sites for shot balls. The greens are color-coded for the purpose of defining putt difficulty. Before teeing off, a player spins the wind vane to determine the wind condition with which he must cope, then with reference to the fairway board, he chooses a club, the point of aim, and the type shot. These decisions are punched on to a calculator and totaled.

Abstract: An assembly to play golf on a game board and characterized by using die-like polyhedrons which are each marked on the faces thereof with indicia defining playing directions cooperatively associated with the polyhedron to indicate achieved move or results corresponding to those of a real golf game. Each polyhedron and the indicia thereon are cooperatively associated to define substantially the same proportional likelihood of achieving any particular result as in a real golf game at the tee, along the fairway, and on the green. This is achieved by the assembly comprising separate polyhedrons for driving, for the fairway, and for putting, and such that any polyhedron is shaped and marked to respect the above-mentioned proportional likelihood upon operative throwing thereof. The polyhedrons include a largest polyhedron of 50 faces, an intermediate polyhedron of 26 faces and a smallest polyhedron of 12 faces.