Abstract: A toy game apparatus including a game playing board with a retaining wall extending around the playing board for retaining a playing surface of complex curvature with a pair of spaced apart recessed goals located at low areas in the playing board and with the game board having inclined walls leading from the center of the board and the periphery of the board to the pair of recessed goals. In this way, the portions of the game board surrounding the goal areas converge downwardly and inwardly toward the recessed goals so that a playing piece on the game board can enter the goals through arcuate paths and at any point around the entire periphery of the goals and from any direction. A goal cup is rotatably mounted in each of the goal recesses and a striker member is operatively connected to the goal cup for rotation therewith.

Abstract: A game board divided into a series of playing spaces which are arranged in a preselected pattern and which are capable of being selectively illuminated during the playing of a game with playing pieces movable on the board. The playing spaces are illuminated by a series of control switches which are mounted at each of four playing spaces extending outwardly from opposite sides of the game board and which correspond in number and arrangement to the playing spaces as viewed from each playing station. A circuit connects the control switches in pairs in such a manner as to cause a playing space to be illuminated when an odd number of control switches for that space are in the on position and to prevent a space from being illuminated when an even number of control switches for that space are in the on position.

Abstract: An action batter up game apparatus consisting of a baseball affixed at one end of a lengthy nylon cord having a flexible handle affixed to the opposite end, and with there being an elongated hollow open ended cylindrical slide control disposed intermediate the handle and baseball and having the cord passing therethrough.

Abstract: The game utilizes a board containing a map of the world divided radially into a series of zones. The cards used each contain the name of a nation and the flag of a different nation. Each player is assigned zones of play, and during his turn places face up and plays any card in his hand as to which he can identify on the map a country in his zone of play which corresponds to the name of a nation or flag of nation on the card. A pin is placed on the board and the portion of the card played covered to indicate that the play has been made. Each player can play the other portion of a card already played if the nation represented is in his zone of play. The card deck also contains cards which, when played, change the assigned zones of play.

Abstract: A word-spelling game uses a plurality of lettered tiles. The face of each tile is marked with two letters of the alphabet in such a way that each letter is recognizable as being from one of two sets. Some of the tiles are marked with two different letters, and other tiles are marked with two identical letters.

Abstract: This invention is a mini-dome basketball game including an enclosure structure resembling a basketball court having an actuator structure with a plurality of actuator flipper members operable to contact a ball member to propell the same upwardly and forwardly towards a basket member to simulate a basketball game. The playing area is enclosed by a clear plastic dome to maintain the ball member therewithin and includes a score device mounted on the enclosure means operable to keep score between the players similar to a regulation basketball game. The actuator flipper members includes one for each of the two players and a third free-throw zone to propell the ball member toward the basket member in free-throw situations.

Abstract: This device is a three dimensional wildcat oil drilling game having a three dimensional game board, the surface of the game board having various identified geograhical sub areas, or sections, each sub area or section having a plurality of perforations therein, a sub stratum device mounted within the game board, beneath the game board surface, and a random stratum rotating device extending through the game board. A spinner wheel is provided for chance selection of the geographical sections. There is also provided a plurality of barrel symbols, each having a peg extending therefrom for placement in peg boards for keeping a record of the value of a player's oil holdings. Identified exploration cards are provided for indicating title rights to various wells.

Abstract: A game set comprises a board having indicia which relate to indicia on individual pieces which can be associated with the board. There is an interconnection between the pieces and electrical impulse means also associated with the board whereby if the pieces are placed in incorrect positions on the board the impulse means will respond, such as by actuating a buzzer. The connections are identical, but the pieces need not be.

Abstract: A game apparatus for playing matching games involving colored pegs wherein two players, one on each of the sides of the apparatus will select four pegs of color and place them in a particular sequence unknown to his opponent. A game board provided has apertures for receiving pegs in horizontal rows so that each player can mark on the game board the peg color and sequence arrangement he guesses to be the arrangement selected by his opponent. The game board then is rotated 180.degree. and each player checks his opponent's lineup of pegs and indicates on the board with additional marking pegs whether the opponent matched the player's colors and/or mated the position of the player's pegs. The board is then rotated 180.degree. again and each player again attempts to deduce or guess the opponent's colors and mate the order of colors on a different line of apertures. Play continues until one player matches both the colors and the order of colors of his opponent.

Abstract: A miniature tennis game apparatus includes a small simulated tennis court, a tennis ball suspended by a wire from an overhead mast and at least one hand manipulatable figure on each side of the simulated tennis court. The tennis ball is situated at one end of a pivotal lever arm the other end of which is counterbalanced by an adjustable counterweight. By adjusting the counterweight and the arm coupling, it is possible to change the speed and trajectory of the ball. The ball may be hit from one side of the court to the other through the use of the tennis figures which are manipulated by a rotatable push rod.

Abstract: An electrical circuit board game having a casing, a playing surface provided on the casing, a plurality of openings within the playing surface that are spaced apart from each other a uniform distance and arranged in a pre-determined pattern, indicia on the surface arranged in connecting relationship between adjacent of the openings, the indicia designating in part certain open junctions or potential connections in an electrical circuit, a supporting surface within the casing positioned below the playing surface, a plurality of separated, electrically conductive strips mounted on the supporting surface such that a portion of one of the strips is positioned directly below each of the openings in the playing surface, the strips being arranged such that the path between adjacent of certain of the openings defines a potential connection between adjacent of the strips, an electrical signal and a source of electrical energy connected to two of the plurality of conductive strips at opposite ends of the supporting sur

Abstract: A chess or checker board has individual blocks for each square enclosed by a raisable normally recessed lattice or egg-crate structure.

Abstract: This disclosure pertains to a modified checker game apparatus utilizing a conventional playing board in combination with two sets of playing pieces, including playing pieces having a cavity portion in the uppermost lateral surface thereof. A piggy-back type add-on playing piece attachment is removably and partially fitted within the cavity, providing thereby increased versatility in the game rules involving the game of checkers. Stacking structure is provided so that the cavity equipped playing pieces may be nested, one above the other, upon the removal of the add-on playing piece attachment from the lowermost playing piece.

Abstract: Transparent marker pieces for use on a game board such as the game of Bingo and the like contain magnetically permeable material so that they can be quickly and easily gathered up from the game board with a magnet attached, for example, to a pencil or pen used by the player and then simply wiped off the pencil and deposited in a container for the marker pieces. In the preferred construction, the magnetically permeable material in the marker does not substantially block the view through the marker of the game board beneath and so, the transparent quality of the marker is maintained.

Abstract: A game apparatus comprising a game board having a substantially flat upper surface with a quarter score point differential indicator of a football game placed on the upper surface. A game point selector is placed on the upper surface and comprises an indicator mounted to the board, and a down and distance character zone placed on the board, each down and distance character zone being correlated to the quarter score point differential indicator of the football game, and containing down and distance characters representing the down of a football game and the yards needed to obtain a first down for the down. A run and pass character zone with associated numerical values is placed on the board surface, the indicator being adapted to be moved in a direction corresponding to the particular down and distance needed for a first down of a football game to designate a numerical value for a selection of a particular run and pass character, the designated numerical value accounting for the scoring of the game apparatus.

Abstract: A multiple bingo card for playing up to four bingo games simultaneously while only using a single card therefor. The arrangement of this card is such that what would normally constitute one space on such a card is divided into four quadrants which are color coded with the quadrants of all the other bingo spaces being correspondingly color coded. That is, all of the upper left hand corner quadrants of each conventional bingo space would be of one color, all the lower right corner quadrants being of another color, etc. A marker chip for use with the card may be of neutral or a contrasting color and in the form of a washer-like or doughnut-shaped disc. These discs will permit the color coding of the quadrants of the card as well as the number in the center thereof to be clearly visible. In another embodiment four sets of color coded chips are provided to enable the player to cover the corresponding colored quadrant with corresponding colored chips.

Abstract: A multi-level edifice for playing a three-dimensional word game whose object is to gain the highest score in forming words having a fixed number of letters with the highest point value. The edifice is constituted by a set of transparent platforms equal in number to the fixed number and supported one above the other by corner posts. Each platform is provided with a uniform array of playing sites equal in number to the square of the fixed number, some sites being "free," the others being adapted to accept playing chips bearing different letters associated with numerals representing different point values. Words are formed in a straight line on any platform level or levels on the playing edifice.

Abstract: An educational game for playing a game of skill and judgment, the game comprising, at least one game board divided into a plurality of rows and columns of four in number, a plurality of numbered tokens for placing at each of the sixteen spaces defined on the game board by the rows and columns, each of said game boards having a numerical solution, the solution being 38 as obtained by addition of the numbered tokens on the board after all spaces are filled, the addition being in any desired direction of any four of the tokens in abutting relationship or in squares. In playing the game, numerical tokens are selected and placed on the game board until all spaces on each player's board are filled, the object of the game being to obtain the correct solution indicated for that particular game. Optionally, random number selector means may be used to select the order of playing the numbered tokens.

Abstract: A competitive board game in which two playing boards are used and a set of 117 tiles for placement upon the playing boards, the playing boards having spaces where the tiles are to be placed, some of the tiles having arithmetic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division symbols while other of the tiles have the numerical digits, the game using arithmetic so to be played.

Abstract: A multifunctional outdoor folding chair comprising two generally U-shaped open frames, one major and outer and the other minor and inner, braced pivotally one within the other to support a detachable seat which, in turn, supports pivotally a detachable back panel. The two frames are braced at points generally midway between the ends of the paired cross legs thereof by a common fastener. Rows of bosses under the seat serve to connect with locking channels on the planar top portions of the two frames, and the chair height can be adjusted by choosing the appropriate boss row for connection with the major frame. A storage chamber is attached between the leg portions of the minor frame adjacent the lower ends, and another storage shelf is built onto the undersurface of the seat. The back panel, by means of angle joints at the rear end thereof, is mounted onto the seat through locking slits thereon. Different game board patterns are printed on the top of the seat, and on the back and the front of the back panel.