Abstract: This invention relates to a horse racing lottery game. The apparatus for the game comprises a racetrack having a plurality of starting positions and a finish line, a plurality of game pieces supported on the track and being movable therearound, there being less game pieces than players playing the game, and a plurality of groups of tickets corresponding to the game pieces such that each group has a plurality of tickets each having indicia corresponding to only one of the game pieces and indicia enabling each ticket to be distinguished from other tickets of the same group. Each player selects tickets of his choice and places the selected tickets of each group in a separate container pertaining to the respective game piece. The tickets are then shuffled, and one ticket is drawn at random from each container, thereby indicating which of the players is assigned to each of the horses running in the race.

Abstract: A top and spinning mechanism, the top having an enlarged body portion and a stub base portion with an irregular configuration for coacting with a sleeve member of a top spinning mechanism, the sleeve member being configured for releasably receiving therein the stub base portion, rotation of the sleeve member rotating the top with a release lever on the top spinning mechanism manually operable for axially sliding the sleeve out of engagement with the base portion with the release lever having an arm member contacting the body of the top for directing the top onto a playing surface.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a board game, the apparatus comprising a board (2) with a playing surface marked with a first array of parallel rows (3) of playing positions (1), and a second array of parallel rows (4) of playing positions (1) extending transversely to the first array of rows (3) and with common playing positions where the rows of the two arrays cross over one another. At least some of the rows (3, 4) are sub-divided by barriers (7) into sections (3, 4) of playing positions (1). Four distinguishable sets of playing pieces are provided, each playing piece having one of a number of different indicia thereon. The indicia are arranged to form a predetermined sequence, the playing pieces of each set having the same group of indicia and at least a majority of the indicia being duplicated in each set.

Abstract: A non-visual ball and paddle game played through the medium of sound. Ball location, paddle position and playing field are defined by variations of volume, tone, pitch, frequency and stereo separation by means of stereo earphones worn by each player.

Abstract: This invention relates to a board game apparatus of the type wherein each player moves a plurality of playing pieces over the playing board from respective designated starting spaces to corresponding designated destination spaces. Located between the starting spaces and the destination spaces is a grid of longitudinally and laterally contiguous playing spaces, with certain of the playing spaces being designated as "safe" spaces for each player, and with the safe spaces for one player differing from those of another player. The safe spaces are so arranged that a player can take a relatively direct but unsafe path from his starting space to his destination space, or if desired, he can take a somewhat longer but safer path from his starting space to his destination space.

Abstract: One end of an upper frame carrying an occupant station of a simulated vehicle is mounted on a base frame to pivot about a vertical axis, and a dummy steering wheel at the occupant station is linked to pivot the upper frame. Combined rotary and translation bearings support the other end of the upper frame on a shaft carried on the base frame to accommodate the pivotal movement about the vertical axis and also to provide a small upward pitching of the upper frame during pivoting of the upper frame in either direction from a central position, so that gravity acts to restore the upper frame and the steering wheel to centered conditions.

Abstract: A multiple game assembly that can be carried in a player's pocket is provided. A plurality of game boards are contained within the housing assembly and an exterior indicator can select any specific game. When the housing assembly is open the preselected game board is automatically positioned in an operative mode. Each game sheet includes a magnetizable substrate that is capable of retaining magnetic game pieces.

Abstract: A game switch particularly useful as a bingo table used by a bingo caller has greatly increased reliability over conventional microswitch actuated tables. A matrix of conductive flexible strips are used, whereby when a ball is depressed at an intersection of a vertical and horizontal strip, a contact is made. The resistance of the contact is particularly suitable for use with CMOS gate inputs to an electronic matrix position determining circuit.

Abstract: A portable horseshoe court includes a support frame, an elongated horseshoe stake, and a stake support block secured to the frame for supporting the stake in a generally upright position. The block has a hole through the top thereof which is adapted to axially receive the stake in press-fit relation therein. A plurality of flexible springs or the like are extended between and connected to opposite sides of the frame and a rubber pad, having a hole for the stake, rests on the frame and springs. The hole in the stake support block may be provided with an abutment member to fix the axial position of the stake therein. The frame may be a peripheral frame comprising oppositely disposed frame members having a pad support flange along the top side thereof. The top sides of the springs are arranged in the plane of the pad support flanges. An elongated chain connects a pair of courts to fix the regulation distance between them.

Abstract: A game of commodity trading having a world map with a plurality of circles and disks placed on the circles corresponding to different commodities. A command die, a quantity die, a commodity die and a market price setting spinner are used in play of the game. The players start by rolling the commodity die, picking a corresponding disk and buying a corresponding commodity until all disks are gone. The disks have letters on them and the players form words from the disks. The market price spinner is then used to set the market price for the commodities. The players then throw the three dice and follow the dice directions. The winner is the player with the most money at the end of the predetermined time.

Abstract: A board game comprising a board providing in sequence a base zone, a conflict zone and a scoring zone, the conflict zone including a plurality of protectable numbered positions and a plurality of neutral numbered positions interspersed among the protectable positions, a plurality of pieces for passage during the game from the base to the scoring zone, a plurality of indicators for location at said protectable positions and a pair of dice for determining the passage of said pieces through the zones.

Abstract: A board racing game apparatus includes playing pieces and a board having arrows marked thereon forming a continuous track divided into lanes. One group of arrows provides a preferred route around the track, certain members of another group of arrows provide for lane changing on the track straightaways so that a driver may maneuver his vehicle into the race track "groove", and a third group of arrows affects movement on the track. Contiguous with the continuous track and providing for movement off and back onto the continuous track are pit stop lanes. Movement from the race track to the pit lanes is controlled.

Abstract: A teaching device useful in helping children, especially slow learners, in spelling, reading and pronunciation. The device includes a three-tiered case or housing having a movable drawer on each tier. Each drawer is divided into a plurality of compartments. In each compartment are placed a plurality of three-dimensional letter pieces which may be colored in a plurality of different colors to reflect different pronunciations in different words. One color code is provided for vowel pronunciation, while another color code is provided for consonant pronunciation. Additionally, the drawers may contain groups of connected letter pieces, consisting of two or more letters, to aid in forming words with common prefixes, suffixes, or intermediate letter groupings. The casing has the color code imprinted on one side thereof, and a syllable pronunciation aid imprinted on the other. On the back of the case are positioned small canvas boards upon which are imprinted additional phonics and writing information.

Abstract: A game device comprising a cylinder (10) formed of a pair of side walls (18) and an outer circumferential wall (22) spanning the side walls. An inner circumferential wall (24) and a middle circumferential wall (26) span the side walls (18) with the middle circumferential wall being located between the inner and outer circumferential walls and the three circumferential walls being spaced from each other. A barrier (28) spanning the side walls (18) extends radially between the three circumferential walls. An entry hole (20) extends through the outer circumferential wall adjacent to and on a first side of the barrier (28). A plurality of avoidance holes (32) extend through middle circumferential wall with the avoidance hole (32) closest to the second side of the barrier (28) being spaced from the barrier (28) and with the avoidance holes (32) all being out of alignment with the entry hole (20) and all being of smaller diameters than the width of the middle circumferential wall (26).

Abstract: The board of a backgammon set is characterized by a central box portion and oppositely deployed festoon portions. The box portion serves as the bar during play and as a container during storage. The festoon portions are extended as tables during play and retracted into the box portion during storage, with the playing pieces.

Abstract: A game in which a player attempts to move an object through a maze has a housing which has an upstanding fulcrum located within the housing. A platform member having a maze located on its upper surface which is viewable outside of the housing is located in the housing above the fulcrum such that the platform member rests on the fulcrum and is tiltable a full 360 degrees about the fulcrum. A portion of the platform serves as a cam follower. A cam member is rotatably mounted on the housing adjacent to the fulcrum and positioned so as to be capable of interacting with that portion of the platform serving as a cam follower. In response to rotation of the cam the platform, including the maze located thereon, is tilted. An object located within the maze is capable of moving within the maze in response to tilting of platform.

Abstract: A game for both entertainment and education intended to increase familiarity and facility with binary mathematics and typical logic functions of the type normally carried out by digital computers. Two or more players each select by random chance a succession of binary digits. Instructions for operations to be performed on the digit sequence are likewise selected at random by the players, such operations being of the types typically performed in the arithmetic logic unit of a digital computer. In one embodiment of the invention, each digit in the sequence is temporarily recorded by each player on game board apparatus and is changed in accordance with the operations performed as the game progresses. A wide variety of game rules may be devised for carrying out adversary type games and determining a winner.

Abstract: A game is provided in which individual playing pieces are moved incrementally along an elongated rectangular game board, according to the random throw of a die. The game board in the form and position of an elongated movable strip and is mechanically self-retracted continuously into a fixed body in the form of an animal's head, the mouth portion of which continually opens and closes during the play of the game. The playing pieces are moved incrementally away from the animal's snapping mouth according to the random throw of the die, the object of the game being for a playing piece to reach the safe area at the extremity of the elongated strip prior to full retraction of the strip, along with the playing piece into the animal's opening and closing mouth.

Abstract: A time reaction game apparatus having a tiltable playing surface which is at least slightly convexed and has a goal located at or near the high point thereof. The goal may be in the form of a recess adapted to receive a playing ball. A timer is set and a ball is released onto the playing surface. The player of the game operates a manually actuable mechanism such as a remote joystick to tilt the playing surface to cause the playing ball to enter the goal. When the player is successful, the ball enters the goal, which automatically releases the next ball onto the playing surface. The timer goes off after a predetermined time period, and the goal may be automatically blocked as for example, by blocking the recess.

Abstract: A game device consisting of a rectangular playing board incorporating twenty-seven playing areas or squares arranged in nine rows and three columns. The board is visibly marked for division in three equal sectors of nine squares each. There are two sets of nine playing pieces or tokens marked with the numerals "1", "2", and"3", so that each of two players at opposite ends of the board longitudinally may place pieces on the equal sector near that player, the row nearest the player having the highest numbered tokens, the next row having the next highest numbered tokens, and the third row having the lowest numbered tokens, whereby pieces are moved forward in play either directly or diagonally or both according to the numeral indicated on the particular token.