Abstract: A device for threading a nut blank includes an elongated guide member. Formed through the guide member is a bore. A recess is formed in the bottom end of the elongated guide member and is sized to receive a nut blank therein. A guide member holder, which includes a vertical wall and a pair of opposing horizontal walls, maintains the nut blank in the recess in the elongated member. A tap with a top end and a bottom end is adapted to be threaded through the guide member holder, through the guide member and into the nut blank. Removably secured to the top end of the tap is a tap handle for facilitating the threading of the tap into the nut blank.

Abstract: A game board apparatus of chance is disclosed and includes a game board having a path formed as a series of stations between a starting station and a finishing station and a plurality of stations along which player pieces are moved from station to station. The game further includes a container having forty consecutively numbered balls, a ball placement board, a plurality of chips in the form of coins, a plurality of instruction cards, and a plurality of cards in the form of lottery tickets. Each lottery ticket has spaces bearing numbers from one through forty and two sets wherein one set has three blank spaces and the other set has four blank spaces. During play the players begin at the starting point and are each given a lottery ticket. Each player then selects six lottery ticket numbers from the spaces numbered from one through forty, three single digit numbers and four single digit numbers are also chosen and marked on the blank spaces.