Abstract: An articulated toy figure has head, limb, and hip portions each jointed for pivotal motion. The hip portion is formed by a flat plate which is positioned adjacent to the bottom of the figure's torso, and is supported for rotation about the longitudinal axis of the torso. This hip plate has tab means extending normally from the bottom surface thereof, these tab means having knobs extending therefrom over which the upper leg portions fit in pivotal mating engagement. The upper leg portions of the figure, which are joined at one end thereof as just described to the hip plate, and are joined at the other end to the lower leg portions of the figure, have similar recessed joinder portions at each end, these joinder portions having receptacles formed therein into which knobs of the hip plate tab means and lower leg end portions matingly fit for relative pivotal motion.

Abstract: A toy vehicle target game including a propelling apparatus to propel a toy vehicle, as for example a miniature car, toward a selected target. The propelling apparatus employs a pneumatically operable ejector which propels the toy vehicle by pneumatic fluid under pressure, and includes an aiming device for directing the car from a ramp associated with the propelling apparatus toward the target.

Abstract: A manipulative skill game apparatus in the form of a generally upright game board on which are tiltably mounted (in a series extending from the top toward the bottom of the board) a plurality of tiltable, generally horizontally extending platforms. Structure is also provided for controlling the tilting of the platforms. The game includes a plurality of balls, and the platforms are in staggered positions from side to side so that a ball rolling off one end of a platform will land on an end of a platform below it. The object of the game is to tilt the platforms so as to guide a ball from a higher platform successively to lower platforms. A feeder mechanism automatically delivers the balls one at a time in timed sequence to the uppermost platform. After a predetermined timed interval the next ball is delivered to that same uppermost platform.

Abstract: An amusement device for use in simulating some of the essential competitive features of the Oriental martial arts such as karate, jujitsu and aikido is described. The preferred embodiment comprises a pair of identical pictures of combatants -one picture for each participant. The picture of each combatant camouflages a series of 10 lights, each light being located at a key attack/defense point on the combatant's body. At the start, one of these ten lights is turned on and the participants each try to hit their light to turn it off. The first "hit" causes both first lights to extinguish and a second light in each series to illuminate. The player to make the first "hit" gets a scoring credit for that "hit." The participants strike at the second light and so on as the 10 lights are sequenced in a pseudo-random order. The game continues for a predetermined period and at the end a winner is determined by comparing the number of "hits" made by the players.

Abstract: An improved air table for use in playing a game. The table has a perforated horizontal surface and means coupled to the underside of the surface to form an air chamber. This means may be in the form of a flexible sheet. An air pump forces air into the chamber and out through the perforations, thereby creating an air cushion on the upper playing side of the surface for facilitating the movement of one or more playing pieces over that upper playing side. The table may have goals and guard rails disposed in front of the goals to permit the playpiece to enter the goals while limiting the degree of blockage of the goal entrance.

Abstract: A game, primarily designed for preschool children, which includes a game board having a plurality of apertures located in the game board. Selected ones of the apertures have a first type of upstanding peg located within the aperture and the others of the apertures have a second type of upstanding peg within the aperture; the first pegs are longer, but the pegs and apertures are arranged to disguise the difference between the longer and shorter pegs. A card, or similar substrate, with questions on the top thereof can be disposed over the game board and this card or substrate will have a plurality of apertures therein capable of being aligned with certain of the apertures in the game board to provide multiple choice answers. A probe, or stylus, may be inserted in the apertures of the card and into the apertures of the game board.