Abstract: A physical activity game for opposing teams of two or more players comprises a plurality of adjustable, flexible straps adapted to be looped around the arms and/or legs of the players of each team. An elongated flexible element is provided for each team and is adapted to be passed through the looped straps on the players in a selected order. A chance selector comprising an enlarged mixing area and a restricted display area for a plurality of chance elements is provided for randomly determining the order that the flexible element must be passed through the looped straps on the players' wrists and ankles. The straps and chance elements have corresponding indicia such as color coding whereby the order randomly determined by the chance means directs the order of passage of the flexible elements through the particular color coded straps positioned on the players' arms and legs.

Abstract: An electro-mechanical pinball game which includes an inclined playing board sloped downwardly toward the player which provides a surface for rollingly supporting a suitable ball. A plurality of rocking wafer-type ball repelling bumpers are mounted on the playing board and simultaneously actuated when a ball rolling thereover engages any one of the bumpers. A plurality of ball repelling, slingshot type cushions are similarly mounted on the playing board and simultaneously actuated when a ball engages any of the individual cushions. A plurality of flippers are pivotally mounted on the game board and interconnected by a single drive apparatus which actuates all of the flippers when either one of two flipper control buttons are manually actuated by a player of the game. A scoring mechanism is provided and includes counting registers which are incremented by a single device which also produces an audible signal indicating that a particular score has been achieved.

Abstract: A game apparatus which includes a base for positioning on a supporting surface and having an upper playing surface for supporting at least one playing piece for movement thereof. The playing surface has at least one recess therein for receiving the playing piece. A manually manipulatable member overlies and is in proximity to the playing surface for selective sliding movement thereover by players of the game. The manually manipulatable member is opaque and has an aperture therein for receiving the playing piece in gravity abutment with the playing surface. The aperture in the manually manipulatable member is larger than the playing piece whereby the playing piece can drop through the aperture into the recess in the playing surface when aligned therewith.

Abstract: A toy rocket includes a launching structure having a pivotally mounted, hollow cylindrical launching tube for holding a projectile before launching. A flexible air impact bulb is in communication by a flexible conduit with the launching tube and is adapted to withstand a sudden impact as by a user's hand or foot whereby the resulting compressed air is transmitted from the bulb through the launching tube. A projectile is provided and has a receiving recess positionable over the launching tube to receive the impact of the compressed air. The projectile is fabricated substantially of soft, porous or spongy material and the receiving recess is lined by a rigid impervious material of substantially higher density than the spongy material to add weight to the projectile.

Abstract: A skill-type game device is provided for use in combination with a board game or the like to introduce a significant element of manual skill into a game which may otherwise be mostly a chance game. The skill device includes an undulated track along which a roller, such as a ball, can be propelled by a player. The track has a number of alternate hills and valleys along the length thereof and each of the valleys is awarded a different score, the player being awarded the score of the valley in which his ball comes to rest. The board game is provided for play by a plurality of players and in which the undulated track is mounted on a supporting game board. A stack of play directing cards is provided from which each player, in his turn, selects the top card. The card directs the player whether to use the skill device or take some other action such as collecting money from a bank or selecting other reward cards provided in the game.

Abstract: A game apparatus which includes a base support and a plurality of playing objects for play over and onto the base support. The base support is generally circular and has a generally central funnel shaped receptacle for receiving the playing objects and determining the first of the playing objects to be received therein. A plurality of playing positions are provided on the base support about the receptacle. At least one upstanding standard is provided at each playing position and has a top receiver for positioning thereon one of the playing objects. The playing objects are of a physical character so as to be capable of being blown off of its respective standard by the air exhalation of players of the game from the top of the standards toward and into the receptacle according to appropriate rules of the game.

Abstract: A bowling game apparatus is disclosed which includes an automatic pin-spotting device. The pin-spotting device is mounted for vertical reciprocal movement generally above the pin end of the alley to position a plurality of pins, conventionally ten, on the end of the alley and to engage and hold the pins while the alley is cleared prior to a player's second ball. The pin clearing operation is effected by a pivotally mounted rear alley portion which pivots downwardly after a first ball, to dump the fallen pins into a pit at the end of the alley. An electrical control system moves the pin-spotting device and the pin clearing mechanism through the same operations each time the electrical system is manually actuated by a player of the game.

Abstract: A wheeled toy which includes a frame portion in the form of a crown for grasping by a user and for manual manipulation of the toy over a support surface. A pair of drive wheels are journalled on the underside of the frame portion for rollingly supporting the frame portion for movement over a support surface in a generally straight line, with front and rear stabilizing wheels. An impeller is rotatably mounted on the crown-shaped frame structure and protrudes outwardly therefrom at the lower marginal periphery thereof in proximity to the support surface for engaging objects on the support surface as the toy is rolled thereover and propelling the objects away from the toy. The drive wheels are operatively connected to the impeller and protrude downwardly therefrom for rotating the impeller in response to rotation of the wheel means as the toy is rolled over the support surface.

Abstract: A game of skill of the type in which a ball traverses a generally flat surface and is propelled by tilting the surface whereby the player scores "points" by propelling the ball over the surface to targets thereon. The playing surface is formed as the upper surface of a playing board which is mounted on a central fulcrum to permit controlled tilting. The board also has legs spaced from the fulcrum for limiting the amount of tilting permissible during play of the game. The upper playing surface has a ball receiver which has a manually operable gate for opening the receiver and releasing the ball onto the playing surface. The targets are in the form of upstanding resiliently mounted plate members which can be knocked down by the ball by impact from a predetermined direction. The receiver gate is closed automatically after a given period of time by a timer which is started by the opening of the gate.

Abstract: A game apparatus having a game board with an elevated playing surface forming the top of a housing mounted on the game board. The housing encloses an electric motor having a magnetic shaft extending upwardly through the elevated playing surface. A plurality of magnetic playing pieces, formed in the shape of lightning bolts, are placed on the elevated playing surface about the magnetic shaft and are propelled randomly outwardly by rotation of the magnetic shaft, off of the elevated playing surface onto one of a plurality of stations on the surrounding game board. The stations include indicia which either eliminates the player of the game or requires him to pay a penalty in order to have his playing piece repositioned on the elevated playing surface. The player having the last remaining playing piece on the playing surface is the winner of the game.

Abstract: A game playable on the theme of checkers or the like. A frame structure has a raised playing surface with a plurality of apertures therein in a predetermined pattern. A plurality of balls, larger in diameter than the apertures and color coded for opposing players, are positionable in some of the apertures. Hammer-like impellers are used by the players to strike the balls from beneath the raised playing surface, through the apertures, to move the balls along the pattern of apertures or jump other balls.

Abstract: An electrically and mechanically operated competitive amusement game, simulating the game of table tennis. The game includes a display screen so arranged that a game can be simulated thereon where two players appear to hit a ball, in the form of a light image, back and forth on the screen. The game includes a serve button for initiating a serve at the beginning of the game. The players continue to "volley" the simulated ball back and forth by timely actuation of two "volleying" buttons until a miss is detected. When a miss is detected, the ball comes to rest and a new serve is initiated to start the process again.

Abstract: A target game for simulating a bowling game including a ball and a plurality of simulated bowling pins mounted in a circular arrangement about an opening provided in the front face of a substantially vertical frame structure. Each bowling pin is individually pivotally mounted to the frame so that the longitudinal axis of all of the pins are directed radially into an open space in the center of the frame opening defined by the heads of the pins and of a lesser diameter than the ball. The pins are movable from a "set" vertical disposition wherein all of the pins lie generally in the vertical plane of the front face of the frame structure to a "knocked-down" horizontal disposition wherein all of the pins are substantially horizontal or perpendicular to the front face.

Abstract: A game apparatus for a number of players. A plurality of pivoting paddles or catapult levers are radially disposed about a mounting base which has a centrally located upright cylinder or chimney. A catapult portion of each paddle extends into one of a plurality of compartments in the lower portion of the chimney. One or more balls are disposed within the chimney and rest upon one of the catapult portions. The location of the balls within the chimney is unknown to the players. The players singularly attempt to blindly hit the ball out of the chimney and catch it. A competitive point reward system is used if a player successfully locates and hits a ball upwardly from the chimney and successfully catches it.

Abstract: A chance operating amusement device in the form of a mechanical "shell" game, including features to permit use as a game of chance. A selectively actuatable motor driven rotary probability switch is set in motion at the beginning of each operating cycle and when released stops the probability switch in a chance position to set up a search circuit to illuminate one of a plurality of lightbulb signals. The lightbulbs each are covered by a hemispherical shell which is pivotally mounted on the housing of the device. The user then activates one of a plurality of switches which first moves a shell to uncover a respective signal light, computes a score if the signal light is illuminated, and then uncovers all of the shells for the remaining signal lights so that they all may be observed. The shells then are lowered to cover the signal lights for the beginning of the next operating cycle.