Abstract: A toy bank includes a generally cylindrical, transparent upper housing portion having a slot therein for receiving tokens such as money or the like. A lower storage cavity or housing portion is defined by a shell and a transverse, generally upwardly directed concave surface having at least one aperture therein in communication with the upper housing portion. A manually operable propulsion device mounted on the transverse surface engages the token for directing the tokens through the aperture into the lower housing portion. The propulsion means includes a hand crank connected by a gear train to a propeller having its blades extending upwardly through the transverse surface to engage and deposit the tokens in the lower housing portion.

Abstract: A game board, positioned on any level surface, onto which balls are rolled which includes a sloped planar surface provided with a plurality of holes and having a front linear edge portion, a side border substantially surrounding an outer edge of the surface and displaced above the surface, the side border being horizontally and vertically contoured to form a U-shaped inclined border around a side and back portion of the side border, and an inclined edge planar surface connected to the linear edge portion joined by a front plated border such that a ball which is rolled onto the planar surface subsequently rolls off of the game boards should the ball fail to become lodged within one of the holes or fail to become deflected or obstructed by the front plated border or by the combined effect of a lodged ball and its adjacent portion of the side border.

Abstract: A skill type game which includes two opposed playing areas, a centrally located target arrangement and a projector device provided in each of the playing areas. The projector devices are slidable from side to side and rotatable for selective alignment with a plurality of projectiles or balls which are arranged in a corresponding plurality of projectile receiver slots. The projector device includes a slidable, rotatable shaft manipulated by a handle portion. The projector device further includes a human figure-shaped kicker member carried by the shaft with a foot portion of the kicker member contacting the projectiles. The target arrangement includes a purality of projectile target areas or goals each of which is adapted to retain a properly launched projectile from either playing area. The projectile target areas also provide for dislodgement of a retained projectile upon a predetermined contact from another projectile from either playing area.

Abstract: A pool-type game apparatus which includes a base structure having a playing surface over which play balls or the like may be propelled. Bumper rails substantially surround the playing surface and at least one ball receiving pocket is disposed at a playing position on the playing surface. A cue ball and a cue ball propelling device is provided for rolling the cue ball over the playing surface away from the ball propelling device into contact with other play balls or the rails. Position indicating indicia is provided on the playing surface for selective positioning of the play balls. A set of play cards are provided having indicating indicia thereon correlated to the position indicating indicia for dictating a particular shot of the cue ball from the propelling device in an attempt to strike other balls, rails, or the like, in order to propel a play ball into said pocket in accordance with the dictations of a particular play card.

Abstract: A golf game apparatus in combination with a conventional pool table is provided by the present invention in which the skills developed in playing the game of pool are utilized in a simulated golf course environment including contoured golf greens, sand and water hazards, tees and flags, the object being to direct an object ball using a cue ball and cue stick as in the play of pool, from a designated tee area around the playing surface to a correspondingly designated golf cup or pocket, while avoiding the hazards randomly disposed on the playing surface as in the play of natural golf.

Abstract: A game apparatus for use with marbles or the like comprising a unitary housing having substantially parallel upper and lower surfaces, the housing having a plurality of collecting chambers therein, the collecting chambers adapted to cooperate with a plurality of apertures disposed in the first lateral surface of the housing, the apertures permitting the passage of marbles or the like into the collecting chamber; an elongated roller element rotatably secured within an elongated chamber disposed within the housing; apparatus for rotating the elongated roller element; and a substantially rectangular flexible sheet element affixed on a free edge thereof to the roller element, the sheet element adapted to pass through an opening in the housing and extend outwardly toward the apertures and thereinfront thereby serving as a playing surface.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game utilizing a plurality of balls and a playing device, the device comprising an upper board having spaced openings to receive one of the balls, a lower board positioned vertically below the upper board, ball receiving positions formed by projections depending from the upper board in co-operation with projections upstanding on the lower board, the projections of the upper and lower boards being provided to permit a rejected ball to pass from the vicinity of a ball receiving position to a collecting tray, and the projections on the upper and lower boards, or other projections, serving to prevent a rejected ball from entering another ball receiving position.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game including playing pieces and a playing device, the playing device including an upper board having spaced holes, a lower board spaced from the upper board, and playing piece supporting elements positioned between the upper and lower boards with the supporting elements being of a resilient or rigid nature.

Abstract: A game device which has the features of an inclined maze through which a ball or other object is left to roll or travel and which is diverted from a straight course by obstructions in the maze so that by chance or skill it leaves the maze into any one of several different scoring pockets, and the maze being rotatable so as to additionally confound the travel course.

Abstract: A baseball game amusement device which is provided with a mechanism for propelling balls within a casing toward target zones labeled to correspond to the various functions that are performed during the playing of baseball, including "ball", "strike", "out", "hit", "two base hit", "three base hit", and "home run"; a baseball diamond having first, second and third bases provided with openings; designators associated with each of the bases, each including a cup-like retention member for holding one of the balls and provided with indicia designating a player, the designators being normally positioned such that the indicia cannot be seen through the openings and being mounted for rotation such that when a ball is received within the retention member, the designator moves to position the indicia of the player within the opening to be viewed by the user of the amusement device; a scoreboard provided with a visual display indicating the number of runs that have been scored; passageways connecting the various target z

Abstract: A multiple-game game board having a plurality of locations, markers movable to each of the locations, progress in each game being indicated by advancing a marker through a plurality of locations, and selecting means for determining the next location to which a marker is to be moved, the selecting means including golf putting apparatus including a plurality of holes arranged so that a ball must fall into one of the holes, and programming means for selectively setting the value of each of the plurality of holes, the setting of the programming means being determined by the location of the markers on the game board.

Abstract: This game consists primarily of a platform, having angled support members and a hinged back wall, the back wall and platform portion having groups of spaced apart openings, which are in both the platform and back wall, so as to freely receive balls, and when the game is used for pucks, the back wall is pivoted rearwards, and the openings will receive plugs, so as to support the pucks.

Abstract: This invention relates to a target game wherein a ball or similar missile is tossed and rolled, in a bowling manner, over a horizontal surface toward a target member. The target consists of partially enclosing side frames, a rear gate assembly, a top webbing and a scoring grid to provide a plurality of internal scoring sectors, each sector being defined by base ribs. Each scoring sector may be identified by a number or a color. The target may be collapsible or foldable for storage and transport. Provisions for keeping score and for bonus scoring are included. The game, in its mode of play, may be related to space travel, baseball, jackpot, bowling, lunar ball, or black jack by the designation of apparatus with appropriate names for targets and scoring sectors. Scoring may be measured in terms of the various space-related or conventional point units, depending upon the type of game chosen for playing.

Abstract: An elongated member has a plurality of like partitions extending downwardly from it. These partitions are paced at regular intervals, and form channels through which any one of the plurality of like balls can be rolled. A fence retains any balls that are rolled through the channels. A shelf for storing the balls is included.

Abstract: A game which employs a rectangular horizontal board including a plurality of scoring openings formed therein in a particular pattern. Each of the openings are circular and of the same diameter. The diameter of each opening being in exact relation to the diameter of the playing ball. Surrounding each opening is a slightly recessed or depressed area in order to encourage movement of a playing object into contact with that opening. The playing objects will comprise a plurality of balls which are substantially larger in size than the openings. The playing surface is surrounded on three sides by a sidewall and on the fourth side an inclined ramp is located. The ball playing objects are to be moved up over the ramp and onto the playing surface. The ramp is to be reversible so as to facilitate playing of the game of this invention on both a carpeted surface and a hard surface.

Abstract: A game apparatus simulating a combination of golf and pool includes a game top comprising either a self-supporting substantially planar member or one adapted to be disposed atop a conventional pool table and is played by one or more persons each utilizing a cue, cue ball and a plurality of distinctive sequentially numbered playing balls. The game top is provided with specific rack marking indicia in the center for initially spotting all of the playing balls and includes corner out-of-bounds markers and two side markers, each of the latter intended to receive only those playing balls of one of the players.

Abstract: An improved game table of an oblong configuration having a planar surface on which is played a game requiring small balls to be driven against one another, through the manipulation of a cue, for depositing selected balls in predetermined pockets communicating with the surface. The surface is a substantially rigid, fabric-covered playing surface disposed in a substantially horizontal plane and defined by a pair of side rails extended in spaced parallelism along the side edge surfaces of the playing surface and a pair of end rails extended in spaced parallelism across the ends of the playing surface. Each of the rails has included therein, near the midportion thereof, a pocket substantially bisected by an axis of symmetry for the table, whereby the table includes four pockets and is devoid of corner pockets, for thus increasing the level of difficulty of games played on the table.

Abstract: A game of bowling in which the field of play is in the form of an oversize pocket pool table, with a cue ball and numbered target balls. The players wear shoes mounted on a high platform sole and heel and manually bowl the cue ball at the target ball to direct a specific target into one of the six corner or side pockets of the carpeted field of play.

Abstract: A billiard game table including a plurality of specially located rail pockets separated from each other by a series of carom cushions which extend over the game table surface. A plurality of separately identifiable balls are used with the game table, each of which has an associated initial playing position locator spot on the game table playing surface and a designated pocket spaced therefrom. Each of these balls must initially be caromed against at least one of the carom cushions, because there is no straight path from the locator spot to the designated pocket associated with each ball. Also included with the game table is an eye ball socket and a cue ball locator spot. Associated with the eye ball socket is an eye ball and an eye ball locator spot. The eye ball locator spot and the cue ball locator spot are separated from each other by the eye ball socket. So that the game table may be used either with or without the eye ball, a removable and replaceable plug is provided for the eye ball socket.

Abstract: A cross-shaped gameboard has four arms extending radially from a central area and equiangularly spaced by 90.degree. from each other. The arms are of equal dimensions. A pocket is provided in each of the arms in the area of the end thereof farthest from the central area. Each of the pockets is adapted to accommodate a marble. A plurality of channels are formed in each of the arms and extend radially from the pocket in each of the arms. Rails extend along the edges of the arms to retain marbles on the arms. A plurality of marbles are provided. At the center of the gameboard, the marble are arranged in a square pattern such that when an additional marble is held at a height above the gameboard and dropped to a central area among the marbles, the marbles will be struck by the dropped marble and displaced thereby. The object of the game is to attempt to displace the marbles from the center of the gameboard and cause each to roll along an arm and fall into a pocket at the end of an arm.

Abstract: A game of skill including a frame for supporting a game board having a plurality of ball-receiving pockets located about the periphery thereof and formed in the supporting frame of the game board. A ball-propelling mechanism including a base and a swingably mounted impact member is movable about the game board to propel a cue ball to impact with object balls. The base includes symmetrically-disposed recesses for receiving the cue ball so that it may be automatically aligned with the impact member. The ball-propelling mechanism is also provided with a sighting edge so that the impact member and cue ball may be properly aligned with an object ball. The supporting frame of the game board also includes rebound bumpers and a bumper mounting system which provides an enhanced rebound action to the playing balls.