Abstract: The device enables a player to make silent declarations for example in the game of bridge. It comprises a case in a side of which there are series of regions having indications. Each of the indications represents a complete declaration. A withdrawable masking device is associated with each region to permit either masking the indication of the region or displaying this indication.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting bingo chips or other game parts. The parts are picked-up by a magnet and deposited in a container. The permanent magnet disengages the chips for reuse in play upon contacting the container. In one embodiment the container is of non-magnetic material and has L-shaped sides, an open top, a front wall, an open trough and a contoured base and back member. The magnet is movably disposed in a housing and has flanges attached thereto which extend outside the housing. The magnet is disengaged from magnetic association with the chips when the flanges engage the rim of the open top and the magnet is moved away from the interior surface of the bottom of the housing. After the chips have fallen into the container they are easily removed from the open trough.

Abstract: An apparatus adapted to teach contract bridge and other card games and also to ordinarily play contract bridge and distinctively comprising a preferred sequence of play indicia juxtaposed to playing card indicia respectively to directly indicate the preferred sequence of play of each playing card indicium, slides attached and slidable in overlying relationship each relative to a playing card indicium and a corresponding sequence of play indicia and settable in anyone of three distinct positions indicative of the cards played and the tricks won and lost, shields concealing the playing card indicia of each player from the other players' view, a flap to selectively conceal the sequence of play indicia and in cooperation with the shields to allow ordinary playing of contract bridge, and a central portion with a removable cover to provide instructions to each player on how to play the cards in hand.

Abstract: A device for recording and retaining the bids of a player in a bridge auction comprising a block having a plurality of holes formed in a rectangular row and column array therein, each row and column being respectively associated with a particular level and type of bid, and a plurality of tokens selectively insertable into the holes for indicating the type and level of a player's bid during each bidding round.

Abstract: A card game simulator simulates a card game by means of a set of hand displays, which may be seen only by one player at a time, and a set of corresponding play displays, which may be seen by all players. Each hand display includes a set of light emitting diodes which are lit to indicate the cards held by the hand simulated by that display. Cards are played by placing a photosensing probe against an activated light emitting diode, which action causes the corresponding play display to indicate the playing of the card corresponding to the light emitting diode sensed by the photosensor. The light emitting diode in the hand display is then de-activated. The invention as disclosed is adapted for simulating a game of bridge, and the circuitry for the simulator includes a recirculating hand memory for cyclic sequential readout of fifty-two hand codes and a recirculating trick memory for cyclic sequential readout of fifty-two trick codes.

Abstract: A blackjack play director having structure including normally deenergized indicator means adapted to be sensed by a player. A plurality of input switches are interconnected with indictor means for exclusive generation of one of four sensible play decisions in terms of a predetermined odds criteria to signal to the player a proper response by actuation of the indicator means in response to actuation of a first of the switches representative of the value of a dealer's up card and one or more of the switches to indicate the status of the player's first two cards.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting bingo chips or other game parts. The parts are picked-up by a magnetic device and automatically released and deposited into a container when the magnetic device is partially inserted into the container. Because the apparatus employs no complex operating mechanisms nor any finger activated triggers little dexterity or energy is required by the user. Hence, the apparatus is easily used by elderly and handicapped people.

Abstract: A tool for use by bingo players who play lap board bingo; the tool serving to pick up the metal chips very quickly after a game in order to be ready for the next game; the tool including a pair of levers pivotally together at the center so that one end of the levers form handles that may be squeezed together, the opposite ends of the levers each having a plate that rests against each other when the jaws are closed, one of the plates being magnetic and the other a cardboard. The handle having the cardboard plate secured thereto may incorporate a hopper into which the chips may drop after being released by separation of the plates.

Abstract: A bridge bidding indicator includes a frame, a display unit disposed on the frame which includes a multiplicity of electrically actuable indicia representative of a suit or no-trump, the number of tricks, and pass, double and re-double. The plurality of the indicia are disposed in a plurality of rows and columns intersecting with the rows. Each of the rows is indicative of a round of a multiplicity of biddable rounds, and each of the columns is indicative of a bid which can be submitted successively by one and the same player. The indicator includes a signaling unit disposed on the frame, which includes a plurality of manipulable devices indicating the plurality of indicia for selective actuation thereof on the display unit by a player.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an apparatus having a number of individual storage compartments for a plurality of game pieces. The pieces are used in a number of board games. Some pieces are unique to one game, and some pieces are common to two or more games. Selection of desired game pieces is obtained by placing a template, with discretely positioned holes cut therein, over the storage apparatus, blocking access to all compartments except those containing the desired pieces for the particular game. Those desired pieces can then be removed either manually or by turning the apparatus upside down allowing the pieces to fall out. The template is then left in place until the pieces are again ready for storage, thus facilitating the replacement of the pieces into their proper compartments in the storage apparatus.

Abstract: A betting device is disclosed for indicating all of the combinations of numbers, for example 1 through 12, in groups of only two or three different numbers each, from at least three or four different preselected ones of the numbers. The device comprises a base card having combinations of the numbers 1 through 12 in groups of only two or three different ones of the numbers each thereon. The device further includes a first partially adiaphanous and partially transparent overlay sheet which covers all of the groups of numbers on the base card which include the number 1 and exposes all of the groups of numbers on the base card which include only numbers other than 1 when the first sheet overlays the base card. Likewise, the device includes second, third, fourth, etc.

Abstract: A timing device including an internal motor which rotates a pointer on an elapsed time dial which indicates the time periods required for the performance of respective events and for indicating the differences between the time periods when each time period is successively indicated on a common dial. A drive mechanism is movable between two positions. In one position the single time dial is caused to indicate increments of time for performing a series of successive events while in the other position the same single dial is caused to indicate decrements of time of the previously recorded periods of time. A timing governor is provided as a part of the drive mechanism, so as to regulate the output speed of the drive mechanism.

Abstract: A scoreboard is provided for use primarily in scoring dart games. Typically, darts may be played in a number of different ways with each game having its own rules and scoring procedures and each requiring a different score board or sheet for each game. The present invention discloses a permanent, multi-purpose scoreboard having a hard transparent front wall providing a writing surface formed with a U-shaped center core defining a recess open along one edge to receive a set of score sheets, each representing a different game and printed with scoring indicia unique to each game. The board may be wallmounted with a grease pencil attached for keeping score on the transparent front wall. The various score sheets may be rearranged as desired depending upon the particular game to be played.

Abstract: A calculator to aid in selecting bingo cards to increase the odds of winning. A fixed frame member has a slide member freely movable relative to it. The front face of the frame has a transverse slot and an indicator. Adjacent the slot, along its length, is an indicia scale made up of the letters BINGO. The slide member has a pluraity of transverse scales, each corresponding to a particular form of bingo game. The scales each have a corresponding indicia, identifying the particular game, which is spaced a distance substantially equal to the distance from the slot to the indicator plus the width of a scale. When an indicia is aligned with the indicator, its corresponding scale is visible in the slot and aligns with the letters BINGO. The numbers of the scale tell which numerals should be chosen under each letter to increase the chances of winning.

Abstract: A game apparatus including two sets of playing cards and a timing device. One of the sets of cards each includes indicia on one side thereof representative of an activity. The second set of playing cards each includes indicia which is identical to a portion of the indicia on one of the playing cards of the first set so that during the play of the game a card from the second set can be matched with a card from the first set by matching the identical indicia portions. The timing device includes an internal motor and governor which rotates a pointer on an elapsed time dial which times the period in which a player is attempting to make a matched pair of cards. The timer includes two manually actuatable levers which control the direction of rotation of the pointer. The pointer begins at a zero or reference position and rotates in one direction while the first player attempts to make a match.

Abstract: An improved gaming token and fabrication process therefor wherein an injection molding compound is applied at selected preconfigured locations within and between a pair of aligned, substantially flat annular non-metallic rings. The common interface between the injected molding compound and the annular rings receiving the molding compound is seen as continuous sharply defined lines between the different colors of the molding compound and of the rings, respectively. These lines define preconfigured surface designs which are contiguous with the outer surfaces of the two annular rings.One or more coins may be mounted in a central opening defined by certain portions of the annular rings, and these coins impart an added measure of control over the distribution of these tokens in instances where the annular rings are made by authorized outside vendors.

Abstract: A game apparatus for use by two or more players. The game apparatus includes a set of playing cards having different indicia on at least some of the cards, and a set of chips having indicia on at least some of the chips which is identical to the indicia on one of the playing cards for matching with the cards during the play of the game. The game includes a chip dispenser for dispensing one of the chips successively to the players of the game from a stack of chips the order of which is unobservable by the players. The chips are "purchased" with one of a plurality of simulated coins which are acquired by the players according to the dictates of the game. The dispensing device is in the form of a toy truck and includes a signalling device which produces an audible signal when one of the coins is inserted through a slot in the top of the toy truck.

Abstract: A portable lawn playing checker apparatus comprised of:A rectangular base board having a first and a second face; with a plurality of rectangles inscribed upon the first face and a first storage compartment and a second storage compartment attached to the second face of the rectangular base board on opposite ends of the base board for storing a plurality of movable rings, which are used as checkers. The base board is further comprised of first and second holding compartments on said first face for holding the movable rings during the game. The base board has a hinge between the first storage compartment and the second storage compartment for folding the rectangular base board in half. The portable lawn playing checker apparatus has a device for moving the movable rings from rectangle to rectangle.