Abstract: A travel distance indicator having an elongated distance scale and a slidable marker member straddling the distance scale. A front leg of the marker member has a front projection which slidably fits within a channel extending lengthwise across a front surface of the distance scale. The channel stops short of each end of the distance scale to prevent the marker member from being inadvertently slid off an end of the distance scale. Pictorial symbols are removably attached to the front surface of the distance scale in the order in which various stops and observations are represented by the symbols are to occur. A marker in the shape of a motor vehicle is fixed to the marker member to give an appearance of a vehicle traveling along a road strip that is part of the distance scale. The road strip includes graduations which divide the distance bar into equal portions to represent equal portions of miles of travel.

Abstract: Playing or games board on whcih several games or the like can be played has a skeleton or framework which consists of a base with upright walls at the sides. Between these side walls a number of parallel upright partitions are placed. These partitions are joined perpendicularly at the top by narrow bars so that the upper face of the game board is divided into squares defined by the partitions and narrow bars. Into this framework of squares a number of bodies are rotatably fixed. The bodies are fixed so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation, without communication between the bodies and each element or body has a number of faces directed outward which can be mutually changed in position by rotation of the body. Each face of an element has a different image or picture or the same image but of a different color.

Abstract: A docket diary game is provided and consists of a board game that allows each player to choose one season out of the year and answer questions based on each day of the months during that season. The first player to correctly answer questions for seven days out of each of three months in his/her season from month cards and answer correctly one question from a pack of docket diary cards wins the game. The game board is provisioned with mechanism to indicate correct answers which can not be inadvertently changed by accidentally jarring the board.

Abstract: A game in which all of the pieces, while movable for play, are captured against removal and loss from the game. Player movable pieces are received for movement along slots extending through the thickness of a playing surface but are captured by upper and lower enlargements against removal. Discreet positional stops are provided along the slots by spaced apart depressions into which a mating truncated conical portion on the movable pieces fits. In one form, a captive rotatable disc cooperates with the playing surface to permit selective opening of covers that obscure indicia matchable with indicia designating positions along a slot path.

Abstract: An improved bingo display for use in manual or video electronic games. In the manual version, a bingo card contains permanently written numbers in the N-column and the third row. The remaining sixteen squares define four discrete groups of four squares each and there is a disk secured to and on top of each discrete group. The disks with unique symbols thereon can be rotated by a player so that the numbers or symbols thereon can be positioned in their traditional position or rotated during play so that the number or symbols on one square can be moved to another square and a bingo may be obtained. In the electronic embodiment, numbers in the N-column and third row through the free space are a first color at the start of the game. The remaining sixteen squares of groups of four are of a second color but are continuously changing color in a random pattern. After a predetermined period of time, certain of the sixteen squares take on the first color while others remain the same.

Abstract: A two dimensional puzzle is disclosed which includes a plurality of interlocking movable pieces carrying indicia and disposed on a planar board. The pieces remain interlocked while being moved independently in at least two directions across the board. The arrangement is such that the pieces can be moved only in sets including a predetermined number of pieces. By successive movements of different sets of pieces any single piece of any set can be positioned at any point on the board. By moving one piece of a set into position other pieces in the set will be moved out of position so as to impart puzzle characteristics to the invention. The puzzle is solved by moving the pieces across the board to satisfy predetermined indicia patterns.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a board game comprising a board formed with a plurality of spaced holes disposed in columns and rows, inserts adapted to fit within individual holes in the columns and rows to form a playfield having a first series of spaced, parallel channels and a second series of spaced, parallel channels perpendicular to the first channels extending between the inserts, barrier elements disposed at selected positions about the perimeter of the playfield and consecutively-numbered game pieces movable within the first and second channels. The object of the game is to arrange the game pieces in an array along the first and second channels within the playfield so that the numbers on the game pieces in each column, row and diagonal of the array add to the same number.

Abstract: A logical toy for the arrangement in any desired pattern of numerals, figures or other symbols printed on independent game pieces. It contains one or more lower pushers and upper pushers movable perpendicularly thereto in grooves formed on a bearing plate. The number of lower and upper pushers and the number of the game pieces can be varied as desired. The game pieces can be arranged in directions perpendicular to one another by shifting the pushers. The bearing plate and the pushers are sealed in by a transparent plate, or one provided with apertures, which is attached to the bearing plate in a permanent manner.

Abstract: A new puzzle is disclosed having a game board with a plurality of playing paths arranged in a grid pattern that connects a first location to a second location on the board. Certain portions of the playing paths are structurally keyed, such portions forming a contiguous, keyed playing path connecting the first location to the second location. A playing piece having a key structure cooperable with the structure of the keyed playing path is slideably secured to the game board. The player attempts to maneuver the playing piece from the first location to the second location and succeeds only if the piece is slid along the keyed playing path. The keyed playing path is not readily distinguishable from the other playing paths.

Abstract: An encoding game device having a series of flexible elongated carriers including a series of compartments interconnected by reduced sections. Each compartment contains a rotatable sphere having raised binary 1's and 0's with different tactile backgrounds for visual and tactile sensing. The carriers are used in conjunction with registers for coding and decoding selected words using binary, phonetic and semantic codings.

Abstract: A manipulatable game which includes a spherical support member which has a plurality of circular tracks extending about the surface thereof which intersect each other at right angles. Movable members are carried on the tracks for being rotated about the spherical support member and shifted from one track to another at a junction of two of the tracks so that the movable members can be arranged according to predetermined patterns. The movable members are of different colors and have characters of the alphabet printed thereon.

Abstract: The tabular puzzle, shown in FIG. 5, is a puzzle comprising nine square tablets arranged in a three-by-three array and inclosed in a mechanism in such a way that any group of four tablets meeting at a common corner point may be rotated about said point by any multiple of 90.degree.. The exposed face of each of the tablets is marked with an index which uniquely establishes said tablet's identity and orientation. These indices may be scrambled by a series of said rotations. The object of the puzzle is to return the tablets, and hence the indices, to their original positions and orientations in the said three-by-three array by means of a series of said rotations.

Abstract: A game comprising a board having a series of connected slots arranged in relation to each other and provided with discs or buttons disposed for movement in the slots. The discs bear numbers and are initially arranged in a given order and then moved with respect to each other according to a definite set of rules so that they assume a specified sequential position with respect to each other which comprises the solution to the game. It may be played as solitaire or in competition.

Abstract: A logic toy for distinctive indication of bordering zones on a surface, especially existing administrative districts, such as countries, facilitating herewith the development of logic way of thinking and depth perception together with the memorization of colored vision or other kind of signalling. The body of the logic toy is for example a parallelepiped, a sphere or globe or the like, the surface thereof is divided into separated zones, whereby the body is provided with built-in signalling means for displaying a signal simultaneously for each separated zone. Comparing the logic toy according to the invention to the known logic toys, such as the magic cube or the like, it means in each occasion a new logic task to be solved, therefore the playing can not become a routine work. Furthermore, a given task can be solved in different ways, and the tasks can be made gradually more and more complicated.

Abstract: This game is unique, in that it will simulate the disasters and excitement of an earthquake, and it is competitive in play. It consists primarily of a board with positions to be played on, and a multiple number of simulated building structures may be placed on four squares that represent cities. It further includes player-operated mechanisms, which will tilt the squares, so as to simulate an earthquake, and the building structures may include pegs, for preventing them from toppling, when the squares are tilted.

Abstract: A game apparatus is disclosed as including a vertical game board A having two playing faces 10 and 12 which includes a plurality of windows 12 and 14. A pair of color coded game playing pieces 30 and 32 is held completely captive in individual compartments B between the playing faces which are movable by manipulation of a hand device in and out of the window position to produce a game winning color pattern on the faces. Playing piece 30 includes magnetic material and device C includes a magnet by which pieces 30 and 32 are moved into the window position. All pieces may be simultaneously returned to a start position by tilting the game board.

Abstract: A party game for one or more couples. A male part is attached to the flat top of a first belt buckle, and a female part is attached to the second belt buckle. The male part includes a tongue. The female part includes a tunnel with U-shaped side slots that movably retain a double headed marker pin. When the male tongue part is inserted into the female tunnel and moves the marker pin from one slot end to the other, the game task is completed.

Abstract: A game is played by opposing players on an apparatus having a plurality of sets of movable playing pieces. The game board may have an abacus-like structure. The method of using the game board assigns hierarchical values to playing pieces on either side of a central divider, the playing pieces being movable from an open to an active position and vice versa. The board structure provides means for withdrawing a number of playing pieces from a set in an active position subsequent to a confrontation with an opposing set in accordance with the established hierarchy. At the conclusion of play the player having the largest number of remaining active playing pieces is determined to be the winner.

Abstract: A board game includes an upright playing surface representative of a mountain having trails or paths thereon with openings for releasably receiving playing pieces, there being missiles or other hazards slidably or movably related to the mountain and which are adapted to strike the playing pieces to physically knock them off of the mountain.

Abstract: A board game for imitating an actual golf game, including a board, upon which there is printed a three hole golf course, several playing pieces for movement upon the golf course, a single die printed with only one to three dots, and score cards for keeping scores of the players, and the gameboard, in one design thereof, including a foldout golf club, for hitting the die.

Abstract: An amusement device useful in spelling education includes a base structure having an upper playing board with a plurality of openings arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. A removable plug is provided for each of the openings and each plug is shaped to seat within an opening and includes a handle to facilitate manual withdrawal and replacement of the plug. A disk is mounted for rotation under the playing board with an upper surface viewable through the matrix of openings when the plugs are withdrawn. The upper surface of the disk is provided with a plurality of matrices rows and columns of alphabetic characters, and each matrix is positioned to align the characters below the openings in the playing board for viewing when the disk is indexed into any of several rotative indexing positions.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes a playing board having an enclosed space therein which is organized into compartments for playing a game such as solitaire with slidable playing pieces. Each playing piece includes a body portion and an off-center projection wherein the projection is used to both orient the playing piece and retain the playing piece within slots aligned in the compartments. The compartments include a mixing compartment and an array of parallel columnar compartments subdivided into unordered and ordered channels. The unordered channels are connected to the mixing compartment by a gate which delivers single rows of properly oriented playing pieces to the unordered channels for parallel stacking therewithin. The unordered channels are connected to the ordered channels by a passageway which includes a plurality of storage cells for temporarily storing the playing pieces as the playing pieces are shifted to the ordered channels.

Abstract: The device includes an helical thread cylinder, a sequence of elements of information being placed between said helical threads.A ring cooperating with the helical threads in the same way as a nut is fitted with a window, through which a selected element of information appears. Such a device can be used in games of snakes and ladders type.

Abstract: Game board devices to be used as bingo cards are provided with changeable numbering sequences capable of being more readily perceived and remembered by sight handicapped persons. Through switches on the game board card, chance selected numbers may be registered by each player and through parallel circuits produce an audible sound when a winning game is achieved upon closure of those switches corresponding to predetermined patterns on the game board.

Abstract: A word game comprising a playing surface having a plurality of sections, each section being adapted to present a different letter viewable to the player, the various sections being capable of being maintained in a fixed position whereby aligned letters may be used to form a word, the remaining sections being capable of being varied to present a plurality of different letters viewable to the player or players. Optionally, the letters are dispersed on the playing surface in a manner correlated to their frequency of appearance in the English language with certain related letters being placed in juxtaposed relationship.

Abstract: A game card assembly consisting of a plurality of superposed sheets which define a plurality of windows in vertical, horizontal, and diagonal rows, each window being provided with two laterally slidable shutters which are selectively movable back and forth between retracted substantially non-visible positions and predominately visible positions. The shutters of each window possess different distinguishing characteristics so that when either shutter is in its predominately visible position, its window as a whole is given a distinguishing characteristic. The various rows of windows are arranged in checkerboard fashion in order that vertical, horizontal or diagonal alignment of like shutters may form the basis for the playing of a game of the tic-tac-toe variety.

Abstract: A game board or display board wherein in the disclosed perferred game board embodiment an eight by eight array of individually rotatable blocks, each having a plurality of exterior surfaces of different colors, are supported on eight longitudinal shafts. Each block is separated from its next adjacent block by a spacer which surrounds two longitudinal shafts. Spring biasing is used to create an axial force acting longitudinally along each shaft to frictionally grip each block and retain it with its original surface showing, or another selected face which has been turned up by finger pressure by a player. Reset bars are provided to relieve the axial force, thereby allowing each block to rotate under the action of a weighted lobe and to return to its starting position to begin a new game.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game comprising a base or body formed with large numbers of small apertures or windows (13), and means for displaying selected visible markings in the various windows. In one example there are a number of rotatable elements (12,44,41) located in the case, one below each window, each body having a plurality of different characters or symbols, so that by turning the bodies selected markings are displayed at the different windows. The apparatus may include a cover to conceal some of the windows and special groups of rotary indicates (P+Q) to indicate scores achieved in the game. The indicators may be tubular (28) or spherical (44) or may have cassette type printed strips (40). Alternatively the apparatus may include a writing surface (49,50,51) in each window, and an eraser (52) to erase any writing.

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.