Abstract: A base is provided from which an overlying support is supported for angular displacement about an upstanding axis passing centrally through the support. A plurality of elongated coplanar support arms are disposed generally radially of and spaced equally about the axis and are mounted from the support for longitudinal extension and retraction of the arms relative to adjacent portions of the outer periphery of the support. The arms include outer end portions from which elongated gameboard marginal edge support members are mounted extending transversely of the arms and the support members include upwardly facing support surface portions spaced longitudinally therealong for support of a corresponding marginal portion of a gameboard therefrom. The support surface portions are generally coplanar with the upper surface of the horizontal support.

Abstract: Furniture quality game table with multiple plane surfaces on at least three sides of a cubical game board assembly, with end panels journaled for rotation on end standards spanning the board assembly, and with endwise removable locking pins and a handle for locking the board assembly with any one of the game board surfaces in an upper horizontal position, with the handle configured to cover the locking pins from view when engaged. The typical game board assembly is rotatable on a fixed trunnion bar on which a lighting fixture is mounted for back lighting of the game board surfaces. The table includes in its lower portion a storage compartment for game pieces, playing cards and the like.

Abstract: A pai (tile) arranging apparatus for an automatic playing table for a game known by the trademark Mah-Jongg, which includes a hopper provided in the playing table, a mixing unit which includes a turntable provided in the hopper, an orientation control unit for controlling orientations of plural pais (tiles), a transferring unit for transferring the tiles, an orientation detecting unit for detecting the orientations of the tiles, and an orientation correcting unit which is operative in response to a detecting signal of the orientation correcting unit.

Abstract: A jigsaw puzzle assembly and storage apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a ferromagnetic base portion preferably contructed including a thin layer of tin or steel. The base portion includes at least one beveled edge which permits a partial assembly or an entire puzzle to be shifted intact up the beveled edge and onto the base portion for storage. A flexible magnetic cover sheet is hingeably coupled to the base portion along one edge and the magnetic attraction between the entire surface of the ferromagnetic base portion and the magnetic cover sheet serves to hold a plurality of jigsaw puzzle pieces fixedly mounted in a desired relationship during horizontal or vertical storage. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a set of folding legs disposed on the lower surface of the base portion which permit the base portion to be utilized as a freestanding work station.

Abstract: Apparatus for preventing card-counting in blackjack games includes one or more shields on a playing table which obstruct each player's view of at least one other player's cards, without obstructing each player's view of the dealer's cards or the dealer's view of any of the cards. One or more shields may be used. They may be fixed to the table, or they may be portable so that the dealer may move them during the game if he or she wishes. Portable shields may be supported by legs, or may be inserted in grooves in the table. Each shield is a thin sheet of opaque material which stands generally vertical with respect to the table. The plane defined by the shield generally passes through the dealer's line of sight so that the dealer's view of the players' cards, and each player's view of the dealer's cards, is not obstructed. However, each player's view of at least one other player's cards is obstructed so that none of the players may count cards.

Abstract: A portable tray for use in various activities such as study or games is disclosed. The tray includes an accessory bag located beneath the center portion of the tray, with a hinged cover which folds flat with the main portion of the base. Hinged legs are provided on the under side of the tray to provide support during use. The sides of the base are curved outwardly toward the user to increase the adjacent usable tray surface. A detachable light is conveniently mounted on the rear of the tray.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically arranging the Mah-Jongg tiles on a Mah-Jongg board in parallel with the four edges thereof. Two horizontal rows of Mah-Jonng tiles are automatically formed at the starting point of a Mah-Jongg tile conveyor system incorporated in the apparatus. These two horizontal rows of Mah-Jongg tiles are rearranged in two vertical tiers in the course of being thrusted forward in the Mah-Jongg tile conveyor system.

Abstract: A playing board of hollow construction defining a shallow cavity receiving a plurality of playing cards each having magnetic characteristics with the cavity being separated into three concentric areas defined by concentrically spaced boundary walls with the two innermost walls including passages to enable the cards to be moved from one area to the other by the use of a selector movable along the top surface of the playing board. The outermost playing area includes a player viewing window with a sliding cover to enable the cards to be selectively observed or concealed to facilitate playing poker with the game apparatus by using conventional poker playing rules.

Abstract: This game for children is played using a plurality of like-shaped playing pieces or tiles divided into sets having an equal number of pieces per set. Each piece of a set has a particular design in a particular color on one exposed surface of a piece. The other exposed surfaces of each piece are unmarked. The design and color utilized have been selected to be easily recognized by a young child and distinguishable from the other designs and colors used. A fixed number of pieces are selected randomly by players of the game to form a hand leaving a set number of remaining undivided pieces. Each selected piece can be conveniently placed in a support rack carried by a four-sided frame of a playing board. Each player in rotation then selects a piece from the undivided remaining pieces. The player retains the selected piece if the design or color of the design matches that of a piece in the hand.

Abstract: A device for automatically assembling Mah-Jongg game tiles consists of a table having a plurality of apertures with hinged doors on the surface. A horizontally rotatable disc is centrally located within the interior of the table which cooperates with a slightly inclined rotatable link to transfer the assembled random tiles into alignment. The link leads the tiles to a selector having magnets which attract a metal piece in the tiles having a selected surface facing the magnets. The tiles are carried from the selector to a tile rest station where they are aligned in a row two tiles high. From the rest station the tiles are transferred to a pallet.

Abstract: A transparent plastic sheet having a plurality of groups of circular holes formed therethrough and an adhesive coating is releasably mounted on a plurality of bingo cards releasably secured to an adhesive coating on a backing plate to permit working of the numbers of each of the bingo cards so that a bingo player may play a plurality of bingo cards simultaneously.

Abstract: A game apparatus and more particularly a game apparatus utilizing a plurality of subject cards with corresponding decks of question and answer cards and including improved means for receiving, retaining and displaying the subject and question and answer cards.

Abstract: An educational and amusing game for evolving words comprising a plurality of word cards which are provided with two five-letter words having only one vowel combination and in which no one letter of the alphabet is repeated on any one word card. The object of the game is to completely spell out both words on a word card previously chosen by each participant by means of employing game pieces which are provided with letters, complete words, and vowel combinations which duplicate the letters, vowel combinations, and words of the two-word combinations formed on the word cards. The participants randomly draw upon a series of game pieces which selectively aid and/or impede the participants in their task of spelling out the words on a drawn word card.