Abstract: The invention is a feature for indicating which one of two contestants first strikes his assigned last swing-down target on a pop target game. The feature has two swing-down targets, one located on the left side of the game and one located on the right side of the game. Each swing-down target is mounted on a target end of an arm. A pivot end, provided on the arm opposite the target end, pivotally mounts by means of a collar onto a lower horizontal rod of the game. At the beginning of the game, the arms rest against a stop and a wand contacts the notched collar at solid portions located at 3:00 and 9:00 o'clock. When a contestant strikes one of the swing-down targets, the target pivots around the lower horizontal rod away from the stop, pivoting until its arm contacts one end of the wand, either the left or right end depending upon whether the left or right swing-down target was struck. Contact with the wand causes the wand to twist until it encounters the slots which lock the wand.

Abstract: A combination target for use in competitive shooting tournaments includes primary and secondary targets which are reliably presented to a shooter in sequence as well as a signalling arrangement which signals a hit only after both targets have fallen to a scoring position. The combination target includes a face plate including at least first and second apertures, a primary target and a secondary target being positioned behind the face plate and respectively at the first and second apertures. A target protector plate is further provided for protecting the secondary target from being struck by a projectile until the primary target has been knocked down to a scoring position. The target protector plate is pivotally mounted so as to be movable, by gravity, from a first position covering the second aperture to a second position uncovering the second aperture.

Abstract: A golf game apparatus which has at least three rotatable targets activatable by a golf ball, which has a horizontal supporting arrangement for rotatably supporting the targets, wherein each target has a rest position indicating a forward facing target surface in the rest position; a rotation-detecting arrangement coupled to each target, a computing arrangement coupled to the rotation-detecting arrangement for computing game-related scores and parameters.

Abstract: A target assembly utilizes a post that is so supported on a base as to enable it to maintain positions deflected from its normally upright orientation.

Abstract: An apparatus for use in practicing pitching of baseballs to enable the user to improve pitching accuracy and to indicate pitched balls delivered within a strike zone having a vertical backboard with a rectangular opening therethrough, four trapezoidal shaped wings secured to the backboard and serving to form an opening defining a strike zone, each of the wings being pivotal when engaged by a baseball, electrical contacts activated as each trapezoidal wing is pivoted when struck by a baseball and electrical indicators for signaling when a baseball strikes one of the trapezoidal wings to indicate that the baseball has been pitched high, low, inside or outside of the strike zone.

Abstract: A ball return/target for racquet sports includes a resilient pad and at least one disk suspended from the pad by a filament. The pad is flexible polyurethane open cell foam of a thickness to cause a projectile hitting it to be deflected back at the source. The disk is a double thickness of fabric or like material with two faces, each face visually distinguishable from the other. When a projectile hits the suspended disk on one face, the disk rotates 180.degree. exposing the other face to give evidence that the target had been hit.

Abstract: A competitive game device having mainly a plurality of balls, two sets of obliquely mounted tubes, at least two slidable blocks slidably mounted on two sets of horizontal guide rails and connected with bellow-shaped tubes so that a player can deflect the balls put into the tubes by an opponent player to a winning basket of the player. Stopper means is also provided on each of the tubes so that the players can deposit some balls at selected tubes and thereafter open the stopper means at a selected time. A pivotably mounted ball collecting means, a pointer, and a scale are also provided.

Abstract: A game apparatus including a playing board with a surface thereon for manually gliding a slideable indicator thereover. The indicator has indicium at one end thereof which is used in conjunction with markings on the playing board to determine relative gains and losses between two players, a sufficient gain by one player resulting in a goal. The apparatus also includes a goal post structure with an overcenter mounted, elevated grid panel. After a player attains a predetermined position on the game board, the indicator is manually flicked into the air to strike the grid panel. Movement of the panel indicates a successful scoring attempt.

Abstract: A silhouette archery target includes one or more support legs which are supportably received in respective support holes in a base member. The legs and holes are cross-sectionally configured to preclude rotation of the leg in the hole. A rear pivot block is secured to the leg at the base member top surface and has a rearward bottom edge which is located below the center of gravity of the target and serves as a target pivot axis. The forward-facing side of the leg is cut away from just below the top surface of the base member in a manner which permits backward rotation of the target and leg out of the support hole and about the target pivot axis. By selecting the front-to-back depth dimension of the pivot block, one can select the required impact force which causes the target to rotate out of the support hole and topple over. A forward bias block is secured to the leg at the base member top surface to prevent wind directed at the back of the target from toppling the target out of the base member.

Abstract: A target game adapted to be operated by darts from toy dart guns, thrown objects and the like, comprises a front panel arranged for vertical positioning, a row of simulated tin can targets are arrived along the upper edge of said panel and are supported upon depending arms pivotally supported rearwardly of the front panel, and score indicating panels are mounted on said arms in a manner to be positioned opposite one of a series of viewing openings in the front panel when a can target is hit by an object and toppled rearwardly and pivotally. Each arm adjacent the pivot therefor has a cam engageable with a corresponding projection on a horizontal rod rearwardly of the front panel to cause limited rotatary movement of the rod to actuate an elongated flexible member having a striker positioned to hit an audible signal member when the flexible member is flexed incident to the aforementioned movement of the rod.

Abstract: The invention provides mobile game play goals in form of tether balls with various types of tether anchors, depending on types of playing surface and game field pattern. The mobile goals are employed in various field patterns for novel football (soccer) play whereby competing teams try to kick a free football (soccer ball) against their mobile goal for a score. The invention describes four different field patterns for mobile goals and associated game play. Tether ropes can range from 1 to 5 yds (mts) in length. Tether anchors can be in form of stake or inverted "U" pin for soft playing surface, and in form of a weighted disc for impenetrable playing surface such as concrete, asphalt, or wood. An optional form of mobile goals uses two tether balls connected by a tether from 2 to 10 yds (mts) in length, thus providing a free-to-move (non-anchored) pair of goals which can be used in novel game play.

Abstract: A competitive toss game where each player has tossable play objects such as bean bags and there is a target apparatus with one or more receptacles each having a pivotally mounted flippable lid. Each lid is provided with an opening large enough for a bean bag to be tossed directly into the associated receptacle. The bean bags of each player bear an encoding or indicia, with the indicia being different for each player. Thus, the bean bags of one player may be one color and the bean bags of the other player may be a different color. The lids have different indicia on each side, the indicia on one side matching the indicia of one player's bean bags, the indicia on the other side matching the indicia of the other player's bean bags.