Abstract: A manual dexterity device has a base and a lid. The base includes a bottom and three side walls that form an open top. The lid is received on said base at the top opening and is movable between a closed position in which the lid closes the top opening and an opened position in which the top opening is open. A plurality of slots are arranged on the lid in rows and columns. The slots are configured to receive test or control objects that test the manual dexterity of a user. Test objects passing through any of said one or more slots are received in the base.

Abstract: A control system may comprise a flow control device, wherein the flow control device comprises water floats and gas floats and a regulatory valve connected to the flow control device through a control line. An autonomous flow control device may comprise a housing, one or more floats disposed within the housing, one or more protrusions connected to the outside of the housing, and an outlet disposed in the housing.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a container with one or more secondary objects housed in the container and configured with indicia to communicate a message. One or more secondary objects in communication with a weight are housed in the container. A combination of the weight and buoyancy characteristics of the secondary object(s) supports floating of the secondary object in the fluid.

Abstract: A novelty item for parties and other amusement which is a straw containing a jellied shooter, a granita or a slush. Preferably the jellied shooter, the granita or slush contains a potable alcohol. Alternative embodiments incorporate a holder for multiple straws which may be operably connected to each other.

Abstract: A pressure-filled container-popping game is defined with pressure-filled containers that are positioned in a game play area behind various barriers. Each pressure-filled container has one or more prizes coupled to it. The barriers have openings or orifices which provides access to a corresponding pressure-filled container through the barrier. A player positions a moveable target arm using a game control attempting to align a piercing member attached to the target arm with a selected one of the orifices. When the player believes the piercing member is properly aligned, an attempt is triggered which causes the target arm to move the piercing member toward the selected orifice. If it is properly aligned, the piercing member passes through the orifice and impacts the corresponding pressure-filled container, popping it and sending the coupled prize or prizes falling into a prize chute. Otherwise, the piercing member impacts the barrier, ending the players game attempt.

Abstract: A coin dropping game system has a lower base and an upper base. A housing has open upper end and an open bottom end which is coupled to the top of the upper base. A lid having a lip is positioned over, and encloses, the upper end of the housing. A vertical support shaft has a lower end rotatably coupled with respect to the upper base and an upper end extending upwardly through the central aperture in the lid. The shaft has associated plates, having coin receiving surfaces. A base support plate is formed with a central aperture for rotatably receiving the lower end of the vertical support shaft.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a CPU 106 which determines whether or not the game state is to be switched to a special game state advantageous to a player; mechanical reels 30A through 30C formed of a translucent material to display multiple kinds of indicating information variably and statically; a motor driving circuit 120 which controls the mechanical reels 30A through 30C; a water tank 500 formed of a translucent material to retain liquid, and provided behind a display screen 10; lamps 650a through 650w for emitting multiple kinds of lights toward the liquid stored in the water tank 500; and a drive control circuit 300 which performs a control operation that instructs the lamps 650a through 650w to emit a light selected from among the multiple kinds of lights according to the result of the determination made by the CPU 106.

Abstract: A device for playing with a water balloon includes a target area which is shaped and dimensioned to receive the water balloon. A plurality of water balloon-bursting teeth are disposed around the target area. A player holds the device and attempts to position the target area so that an incoming airborne water balloon lands completely within the target area and does not land on one or more of the teeth. If the water balloon does land on one or more teeth it will burst.

Abstract: A gaming machine is provided with improved visual effects by using a water tank, while facilitating the player's ability to visually recognize the information displayed by a display device. The gaming machine includes: a CPU 106 which controls execution of a game; mechanical reels 30A through 30C, each of which displays multiple kinds of indicating information variably and statically, and each of which is formed of a translucent material; a motor driving circuit 120 that controls the display operation of the mechanical reels 30A through 30C, which provides a function of displaying indicating information variably and statically; and a water tank 500 that is provided behind a display screen 10 for displaying the indicating information provided on the mechanical reels 30A through 30C, retains liquid, and is formed of a translucent material.

Abstract: A game assembly and its method of play. The game assembly has a game board. A three-dimensional underlay is positioned under the game board. Openings are formed through the game board that enable a person to see into the underlay. The underlay is comprised of a basin that is partially occupied with fill material. Search objects are mixed with the fill material. Sometimes the search objects are covered by the fill material, at other times they are not. Cover structures are provided. The cover structures selectively cover the openings in the game board. To play the game, a player selects a search object. A player also selects a cover structure. The cover structure selected by the player is removed and the player looks through the exposed opening for the selected search object. The game is won when a predetermined number of search objects are found by a single player.

Abstract: A paintball grenade having an outer bladder and an inner bladder. The outer bladder has a first open end, an opposite second open end, and a cavity therethrough. The inner bladder has a closed end and an open end. The inner bladder is capable of being inserted into the outer bladder whereby the open end is adjacent the first open end of the outer bladder, and the closed end is adjacent the second open end of the outer bladder, the inner bladder being filled with a colored liquid. A securing element is used to secure the first open end of the outer bladder and the open end of the inner bladder.

Abstract: A combat game includes an inflatable arena, one or more inflatable player suits in fluid connection with said inflatable arena and at least one source of air in fluid connection with said inflatable arena and said one or more inflatable player suits, said at least one source of air capable of providing a flow of air under positive pressure.

Abstract: A game device is disclosed, including a tank charged with a fluid, a base for supporting the tank, the base further including a pump system to generate a fluid current within the tank, the pump system having a nozzle through which current is directed into the tank and an actuating system to operate the pump system, a play piece within the fluid having a specific gravity slightly greater than the fluid, the play piece further including a body portion and at least one protuberance extending outwardly from the body portion, wherein the at least one protuberance is adapted to impart one or more of rotational and translational motion to the play piece upon engaging a fluid current.

Abstract: A game device includes a housing defining an interior chamber and the housing has a top surface. The game device also includes a gaming surface integral to the top surface. A leg is slidably connected to the housing and the leg is moveable between a first position interior to the housing and a second position, at least partially exterior to the housing. A base element is selectively disposed within the interior chamber of the housing. The base element has a portion extending exterior to the housing and engages with the variable surface to support the housing. The base element may further include a flexible container. The container defines a second interior chamber and the container may conform to the interior chamber of the housing. The second interior chamber may be filled with a stabilizing material which may determine the range of variable surfaces the game device can be placed on.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus and method that can provide a group of individuals with an experiential exercise. The apparatus can comprise a source of fluid flow and a channel formation connected to the source of fluid flow at at least two regions of the channel formation. The source of fluid flow can be a vacuum suction provided from, for example, a single vacuum source. The fluid flow can be airflow. The channel formation is adapted to receive at least one projectile therein, and the projectile is displaceable within the channel formation as a result of the fluid flow. The projectile can be, for example, a ball. A gate is located at each region and is movable between an open position and a closed position. When the gate is in the closed position it at least partially obstructs the fluid flow with the channel formation in that region. Further, at least one fluid flow regulator is provided in the channel formation to adjust the fluid flow in the channel formation.

Abstract: A device for determining whether a rotating stream of water from a sprinkler has been successfully jumped by a person at a player position includes a first sensor generating an first signal as the stream of water passes a first location and a second sensor generating a second signal as the stream of water passes a second location, which is aligned with the player position. The device determines whether the second signal follows the first, indicating whether the stream of water has been blocked by the person, having failed to jump. The device then provides an audible of visible indication as a result of this determination. The device may also display a count of successful jumps.

Abstract: A water-skimming ball for use in competitive water play wherein the ball is a specified composition and partially filled with fluids, not only to induce a skimming action of the ball across the surface of water for long distances when properly thrown relative to the surface of the water, but also to produce certain other desirable dynamics particularly suited to competitive water play.

Abstract: A game device with a water reservoir having a plurality of openings for exit of water from the reservoir and blocking members adapted to either block the flow of water from the openings or permit the flow of water from the openings.

Abstract: A coin dropping game system has a lower base with a horizontal lower plate, an open top and vertical side walls. An upper base has a horizontal lower plate, an open top and vertical side walls. The lower plate of the upper base is centrally positioned upon the open top of the lower base. An exterior housing is fabricated of a plastic material with an open upper end, an open bottom end coupled to the top of the upper base, and a transparent side wall. A lid is positioned over the upper end of the exterior housing in contact with the upper end of the interior housing. A central aperture and a plurality of slots are provided through the lid. A vertical support shaft has a lower end rotatably coupled with respect to the upper base and an upper end extending upwardly through the central aperture in the lid. A handle on the upper end of the vertical support shaft is provided for being turned by a player. The support shaft has axially spaced horizontal plates.

Abstract: A water balloon game for providing amusement to individuals at events by bursting a balloon filled with water above a subject's head thereby effectively “dunking” the subject. The inventive device includes a wall member having a target and a support structure to maintain the wall member in a vertical position, a basket supported to an upper portion of the wall member by a support bar formed for receiving a balloon filled with a fluid such as water, a shaft pivotally attached to the wall member, a plate attached to the shaft positioned in front of the target, and a puncturing member attached orthogonally to the end of the shaft opposite of the plate for puncturing the balloon when positioned within the basket. The shaft is pivotally attached to the wall member with pivot brackets and a pivot pin. The shaft is angled upwardly from the plate to the puncturing member.

Abstract: A game device with a water reservoir having a plurality of openings for exit of water from the reservoir and blocking members adapted to either block the flow of water from the openings or permit the flow of water from the openings.

Abstract: The dive stick is a one piece molded flexible polymer having four elongated wings joined at a common edge at right angles to each other. An enclosure is molded to one end of the four elongated wings and a first shelf is molded to the opposite end. A second shelf is parallel and spaced apart from the first shelf. In a first game, one or more dive sticks are thrown into a pool. Different players are timed to determine who can retrieve the dive sticks the fastest. A second game is played by dropping a dive stick at one end of the pool and having a race to see who can retrieve a dive stick and return to his/her side of the pool the fastest.

Abstract: A game for play by one or more players. The illustrated game includes a selection surface for each player. Each surface faces a player area where the associated player would position herself to observe the surface. A liquid discharge mechanism is selectively operable to direct a liquid discharge toward the player areas. The selection surface has a plurality of sites or locations. At the start of each game, a group or some but not all of the sites on a selection surface are predetermined, but the player associated with that surface does not know which sites have been predetermined. The players may take turns selecting sites on their surfaces with the objective of selecting the predetermined sites. As one player makes selections, the discharge mechanism is directed toward the other player's play area, and when a predetermined selection is successfully selected, the opposing player may receive a liquid discharge or spray.

Abstract: In one form of game the player observes and must quickly respond to the rapidly changing conditions of one or more visually observed displays such as lights to avoid being sprayed by a liquid discharge. The games is so constructed that to effectively play the game the player must generally continuously observe the condition of the lights; to do so the player must maintain her face in position to be sprayed. In another preferred embodiment, the visually observed display is a screen such as a LCD on which changing action images appear. The player interacts by controlling a portion of the images in response to the action of other of the images and in accordance with the predetermined manner of play of the game. When she is not successful, she receives a spray.

Abstract: A display device comprising a main enclosure having liquid disposed therein, a pressure change actuator coupled in fluid communication with the main enclosure for performing at least one of compressing and decompressing of the contents of the main enclosure, thereby respectively increasing and decreasing the internal pressure within the main enclosure, and a diving member disposed in the liquid of the enclosure and having at least one liquid-filled cavity therein in fluid communication with the liquid of the main enclosure, the diving member comprising at least one air-filled flexible member disposed in the liquid-filled cavity.

Abstract: In one form of the game, the player must maintain her face in position to be sprayed while using a tool to capture or manipulate a visually observed object. This game may include an open electrical circuit that mishandling of the tool causes to close to direct a spray at the player.

Abstract: A game machine has an input section through which a player inputs various instructions necessary for the play. The input section also displays various kinds of game information and performs computation of the score. The machine also has a mechanical section which includes a tank having a transparent wall and filled with water, a plurality of balls suspended in the water, a central tubular structure for creating a central upward flow of water, a liquid supply portion including a nozzle under the tubular structure, and an information reading unit disposed in a peripheral region of the tank through which the balls fall down due to, for example, difference in the specific gravity between the ball and the water. A rotary guide rail is disposed in the peripheral region so as to catch the falling balls.

Abstract: In one form of game the player observes and must quickly respond to the rapidly changing conditions of one or more visually observed displays such as lights to avoid being sprayed by a liquid discharge. The games is so constructed that to effectively play the game the player must generally continuously observe the condition of the lights; to do so the player must maintain her face in position to be sprayed. Alternatively, the timing of the discharge may be tied to the player's game playing activity or may even occur on a random or apparently random basis.

Abstract: A game has a pair parallel walls defining a space therebetween, at least one of the walls being transparent to permit viewing of the space from the exterior of the game, and a liquid-light seal around the space, with a liquid retained in the space by the seal. Buoyant balls immersed in the liquid include a ferrous material, and a retainer extends partially across a lower portion of the space for releasably retaining the balls. A magnet at the exterior of the space is manipulable for displacing the balls from beneath the retainer; and ball receptacles located above the retainer each have a downwardly facing ball reception opening dimensioned to receive the balls therein as the balls rise buoyantly through the space on release of the balls by the magnet.

Abstract: An educational device having an enclosed housing formed of a vessel-like base and a substantially flat transparent top the edges of which sealingly engage upper edges of the base. The housing is substantially filled with liquids. A divider is carried within the housing adjacent the top. The divider comprises mutually perpendicular vertical walls defining an array of bottom opening compartments which, when viewed through the top, are arrayed in mutually perpendicular rows and columns. A plurality of buoyant ball members, having distinctive indicia thereon, are carried in the housing.

Abstract: A water game that has a mat and a wall which define a reservoir that holds a volume of water. The reservoir may be separated into a plurality of individual compartments. The wall has a height that allows children to hop in and out of the reservoir. The base mat has a plurality of indicia located in separate blocked areas of the mat. The indicia are arranged so that the participants can jump about the mat in accordance with the rules of the game hopscotch. The wall may be inflated with water and contain apertures that continuously emit streams of water onto the mat area of the game to fill and replenish the reservoir.

Abstract: An attachment for bats designed principally for use in batting practice comprising a thin wall tube of rubber-like material of length approximating the length of the contact zone of the bat. In one embodiment, the tube is closed at one end with the closed end covering the end of the bat. An edge rim of greater thickness is present in one embodiment to protect the end from tearing and in other embodiments, raised patterns are present on the external surface of the tube.

Abstract: A water toy is provided with play members in a game body which is at least partially filled with air. The water toy has a fountain generating mechanism for generating a stream of liquid in the air of the game body to propel the play members through the air. The play members may be caught by receiving elements.

Abstract: A device for the random selection of letters, and a game utilizing same, is disclosed which comprises a container with at least a transparent top wall. The container has an inner cavity which is separated by a plate which has a plurality of holes therethrough. The plate separates the inner chamber into a lower chamber and an upper chamber. The inner chamber is filled with a fluid. A plurality of balls, which are filled with a solid or a liquid substance, or a gas, or air, which substance, gas or air has a lower specific gravity than the specific gravity of the fluid, are submerged in the fluid. The balls may have letters ascribed thereon, or they may be blank. When it is desired to randomly select a set of letters, the device is shaken and/or agitated and then placed in an upright position whereupon a ball will at least partially enter each of the holes in the plate thereby providing for a random selection of balls having letters or blanks.

Abstract: An amusement game of skill which can be used as a fund raiser for various purposes, such as charity, while also serving as an advertising media. The game is in the form of a free-standing display and includes a receptacle having a mouth at one end, a base at its other end and a central body portion therebetween. Disposed within the central body is a plurality of pins forming a maze through which a coin travels and a coin rest pedestal upon which a coin must rest in order to win the game. The plurality of pins can be formed on replaceable cards in numerous maze patterns, thereby creating many games in a single device. The base is such that it supports the game in an upright manner while also functioning as a money collection box. The receptacle is formed so as to be watertight, thereby allowing the game to be filled with a fluid in order to alter a dropped coin's path of travel.

Abstract: A game device wherein the player drops a coin through a clear liquid contained in a vessel and attempts to capture the coin on the surface of one of a plurality of pads disposed within the liquid. The vessel is preferably formed from a clear material such as plexiglas, and disposed at least partially therein is an actuating means for manipulating a plurality of upwardly facing pads such that the actuating means can be used to manipulate the relative positions of the pads to capture the coin dropped into the vessel, as the coin descends through the liquid.

Abstract: A ground level water toy that can be connected to a garden hose and releases water when a player pushes down one preselected control member from a number of control members extending from the toy. The toy has a housing with an inlet that can be coupled to the garden hose, an outlet that can splash the players with water, and an inner fluid passage that provides fluid communication between the inlet and the outlet. The flow of water is controlled by a valve within the housing. The toy has a trigger which is coupled to the valve by a shaft assembly. The trigger normally maintains the shaft assembly in a down position, so that the valve is closed. When the trigger is activated, the shaft moves to an up position, which opens the valve and allows water to flow from the housing outlet.The toy has a plurality of control members that extend from the housing and are adapted to be moved between a first position and a second position.

Abstract: A device including a pair of superimposed pliable sheets that are interconnected or sealed along peripheral edges. The device includes an enclosed, liquid-containing inner chamber defined by the sealed peripheral edges and by the pair of superimposed pliable sheets. The liquid is freely movable within the chamber. At least one discrete article is suspended within the liquid, and the article is manipulatable by causing displacement of the liquid medium. Graphics are included on one of the sheets. These graphics correspond in shape to the discrete article, and that discrete article is alignable with these graphics.

Abstract: A toy with a portion of apparently changeable color includes a normally upright and invertible elongate figure defining a normally opaque upper chamber and an at least partially transparent normally lower chamber. A valve in the figure is movable between an enabling position and a disabling position to control fluid flow communication between the chambers. A volume of colored fluid is disposed in the figure and capable of flowing between the chambers via the valve under the influence of gravity only when the valve is in the enabling position. A spring biases the valve towards the disabling position, and a manually operable portion moves the valve to the enabling position.

Abstract: An air activated amusement device having a hollow body member including a cylindrical side wall, and a front wall and a rear wall at opposite sides thereof, with an elongated tubular member connected to the rear wall, and a ball disposed against the front wall. The user blows into the tubular member so that air is transferred from the tubular member through the body member to an outer surface of the ball, where the air causes the ball to rotate against the front wall without falling away when the front wall is in a vertical position. Preferably, the front wall has a concave wall portion matching the outer surface of the ball so that a portion of the ball is received in the concave wall portion to allow the ball to be freely rotatable against an outer surface of the concave wall portion.

Abstract: An article of manufacture, comprising a pair of superimposed pliable sheets. The sheets are interconnected along at least their peripheral edges. A liquid-containing chamber is provided at the center of the article, and this chamber is formed with the pair of superimposed, pliable sheets. A generally flat figurine within the chamber floats within the liquid, and a point of the figurine is secured to at least one of the pliable sheets to enable the figurine to float securely within and pivot about in the liquid.

Abstract: Game apparatus comprises a generally cylindrical transparent chamber (12) containing liquid and having a series of game elements (42, 44) within the chamber for actuation by means of a pair of bellows-type pumps (26,28) whereby the game elements can be moved within the chamber and, by judicial use of the pumps, collected into a target area (56). One of the game elements (44) is of variable buoyancy. By simultaneous application of pressure from both pumps, the variable buoyancy element can be caused to descend and pick up one of the other game elements for transportation to the target area. Liquid discharged by the pumps into the chamber also causes movement of the game elements by its momentum.

Abstract: An ornamental game includes a transparent tank preferably having three sides. A fluid contained in and substantially filling the transparent tank is circulated in a direction rearward to forward by means of a rising fluid path. A plurality of movable members, each having a specific gravity slightly greater than that of the fluid are propelled upwardly in the rising fluid path by the rising current of fluid and are discharged from the open top of the partition plate, and a target mounted on an ornamental body disposed in front of the partition plate below the top thereof in the circulatory flow path of fluid catches the movable members on the target.

Abstract: A numeral toy comprising a container divided into an upper chamber and a lower chamber with a separating board having a plurality of through holes. The interior of the container is filled with a liquid and a plurality of small numbered balls are normally kept in the lower chamber. When playing with this toy, the container is reversed upside down, so that numbered balls float up through the through holes in the separating board and stop under the top board of the container.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a random number generator for selecting a specific quantity of random numbers from a preselected quantity of numbers for a selected game of chance. A plurality of numbered spheres are contained in a hollow transparent container. The container is substantially filled with the plurality of spheres and a liquid. The spheres are buoyant relative to the liquid. A hollow tube having a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the spheres and a length which is a multiple of the diameters of a predetermined number of spheres extends from the container. The hollow portion of the tube communicates with the hollow portion of the container so that when a tube is positioned above the container a selected quantity of spheres from the container "float" into the tube and form a column of spheres therein. The numbers on the spheres are then read to determine a set of random numbers for playing a game of chance, namely, a lottery.

Abstract: A transparent container having a liquid therein, and dice in the liquid, of light weight and thus floating. The container also having therein an object of greater density than the liquid, thus constituting a sinking body. Upon reversing the container top-to-bottom, the dice float to the top and the body sinks to the bottom, wherein the dice and body move in opposite directions, have mutual engagement, or collide, effecting rotation or turning of the dice. When the dice reach the top of the container, the dice are read through the transparent top. In another embodiment, rods are mounted in the container, and extend toward the middle, which the dice engage, and the dice are thereby turned or tumbled. One form includes bars or pieces, instead of dice, with inscriptions thereon. In another form, balls are used and "fall" (rise) into holes in a roulette-type member.