Game Patents (Class 283/49)
  • Patent number: 4588210
    Abstract: An improved folding game book is provided. Each sheet of the game book has a fold line and each sheet is folded along its fold line to define four panels. A completed game, puzzle, maze or other self contained packaged information is printed on the four panels of each individual sheet. A plurality of sheets are then positioned so that the fold line of each sheet is in engaged alignment with the fold line of the sheets directly adjacent to it, thus forming a package. This package is then secured by joining all sheets together at the fold line with a staple or other suitable fastener. This construction provides a folding game book in which each sheet may be removed from the others and stand alone as at least one game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Peer Group Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Jack Tabatch, Warren Tabatch, Shane Tabatch
  • Patent number: 4546982
    Abstract: A card game that simulates the game of golf. The game comprises a deck of fifty two cards and a score card. The deck of cards includes eight cards having the numeral zero thereon, eight cards having the numeral ten thereon, and four cards each having a numeral selected from one to nine thereon. The game is played with each player being dealt four cards--two up and two down. Draw and discard stacks are established. When a player "putts", the hand having the lowest total score wins the "hole". Play continues until nine "holes" are played with the player having the lowest total score being the winner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Mary L. Gaines, Corp.
    Inventors: Mary L. Gaines, Charles J. Gaines
  • Patent number: 4541634
    Abstract: Each player has a board having a number (N) of rows each of which comprises a number of sockets. The number of sockets in the first row is one, the number of sockets in the second row is two, the number of sockets in the third row is three, and so on up to the Nth row, which N sockets. The game is played with a multiplicity of small pieces which fit into the sockets and which, when laid on a table with the proper orientation, reveal one of a number of N of first (or "visible") characteristics, such as color. Each small piece also has one of a number N of second (or "concealable") characteristics, such as color, which may be revealed or concealed, as desired. The small piece is constructed in such a manner that the first characteristic is always viewable whenever the second characteristic is revealed. The game apparatus also includes a die to determine the sequence of play, as well as a number N of small pieces which are wild. The game proceeds in major increments which I call "jousts".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Inventor: Richard H. Nolan
  • Patent number: 4248458
    Abstract: A race horse selector includes three discs mounted on a common pivot pin behind a cover disc. Different sized discs are used to expose the outer margins. The margins are divided into equal sectors and numbers 1-12 randomly distributed thereon. The cover member has four spaced openings, one spanning all three discs to identify the win, place and show horses, and/or a Trifector race selection, an opposite one spanning the two outer discs to identify a Quinella or Perfecta race selection and two intermediate openings exposing the smallest and largest discs to identify the second half of a Daily Double and other selections. A locating tab on each disc extends radially outwardly of the cover disc with an outer clamp member extended back over or into the cover disc. Locating indicia on the back permits positioning the tabs such that a number sector is aligned within the openings, without viewing the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1981
    Inventor: Samuel M. Brody
  • Patent number: 4165878
    Abstract: A game board and an insert sheet are utilized in playing the game of Bingo and the like, the board including a pair of interconnected spaced panels having an opening defining a pocket between the panels for reception of the insert sheet. One of the panels has Bingo numbers on its surface with window openings associated with the numbers. With the insert sheet in place, first portions on one surface thereof are exposed through each of the window openings so that, when game numbers are announced which coincide with those on the game board, such first portions of the insert sheet may be marked through the window openings so as to identify those coincident game numbers without actually disturbing the numbers on the game board. The game numbers are confined within spaces of a predetermined size on the game board so as to define rows lying parallel to the open side and centerlines of the spaces lying perpendicular to the open side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Inventor: John J. Frain
  • Patent number: 4102543
    Abstract: This invention relates to new and improved apparatus for scoring duplicate bridge. The apparatus comprises in combination a score sheet, a jacket for the score sheet which is removably attachable to a rectangular receptacle for holding the cards and known as "the board", and a score board which includes means for readily securing the score sheets thereto in shingled or overlapping relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1978
    Inventor: Samuel C. Smith
  • Patent number: 4068972
    Abstract: A golf score card takes the form of a single-piece card together with eighteen pegs numbered from one through eighteen for the purpose of keeping one's golf score without a paper and pencil. The card can be attached to a golf bag, cart or carried in the pocket and it is designed to be durable over a period of years. The arrangement is such as to enable the score to be recorded on each hole by inserting a peg numbered for that particular hole into the hole representing that score on the score card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1978
    Inventor: Clifford C. Stuart