Amusement and educational device

Claim 1

A SELF-CONTAINED SEALED UNIT COMPRISING AN ELONGATED TRANSPARENT CAPSULE, VERTICALLY SPACED PARTITIONS WITHIN SAID CAPSULE, SAID SPACES BETWEEN SAID PARTITIONS PROVIDING UPPER AND LOWER COMPARTMENTS ABOVE AND BELOW SAID PARTITIONS, EACH OF SAID PARTITIONS BEING FORMED WITH A PLURALITY OF OPENINGS, SOME OF SAID OPENINGS BEING OF DIFFERENT SIZE FROM OTHERS OF SAID OPENINGS, A PLURALITY OF FREELY MOVABLE GAME PIECES CONFINED WITHIN SAID CAPSULE, SAID GAME PIECES BEING COLLECTABEL IN SAID COMPARTMENTS AND SOME BEING RETAINED IN A COMPARTMENT IN SOME OF SAID RELATIVELY SMALLER OPENINGS OF ONE OF SAID PARTITIONS AND OTHERS BEING TRANSFERABLE THROUGH SOME OF SAID RELATIVELY LARGER PARTITION OPENINGS FROM ONE COMPARTMENT INTO ANOTHER COMPARTMENT, SOME OF SAID GAME PIECES FILTERING THROUGH PARTITION OPENINGS INTO THE LOWERMOST OF SAID COMPARTMENTS, AND ALIGNED SUPERIMPOSED INVERTED GAME PIECE RETURN FUNNEL-MEANS FORMED IN EACH PARTITION ABOVE EACH COMPARTMENT BELOW THE UPPERMOST COMPARTMENT IN SAID CAPSULE, WHEREBY UPON REVERSING THE CAPSULE TO POSITION THE LOWERMOST COMPARTMENT UPPERMOST, SAID GAME PIECES UPON MANIPULATION ARE RETURNABLE TO ORIGINAL POSITION THROUGH SAID ALIGNED FUNNEL-MEANS.