Game

Claim 1

A GAME ADAPTED TO BE PLAYED ON A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL SURFACE AND COMPRISING A MISSILE HAVING A GENERALLY NON-SPHERICAL CONFIGURATION WHICH PERMITS ROCKING BUT PREVENTS ROLLING OF THE MISSILE ALONG THE SUPPORTING SURFACE, MEANS FOR STRIKING A PERIPHERAL PORTION OF SAID MISSILE TO IMPART A TRANSLOCATORY MOVEMENT FOR THE MISSILE HAVING A SUBSTANTIAL VERTICAL COMPONENT, WHEREBY SAID MISSILE IS MOVED THROUGH THE AIR AND AWAY FROM THE POSITION AT WHICH IT WAS STRUCK, AND GOAL MEANS IN POSITION FOR RECEIVING SAID MISSILE WHEN THE LATTER IS PROPERLY STRUCK, SAID GOAL MEANS COMPRISING A PAIR OF HINGEDLY CONNECTED, COMPLEMENTARY ENCLOSURES WHICH ARE MOVABLE BETWEEN AN OPEN POSITION OF REST ON THE PLAYING SURFACE PROVIDING A RECEPTACLE FOR SAID MISSILE AND A CLOSED POSITION PREVENTING ENTRY OF A MISSILE, A BIASING MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID PAIR OF ENCLOSURES TO URGE SAID ENCLOSURES TOWARD THEIR CLOSED POSITION, AND A TRIGGER MEANS WITHIN SAID ENCLOSURES AND CONNECTED WITH SAID BIASING MEANS SO AS TO NORMALLY RETAIN SAID ENCLOSURES IN THEIR OPEN POSITION BUT OPERATIVE IN RESPONSE TO THE IMPACT OF SAID MISSILE STRIKING SAID TRIGGER MEANS TO CAUSE SAID ENCLOSURES TO SNAP SHUT UNDER THE ACTION OF SAID BIASING MEANS.