Game dial settable to vary relative strengths of players

Claim 1

A DIAL FOR USE BY OPPONENTS TO DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF A GAME COMPRISING A BASE MEMBER OF GENERALLY DISC-LIKE FORM, AN ANNULAR PORTION ON ONE FACE OF THE BASE SPACED RADIALLY INWARDLY FROM THE PERIPHERAL EDGE THEREOF DEFINING A FIELD REPRESENTING AN OPPONENT, MEANS DEFINING A RADIAL SLOT IN THE ANNULAR PORTION OF THE BASE, A HUB OF SMALLER DIAMETER THAN THE BASE ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID ONE FACE OF THE BASE MEMBER CONCENTRICALLY THEREWITH, A SPLIT RING MEMBER DEFINING A SECOND FIELD REPRESENTING ANOTHER OPPONENT SECURED AT ONE END TO THE HUB BY A BRIDGE CONNECTION AND THE OTHER FREE END THEREOF ENGAGING THROUGH SAID RADIAL SLOT WHEREBY A SEGMENT OF THE SPLIT RING MEMBER ADJACENT SAID ONE END OVERLIES SAID ANNULAR PORTION OVER A PORTION OF ITS CIRCUMFERENCE AND THE SEGMENT OF SAID SPLIT RING MEMBER ADJACENT ITS OTHER FREE END UNDERLIES THE BASE MEMBER, MEANS MOUNTING SAID SPLIT RING MEMBER FOR ROTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE BASE THEREBY ROTATION IN ONE DIRECTION INCREASES THE EXPOSED PORTION OF SAID ONE FIELD AND DECREASES PROPORTIONATELY THE EXPOSED PORTION OF SAID SECOND FIELD AND ROTATION IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION INCREASES THE EXPOSED PORTION OF SAID SECOND FIELD AND DECREASES PROPORTIONATELY THE EXPOSED PORTION OF SAID ONE FIELD, ODDS INDICIA REPRESENTING RELATIVE STRENGTH OF THE OPPONENTS CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED ON SAID ONE FACE OF THE BASE, INDEX MEANS ON THE SPLIT RING COOPERATING WITH THE ODDS INDICIA FOR SETTING THE RELATIVE POSITION OF SAID BASE MEMBER AND SPLIT RING MEMBER AND THEREBY THE RELATIVE EXPOSED PORTIONS OF SAID FIELDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ODDS INDICIA AND AN INDICATOR ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON THE DIAL OPERABLE UPON ACUTATION TO SWEEP THE FIELDS AND COME TO REST IN REGISTRY WITH ONE OF THE EXPOSED PORTIONS OF SAID FIELDS.