Toy football game

Abstract

Abstract A TOY FOOTBALL GAME IN WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL PLAYS ARE DETERMINED BY THE MOVEMENT OF A PLAYING BASS OVER A SELECTED ONE OF A NUMBER OF INCLINED PLAYING SURFACES EACH WITH UPSTANDING PINS AND GAME PIECES. EACH OF THE PLAYING SURFACES REPRESENTS AN INDIVIDUAL KIND OF FOOTBALL PLAY. THE POSITIONING OF THE PINS IS PREDETERMINED ON EACH SURFACE AS IS THE POSITION OF MOST OF THE GAME PIECES, BUT CERTAIN OF THE GAME PIECES ARE MOVABLE INTO A LIMITED NUMBER OF CHOSEN POSITIONS. THESE LATTER GAME PIECES ARE SHAPED TO RECEIVE THEPLAYING BALL. AND, IN THE CHOSEN POSITIONS MAY BE ROTATED BY INTERACTION WITH THE BAL. THE RESULT OF THE PLAY IS DETERMINED BY THE FINAL RESTING POSITION OF THE PLAYING BALL EITHER, IN THE CASE OF THE BALL COMING TO REST AGAINST A GAME PIECE OR PIN, FROM MARKINGS ON THE PLAY AREA FLOOR RELATIVE TO A SCRIMMAGE LINE, OR, WHEN THE BALL RESTS IN ONE OF A SERIES OF TERMINAL STALL, FROM THE MARKINGS INDICATED ON THE INDIVIDUAL STALL. PENALTIES ARE INCURRED BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE PLAYING BALL OVER THE PREDETERMINED PATHS AND DETERMINED BY RANDOM SELECTION. PROVISION IS ALSO MADE FOR INDICATING THE STATE OF THE GAME BY A REPRESENTATION OF A FOOTBALL FIELD, A MOVABLE MINIATURE FOOTBALL, AND MOVABLE YARDAGE MARKERS.

Inventors

• 👤 Frederick George Chapman

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