Abstract A toy game apparatus and playing pieces including an opaque box with an open bottom and with the top thereof providing a playing surface having precut nail-receiving perforations. The game progresses with balloons being placed within the confines of the opaque box and each child in turn, attempting to drive one or more nails through the playing surface without bursting a balloon. The precut perforations are shaped and formed in a construction making the playing surface and the perforations indefinitely reusable. A spinner is provided with the game, the spinner surface having indicia thereon to indicate, after spinning the spinner dial, the number of nails the child playing with the toy game must attempt to drive through the playing surface during his turn without bursting a balloon.
A game comprising an opaque game box including a top wall and depending walls cooperating with said top wall and defining an internal chamber therebeneath, one of said walls defining a playing field at least one inflated balloon disposed within said chamber in proximity to and beneath said top wall but hidden from view, said playing field having plural nail-receiving perforations through which said balloon may be burst by driving a nail through selected ones of said nail-receiving perforations and depending upon the orientation of said balloon in relation to said playing field and the degree of inflation thereof, and at least one nail adapted to be driven into one or more of said nail-receiving perforations.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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A game comprising an opaque game box including a top wall and depending walls cooperating with said top wall and defining an internal chamber therebeneath, one of said walls defining a playing field at least one inflated balloon disposed within said chamber in proximity to and beneath said top wall but hidden from view, said playing field having plural nail-receiving perforations through which said balloon may be burst by driving a nail through selected ones of said nail-receiving perforations and depending upon the orientation of said balloon in relation to said playing field and the degree of inflation thereof, and at least one nail adapted to be driven into one or more of said nail-receiving perforations.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
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A game according to claim 1 wherein each of said perforations includes a central hole and plural cuts radiating therefrom.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
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A game according to claim 2 wherein prefolded indentations connect successive cuts of each of said perforations at the extremities thereof.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
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A game according to claim 1 wherein said game box includes an open bottom through which one or more inflated balloons may be introduced into said internal chamber.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
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A game according to claim 4 wherein said game box is of rectangular cross section, said top wall is horizontal and flat and said depending walls include opposite sidewalls and opposite end walls.