Game with free fall playing pieces and selectively placed support pegs

Claim 1

A skill and competition game for opposing players comprising a playing board including two substantially flat sheets of transparent material secured together in parallel face-to-face relation and defining a free fall guideway therebetween, said playing board being supported on a base in upright position with opposing sides thereof forming opposing playing surfaces for two competing players, said transparent sheets including a plurality of holes therethrough over a substantial portion of their surface with the holes of one sheet being in corresponding horizontal alignment with the holes of the other, a pair of playing pieces, said playing pieces arranged to slide freely in said guideway between said transparent sheets so as to be visible to players at opposite sides of said playing board, a plurality of support pegs substantially fewer in number than said holes, said pegs having a length greater than the distance between said opposing playing surfaces and being removably insertable in corresponding holes in said sheets to form supports for said playing pieces in said guideway wherein alternate removal and reinsertion of one or more of said pegs by alternating players at opposite sides of said board permits said playing pieces to fall between said sheets from support position to support position.