Spinning top and target game

Claim 1

In combination in a spinning top and marble game: a board with side walls, said board providing a playing surface, a spinning top having a disc shaped head of substantial diameter and a depending supporting spindle of substantially smaller diameter having a running tip on its lower end engagable with said board for spinning movement over the top of the board on the playing surface, a plurality of pedestals having marble seats at their upper ends and supported at spaced locations on said surface with the seats at a slightly lower elevation than the underside of said top head while said top is running in upright position so that the spinning top may move with its head over the top of said pedestals to engage the pedestals with said spindle, target marbles to be carried on said seats and adapted to be nudged by said spinning top head to drop from seats onto said surface, a plurality of disc shaped flat obstacle members positioned on said surface in fixed locations and being of a height less than the height of said top head so that the spindle of the top must move around said discs for the top to reach the pedestals, top launching means adjacent one of said walls with an opening through said one wall through which a propelling cord to be wound on said spindle is adapted to be pulled for spinning the top, an inclined ramp having one end adjacent said one wall and extending into the playing surface to a launching end with its highest portion at said one end and being of a width narrower than the playing surface with pedestals located laterally beside the ramp closer to said one wall than said launching end so that the top may move either beyond the ramp or laterally at either side of the ramp, said ramp having a concave groove so that the top will move centrally down the ramp off said launching end, gate means through one of said walls for removal of the marbles from the board, and means for tilting the board and side walls to tilt the playing surface.