Puck-type apparatus

Claim 1

A game apparatus comprising: A game board having a playing surface and a plurality of sides forming the shape of a regular polygon, preselected sides but less than all sides of said boundary having an opening for permitting the escape of a puck, said game board also having a plurality of designated positioning spots for locating the start of play, each of said spots located near a corner of said boundary; at least one raised obstacle located at the central portion of the game board; means for determining the starting player, said means rotatably mounted on the obstacle and including pointer and a plurality of color coded segments, said pointer adapted to being struck so as to come to rest on one of said color coded segments, the player whose puck color has been so determined commencing the play of the game; a plurality of pucks, each initially for positioning on one of said spots, and subsequently for being slidingly propelled along the surface of the game board; and at least one hockey-style shaped stick for propelling one of said pucks so as to strike other pucks and force other pucks through said boundary openings, points being awarded for each such striking and a greater number of points for each ejection of another puck through an opening.