A game apparatus consisting of a housing with a game playing surface. A ball is rolled on the playing surface by a conventional shooting device. The playing surface has openings and the ball, propelled from the front towards the rear end, falls into one of the openings, enters into the interior of the housing and rolls back towards the front end. One opening towards the rear end is designated as a "functional" opening and the interior of the housing has electrical wiring and a switching device f...

A business board game in which players attempt to win the game by transforming industries into cartels. Transformation of industries into cartels is by means of buying the majority of partnership stocks of all companies placed within specific industries. Controlling cartels enable players to sell essential products to their fellow players that own the partnership stocks in companies of other industries for a very high price to eventually cause bankruptcy. Such cartel product selling to other pla...

A base is provided from which an overlying support is supported for angular displacement about an upstanding axis passing centrally through the support. A plurality of elongated coplanar support arms are disposed generally radially of and spaced equally about the axis and are mounted from the support for longitudinal extension and retraction of the arms relative to adjacent portions of the outer periphery of the support. The arms include outer end portions from which elongated gameboard marginal...

A question and answer game which requires a coded reference surface having a depiction thereon, preferrably in the form of a map is taught. The reference surface is subdividable by a coded cell-type network. The players correctly answer different questions provided on cards by identifying the appropriate coded area on the depiction with the answers to the questions appropriately associated therewith. The individual cells of the network are further dividable by a separate lens-type member having ...

A chess game is provided for play by two, three or four persons played according to the conventional rules of chess as to movement and capturing of pieces, castling, check and checkmate. As in conventional chess, each player possesses an initial force of a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks and eight pawns. The game is played on a checkerboard having two hundred eight playing squares arranged in a central playing array of twelve bilaterally arranged rows having twelve squares per...

A board game for use by a plurality of players for playing a simulated football game which includes a game board having a simulated football field, a playing piece adapted to be placed on the game board for indicating the position of a player on the field, a plurality of decks of cards, each deck of cards being related to a specific type of football play, and each card having thereon the result of a selected football play. The game board is further provided with indicia representing betting area...

A table for playing marble games thereon employing target marbles of diameter X and one or more taws of diameter Y wherein Y is greater than X, the table having a base supporting a circular horizontal playing board, a circular horizontal top ring supported concentrically above the playing board and of an interior diameter less than the diameter of the playing board and of an exterior diameter greater than the playing board, the lower surface of the top ring being spaced above the top surface of ...

Each game piece of a set thereof has a surface which includes a predetermined plurality of positions defined at the same location on all of the game pieces, and a predetermined plurality of substantially identical indicia, each indicia being located at a selected one of the plural predetermined positions on the game piece surface to define thereon a pattern of the plural indicia. The location of plural indicia at selected ones of the predetermined positions on each game piece is such that each g...

A marble race game includes a number of different, interconnected marble race toys so that a marble passes from the exit of one to the entrance of another, downstream race toy. All the toys keep the marble moving fast enough along their paths to be visually appealing and yet increase the time it takes to course the toy paths compared with conventional marble race toys. Several different marble race toys are used, including a funnel toy, a zig-zag toy, a J-loop toy, a paddle wheel toy, a serpenti...

A new board game of logical, educational and entertainment values, for two or more players, which comprises: A playing board marked with a plurality of locations, divided into spaces, identical in shape and size. Playing pieces, blank on one side, and colored with numbers thereon on the other side. The playing pieces are identical in shape and equal in size to the spaces of the playing board. A container is provided for storing the playing pieces. A blinder is provided for each player to hide hi...