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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7371185 | Putterhead with center line forward offset hosel A golf putterhead having a neck or hosel connecting said putterhead to a shaft. The hosel protrudes above and forward of the strike face on the vertical centerline plane of the putterhead and above the intended strikepoint also in said plane. Said hosel section in f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7086647 | Trucking board game apparatus and method A method for playing a game related to trucking where the player is one or more of a truck driver, a federal or state official regulating the truck driver, or owner of a 1) service center, 2) insurance company, 3) truck stop having a restaurant, 4) produce broker, s... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7044742 | Emergency reporting apparatus An emergency reporting apparatus is provided which is capable of easily acquiring passenger information necessary at the time of an emergency report and reporting as deputy for a passenger in the case of an emergency. The emergency reporting apparatus, in a training... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7033180 | Education set and work model, training method, work efficiency improving method, and tool employing the same An education set used for education of a work including a series of work steps. The education set includes segment diagrams (105a, 105b, 105c) where work directions for executing the series of work steps, work directions inc... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7022030 | Golf club head A golf club head is disclosed. The golf club head includes a first body member and a second body member. The first body member includes a strike face and a top portion. The second body member is coupled to the first body member and extends away from the first body m... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6659458 | Perpetual seal card game A perpetual seal card game in which players purchase individual play cards and reveal indicia covered by removable covers. Indicia on the individual play cards indicate whether the player is an instant winner, continues playing as a challenging player or ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6565090 | Board game simulating ways to prevent global disasters from occurring A game and a method of playing a game provide for a way to establish one among a plurality of disasters to be prevented by players as well as a variety of ways to prevent the predetermined disaster from occurring. In one embodiment, the disaster is repres... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6446968 | Themed board game A themed board game, is family oriented and recreates the fun and wonder of Halloween, preferably for 3 to 8 players (ages preferably 8 and older), and takes about one hour to play. A game board has printed thereon a thematic scene, a preferred example of... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6412777 | Double-standard DWI-rules game A game for a multitude of players based on driving rules applied according to a player's social status. The game has a playing field and a segmented path, disposed on the playing field, the path including a set of indicia-bearing segments. The game has a ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6123334 | Airport game A board game for two or more players wanting to experience the common pleasures and pitfalls of airline travel, and the method of playing same, which preferably involves a game board, a distinguishable traveler game piece for each player, luggage game pie... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6102398 | Question and answer board game A game including a game board which has a map and a path around which players may progress. The map has a grid references and the game is played by players progressing around the path and when the marker lands on an appropriate position, the player has th... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5405140 | Family vacation board game A family vacation board game provides a geopolitical map of the United States as a game board, with plural playing paths thereacross. The object of the game is to be the first player to complete a round trip across the board, using a randomly selected pla... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5303928 | Windsurfing board game A windsurfing board game includes a game board divided into a shore area, a water area and an island area. The water area and island areas are divided into playing spaces, and playing pieces in the form of windsurfers are moved on the playing spaces accor... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5282630 | Car race game apparatus A car race game apparatus, which includes a playing board, marked to provide a system of interconnected branch roads. The road system is sub-divided into multiple contiguous spaces, arranged between a START space and a FINISH space, such that each game pl... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5183258 | Map reading game apparatus A board game apparatus which educates the player about the culture of a geographic entity, such as a city and improves map reading skills. The apparatus includes a playing board having thereon a representation of a geographic entity including points of in... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5150907 | Method of playing an educational geography game A geography game is disclosed which comprises selecting locations on a map for players occupying certain playing positions. Access rights to the selected locations are established. Travelling routes are draw in lines interconnecting locations to which the... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5108115 | Interactive game show and method for achieving interactive communication therewith By providing an interactive communication system whereby individuals are able to electronically select at least one possible outcome of a plurality of outcomes of a future event, individuals are able to participate in the outcome of that event and possibl... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5108111 | Maze board game A maze type game board having a plurality of pathways divided into spaces. Preselected spaces having directional indicators thereon so that a playing piece moving along said spaces when finishing a turn on said directional indicators must begin the next t... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5087050 | History game apparatus utilizing fiber optic cable segments A game apparatus for educating players in history. The game includes six decks of question and answer cards. Each card deck is color coded to correspond to one of six different categories related to the history of the black race. The card decks correspond... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5050887 | Traffic simulation board game apparatus An apparatus including a game board with a lattice-work of intersecting highway paths, with the highway paths including intersecting portions defined by an intersection of each of the paths, wherein the intersection portions include off and on ramps, wher... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5050883 | Self-contained competitive game for developing spatial sense in young children Electronics and a playing method stimulate abstract spatil-relations ability, particularly memory of abstract space, in youngsters--without requiring them to know or spell game commands, or to find keys on a typewriter-like keyboard. The game exploits the... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5037111 | Prehistoric animal game An apparatus for playing a boardgame for young people and adults. The game board of the present invention comprises an open, continuous route of dinosaur footprints colored-coded or otherwise marked for contingency circumstances which occur during game pl... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5002283 | Defensive driving question and answer game having separate interchange bridge section A structured game in which players move vehicles through traffic lanes and interchanges on a main playing board from a starting point of a home base to a finishing point in the same home base, and in a variation played on a secondary board, being the reve... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4966372 | Board game apparatus and method of playing the game A game of chance which entertains and educates by providing information on early American history, particularly the Western territories and personages associated therewith. Trails, reduced to a game board size, are sequentially traversed with figurine gam... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4958837 | Travel game with a game board display screen and electronic card reader A travel game includes a display screen connected to a programmed controller for producing geographic map displays of various geographic regions. The program controller is operative to indicate travel routes on the display between various origin and desti... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4953871 | Traffic board game A board substrate supports a playing surface having differentiated markings. The markings include symbolic representations of the topography of a hypothetical community including buildings and a multiplicity of intersecting roadways. The roadways include ... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4949975 | Whitewater board game Whitewater board game. A game board has indicated on it successive paths of preparation for, and travel to, one or more rivers, each river having rapids therein, and each rapids having alternative routes therethrough--and some having portages around them.... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4887818 | Airline ownership and travel game The present invention entails a game, game board, and game apparatus that relates to world travel and airline ownership. Forming a part of the game is a game board having a world map formed thereon with a series of different airline routes extending acros... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4834389 | Cross country board game A board game simulating the competition between motorcyclists travelling across country and required to make stops at several motorcycling events. The board is provided with a principal route on which several home cities are located and several secondary ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4768788 | Sailing voyage game In a sailing game, a number of movable land masses each having a habor therein for placement upon a game board. At least two types of sailing vessels, each having different navigational abilities when moving over the game board. Wind speed and direction i... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4643430 | Trucking business--simulation game A game is disclosed which simulates for each player the operation of a trucking enterprise. The game includes a number of miniature truck-like playing pieces each having a truck body with a cargo bay for carrying a miniature load. The game also includes a... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4480837 | Maritime game Maritime board game involving competing ship/marker playing pieces, each carrying removable cargo units and moved from respective home ports about a closed circuit cruise route comprising various event positions variously labeled "card", "mine", collision... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4377287 | Board game apparatus Apparatus for playing a board game based on airplane flight concepts and geographical relationships among countries of the world. Spaces are provided on a board for the movement of symbolic elements representing airplanes, with the number of spaces moved ... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4134591 | Citizen band radio board game A citizen band radio is provided which can be played by 2 to 5 players. A board is used which has on it a representation of a road map including an illustration of a road system having a plurality of roads. The roads are divided by playing stations, each ... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4063735 | CB Radio highway board game apparatus A competitive citizen's band (CB) radio game employing at least one toy radio with play or game pieces representing vehicles which move along major routes and past various hazards or obstacles according to chance selection until a winner reaches a set des... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4049276 | Board game apparatus A game apparatus including a game board illustrating a map of the United States designating certain cities connected by color coded airplane flight routes, an equal number of checkpoints on each flight route identifying the location of each flight at all ... | 09/20/1977 |
| 3997166 | Board game apparatus A game, of the travel type, is disclosed wherein a square playing board has a course going around the periphery thereof, and the course is divided into a plurality of segments. The number of segments on one side is equal to the number of segments along ea... | 12/14/1976 |
