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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7237776 | Game board Apparatus 10 discloses a mathematically-based game comprising a game board 12 having four parallel rows of eight depressions 14 for retaining game pieces 24 such as marbles. Game pieces 24 are arranged by each player 26 in t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229075 | Apparatus and method of playing cribbage as a casino game and as a slot machine A method of playing a casino table version of cribbage using at least one deck of conventional playing cards, having at least one player making a wager and a dealer that deals the cards. The method includes having at least one player making a wager to receive a plur... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7210660 | Pegboard adapter An adapter for selectively mounting to an associated wall of a cabinet has a first wall having a plurality of openings for receiving associated peg hooks. The adapter further has a second wall depending from a first end of the first wall and a third wall extending f... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7142933 | Apparatus for determining performance-indicating numbers in sports games, particularly in ice-hockey A system and method for determining a performance-indicating statistic for a goal based sports game, the sports game involving time, the method comprising: storing at least one sports game box score, the at least one box score representing a performance in the sport... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6959924 | Euchre scorekeeper A unique Euchre scoring device includes a tablet with aligned rows of scoring spots to keep score of each of the two steams in the card game Euchre. Further, the device includes a storage compartment, and an indication of what suit is trump. The device also allows a... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6279958 | Food portion tabulator and method of use A food portion tabulator device that is an aid for calculating and evaluating an individuals daily intake of food portions. The device is self-contained, having various indicia pertinent to various food groups thereon, includes movable pins which correspo... | 08/28/2001 |
| 5979752 | Portable and floatable fish weight tabulation peg board and method for using same during competition Invention relates to an accurate, yet inexpensive system for recording and maintaining the weight of fish caught during a fishing competition, where the object is to catch and retain a predetermined number of fish, of the highest weight, within a prescrib... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5952637 | Portable folding board games Portable folding board games are provided. These games include a pair of elongate board members. A first side of each board member includes (i) a plurality of apertures each constructed to receive a game peg, and (ii) a well constructed to retain a plural... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5491324 | Score-keeping-with-carry score boards The present inventions are score-keeping-with-carry score boards and are specifically suited by design for accumulating and displaying points during the play of games like cribbage, rummy or five hundred euchre but not limited to these. The present invent... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5438950 | Dart board scoring system A dartboard scoring system for allowing players to keep score of a variety of dart games comprising a pegboard bearing indicia for dividing it into a plurality of team zones, each team zone bearing indicia dividing it into a matrix of scoring spaces, each... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5407206 | Cribbage game apparatus An improved cribbage game apparatus includes a cribbage score board having a single scoring path for each player in order to obviate the need to repeat the counting or scoring lap and thus reducing confusion as to the laps completed. The board is larger t... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5388547 | Fish score card A fish score card for counting the number of fish caught during a fishing trip is disclosed. The score card includes a column for each fisherman on the trip and a row for each possible type of fish caught. Each time a fish is caught the fisherman places a... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5028765 | Give-a-way and cribbage game board The present invention is a peg type score keeping game board which is two game boards in one and is specifically suited by design to facilitate card games such as the game GIVE-A-WAY and CRIBBAGE.... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4979749 | Multi-use number board A multi-use number board including a board having a series of substantially square raised surfaces or lands arranged in rows and columns on the top surface of the board and separated by an array of substantially perpendicular channels, and including holes... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4805909 | Score keeping apparatus A score keeping apparatus (10) for games comprising a clipboard unit (11) adapted to operatively engage a score pad unit (12) and a sequence monitoring unit (13) operatively associated with the clipboard unit (11); wherein the sequence monitoring unit (13... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4775780 | Blood alcohol indicator Alcohol pieces representing alcohol consumed are placed on one side of a balance board supported by as support structure. A time piece (or pieces) representing the alcohol oxidized by the body in a period of time is placed on the other side of the balance... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4631393 | Calorie counting device A calorie counting device comprising a plurality of activity pieces and consumption pieces, a support structure, a balance board and a scale means. The balance board is balanced on said structure along a line that defines a center line. The board has a pl... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4521675 | Cribbage board A cribbage board is provided with means to indicate when a losing player has failed to tally a given number of points in a game. The indicators are released to an indicating position by the placement of a tally pin in final socket on the game board surfac... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4477719 | Counting board A counting board having a top panel with a series of apertures therein, a plurality of pegs each insertable into one of these apertures and each formed from magnetically attractive material, and at least one strip of magnetic material attached to the top ... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4332386 | Euchre score board A euchre score board comprising a body portion defining a playing surface divided into two substantially mirror image result tabulation areas. The tabulation areas each comprise a column of N peg receiving holes for tabulating the number of points aquired... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4292507 | Football statistic pegboard There is disclosed a calculating and recording device of the slide rule type for determining and retaining play statistics of a football game. The device has a body bearing at least one, and preferably two, coextensive grooves, each of which can receive a... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4245216 | Electric cribbage board with common hand count display and selective entry to respective sets of game score indicators An electric cribbage board wherein the score for each shown by the illumination of a respective one of a number of lightable indicator devices forming a respective "track" or "street". The board is arranged to illuminate two successive devices in each tra... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4231375 | Pulmonary exerciser Pulmonary exerciser device is provided whereby in one embodiment respective inspiratory and expiratory stages are stacked, the former above the latter, in a generally vertical, elongated tubular chamber. The patient pulmonary system is coupled to an inter... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4195767 | Peg board scoring device A peg board scoring device for scoring the game of euchre is disclosed. A first plurality of spaced apart apertures are disposed in a base along a first pair of converging lines intersecting to form a "V". A second plurality of spaced apart apertures in t... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4068972 | Golf peg score card A golf score card takes the form of a single-piece card together with eighteen pegs numbered from one through eighteen for the purpose of keeping one's golf score without a paper and pencil. The card can be attached to a golf bag, cart or carried in the p... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4029943 | Method and apparatus for opinion surveys Beginning with data cards which carry thereon a question or a statement to be a subject of a survey, such cards being pre-punched with appropriate indicia signifying the question being asked or the position being tested, the interviewer submits such posit... | 06/14/1977 |
| 3947034 | Marble game board with surface pockets A cross-shaped gameboard has four arms extending radially from a central area and equiangularly spaced by 90° from each other. The arms are of equal dimensions. A pocket is provided in each of the arms in the area of the end thereof farthest from the cen... | 03/30/1976 |
