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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7784792 | Gaming apparatus using integrated rollers for game pieces A gaming apparatus including a plastic top surface and four side walls connected to the top, the top having a 64 block checkerboard pattern of a first and second color, the checkerboard having cutouts in the blocks of the first color of the checkerboard pattern; eig... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7147555 | Games grid board A board is made of many grid points 1 & 2 arranged in a grid on a flat surface 6, and connected to a game manager 3 (a CPU+memory+software). Each grid point notifies the games manager when it is pressed, and the games manager can illumina... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6983937 | Strategy game with dynamic playing board A dynamic non-static game board is formed at the beginning of each game by the players each placing tiles having playing spaces which may have side walls. The walls create a maze configuration through which pieces move. To win, one must move all of one's pieces, 1â€... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6942217 | Game and method of playing A new game is provided that involves strategy and racing through the use of game units comprising a plurality of game pieces, wherein the game promotes teamwork and cooperation. This game is governed by at least one rule requiring that the plurality of game pieces o... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6942218 | Domino and dice game The domino and dice game includes a series of dominos having counts thereon which correspond to the possible counts generated by a pair of conventional cubical dice. The dominos are initially positioned face up, and the dice are tossed. Dominos having counts corresp... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6578848 | Game with moveable play space A game with moveable play space. The invention allows any user playing the game to modify the play space at any number of given times and in response to any number of different conditions. Certain spaces (tiles or blocks) within the play space are wildcar... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6345822 | Game apparatus Game apparatus (1) has a plurality of playing locations (11) at each of which is rotatably mounted a playing piece (60). Each playing piece (60) has at least one indicium (65,66) thereon so that rotation of a playing piece (60) to a selected orientation p... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6257575 | Vertically adjustable squares on a game board assembly A plurality of vertically adjustable squares on a game board assembly having 1) a game board frame assembly provided with a bottom wall section and side wall sections defining an open cavity therebetween; and 2) a plurality of actuator square assemblies m... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6247696 | Rotation-game board with rotatable wheels A novel board game utilizing a two-dimensional game board having a plurality of bi-directional rotatable wheels with spaces for player movement arranged on the circumference of the wheel surface. Numbered cards determine the orientation and resulting magn... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6042117 | Game board using two-position indicators A game board has playing pieces. In the form of indicators which are permanently attached to a game board base. A push button approach that simulates the play of well known games is used to effectively move pieces around a game board. The indicators are p... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5890717 | Interactive probe game An interactive game is disclosed which may take the form of a board game, a hand held game or a yard game. It includes a series of printed circuits or devices which may be concealed within a playing surface and an electronic detector for the circuits. Eas... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5799944 | Game board with non-removable pieces An assembly made of an indented tracked game board with a movable playing piece that cannot be removed from the track in the game board. Each playing piece has an enlarged head and base with a reduced diameter section in between, which section rides in th... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5791987 | Method for users to play the kung-ming chess on micro-processor-based systems A game software is devised for a user to play the Kung-Ming Chess on a microprocessor-based system having at least a CPU, a memory unit, a screen, and a cursor position control device. In playing the Kung-Ming Chess, the user plays on screen against a dep... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5687970 | Board game device A gameboard includes a plurality of top-slotted, intersecting channels to define a grid of tracks for movement of playing pieces along and between the tracks. Each of the playing pieces includes a head projecting from the channel and a base within the cha... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5639090 | Geoboard with movable pins A geoboard has a board member with a plurality, advantageously four edges. An array of holes which is preferably in the form of a matrix, is provided in the board member for receiving slidably mounted push-up pins. Each push-up pin has upper and lower pos... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5558336 | Board game and method of playing A board game, and a method of playing thereof, in which a plurality of directionally-oriented playing pieces are slidably advanced through a grid of intersecting grooves of the game board to achieve a predetermined sequence of playing pieces in a desired ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5542673 | Intersecting manipulable puzzle A manipulable self-contained game puzzle with a base, multiple slider members mounted on the base through a switch and movable coded transfer members transferably mounted on the slider members for selective movement of the coded transfer members relative ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5497997 | Captive-track game apparatus A game apparatus includes a game board assembly which includes a base portion and a plurality of piece-guidance portions located on top of the base portion. The piece-guidance portions include bottom guiding portions supported by the base portion and incl... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5437459 | Horse racing games with board, pieces, cards and dice A horse racing game for use with cards and dice comprising, in combination, board pieces in a horse-like shape at the upper extents and an enlargement at their lower extents and a narrow neck therebetween, a board having a lower plate and an upper plate o... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5427379 | Gameboard A gameboard includes a platen having intersecting channels that define a grid of tracks. Playing pieces are movable along the tracks and are retained by a bae on the playing piece that co-operates with the re-entrant walls of the channels. The flanges of ... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5333877 | Method of playing a board game An improved board game apparatus is provided which consists of a game board having a continuous path around its perimeter divided into consecutive playing spaces of alternate colors with each of the two diagonal corner spaces being a start/home space and ... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5310190 | Western game board apparatus A board game is provided to have a board defining a plurality of pockets symmetrically situated around a periphery of the board and a plurality of depressions for accepting movable game pieces. A rotating shaft of an electric motor is positioned in the ce... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5261668 | Logic game A logic game having a plurality of courses connected to each other by a common connecting course in which game pieces are inserted. In particular, the game comprises three courses of equal length having guide grooves with varying widths decreasing towards... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5219170 | Action board game apparatus An action board game apparatus includes an inclined game board having openings therein, game pieces mountable on the game board partially through selected ones of the openings and capable of being pushed through the openings upon application of a sufficie... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5205557 | Mazy puzzle A mazy puzzle comprises mainly an upper housing, a lower housing, an intermediate plate, a maze plate, a movable piece, and maze blocks. The maze plate consists of a plurality of positioning frames, into each of which a maze block is inserted. The mazy pa... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5165692 | Game board with movable pieces A game board includes six longitudinal tracks and thirty-six discs of two different colors arranged six in each track. There are eighteen discs of each color, so that three of each color are in each track with the colors alternating. The two colors altern... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5114151 | Race game apparatus A race game includes an oval track structure arranged with a plurality of contiguous concentric tracks, wherein the tracks each include a plurality of spaces. The game includes tokens and die members, and wherein each of the spaces is formed with contrast... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5096203 | Tri state thumb wheel A board game apparatus is provided and consists of a plurality of changeable playing indicating pieces that are each built into a top surface of a playing board housing being a playing field zone so that one portion of each playing indicating piece will a... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5041048 | Multiple graphics selection toy A multiple graphics selection toy having a plurality of graphics-bearing elements that are individually rotatable between a position in which the graphics are concealed and a position in which the graphics are revealed, and having a manually operable sele... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5027540 | Mechanical graphical display system A graphical display system utilizes an array of base units, which are disengageably affixed to one another so as to form a base board of variable extent, having a grid of slots in the front face thereof. Cover pieces have elements for slidably engaging th... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5013043 | Game A game comprises a frame and a plurality of independently rotatable members held captive, in play, in the frame, wherein the rotatable members are set in a predetermined array and each is provided with a plurality of surface markings which define distinct... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4988109 | Quick-set domino arrangements including two-person domino challenge game Domino boards exploit an array of dominoes rotatably mounted to the top surface of each of the boards so that the array may be quickly reset by a single manipulation of the board by a user. A plurality of board shapes may be linked into modules and each m... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4961581 | Apparatus for playing a game A board game having a rectangular support for carrying arrays of images. Each image has a set of six manually variable rotatable drum indicators, each set, one for each player, being located are at each of the peripheral sides of the support. Each drum be... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4927156 | Property dealing game A property dealing game that is played in two phases requires the players to acquire properties without always actually knowing the intrinsic value of the property. Cards are provided which, in combination with one or more properties, make the property wo... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4890845 | Game apparatus with rotating elements A game apparatus comprising a plurality of spherical members, a frame member and detent means for biasing the rotation of the spherical members is disclosed herein. Each spherical member has an axle projecting from it and includes a plurality of indicia d... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4886278 | Game aparatus An apparatus for playing a game comprising a board (1) and a plurality of playing pieces (6), the board defining at least two sets of intersecting grooves (2, 3), each intersection (4) forming a playing location during the playing of the game and the play... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4817957 | Variable maze board game A game played on a playing board having a plurality of intersecting lateral and longitudinal grooves defining a grid of squares. A plurality of laterally and longitudinally oriented movable bars on the grid define a maze therewith. The movable bars are op... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4793278 | Travel distance indicating method A travel distance indicator having an elongated distance scale and a slidable marker member straddling the distance scale. A front leg of the marker member has a front projection which slidably fits within a channel extending lengthwise across a front sur... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4783081 | Playing or games board on which several games can be played Playing or games board on whcih several games or the like can be played has a skeleton or framework which consists of a base with upright walls at the sides. Between these side walls a number of parallel upright partitions are placed. These partitions are... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4743029 | Docket diary game A docket diary game is provided and consists of a board game that allows each player to choose one season out of the year and answer questions based on each day of the months during that season. The first player to correctly answer questions for seven day... | 05/10/1988 |
