Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1975-02-10
1976-11-09
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273148R, A63F 900
Patent
active
039906981
ABSTRACT:
A game apparatus including two sets of playing cards and a timing device. One of the sets of cards each includes indicia on one side thereof representative of an activity. The second set of playing cards each includes indicia which is identical to a portion of the indicia on one of the playing cards of the first set so that during the play of the game a card from the second set can be matched with a card from the first set by matching the identical indicia portions. The timing device includes an internal motor and governor which rotates a pointer on an elapsed time dial which times the period in which a player is attempting to make a matched pair of cards. The timer includes two manually actuatable levers which control the direction of rotation of the pointer. The pointer begins at a zero or reference position and rotates in one direction while the first player attempts to make a match. After a match is accomplished the player depresses one of the levers, causing the pointer to rotate in the opposite direction back toward the reference point and past the reference point if the opposing player requires a longer period of time to make a match. As soon as the opponent makes a match he then depresses the other lever causing the pointer to reverse again. This sequence is continued until all of the cards have been matched. Thereafter the timer is stopped by a master control button. The winner is determined to be the player who has used the least total time to make his matches. Since the timing device has automatically summed the differences between the players' time periods, the winner can be read directly from the dial as the one indicated to have used the least total time.
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"Canasta" Book of 1000 Family Games, p. 189, The Reader's Digest Assoc., Inc., Pleasantville, N.Y.
Browne William R.
Marvin Glass & Associates
Pinkham Richard C.
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