Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-13
2001-11-27
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
C273S236000, C273S244000, C273S259000, C273S277000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06322073
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a football board game and more particularly pertains to providing a game t simulate a real football game.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of board games of known designs and configurations is known in the prior art. More specifically, board games of known designs and configurations previously devised and utilized for the purpose of playing games on boards through various methods and apparatuses are known to consist basically of familiar, expected, and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which has been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
The prior art discloses a large number or board games of known designs and configurations. By way of example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,186,461 to Tucker issued Feb. 16, 1993, discloses a simulated football board game. U.S. Pat. No. 5,158,301 to Martukovich, Jr., issued Oct. 27, 1992, discloses a football board game. U.S. Pat. No. 4,183,529, to Hynson, issued Jan. 15, 1980, discloses a football game. U.S. Pat. No. 3,103,361 to Board issued Sep. 10, 1963, discloses a football game with play selecting cards. U.S. Pat. No. 1,701,655 to Andrews, issued Feb. 12, 1920, discloses a table football game. Foreign patents EP 0 205 690 A1 to Caughie et al, issue/priority date Jun. 17, 1985, discloses a football game board, and WO 91/00,786 to Nugent et al, issue/priority date Jan. 23, 1992, discloses an apparatus for playing a board game.
In this respect, the football board game according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a game t simulate a real football game.
Therefore, it can be appreciated that there exists a continuing need for a new and improved football board game which can be used for providing a game t simulate a real football game. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of board games of known designs and configurations now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved football board game. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved football board game and method which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a football board game. The board game includes a board formed in a rectangular configuration of two essentially square halves pivotably coupled together at a fold line. A playing surface has a central indicia with separate words on each side of the fold line, end zones at the opposite ends parallel with the center fold line with elongated margins between the end zones. Each margin has interiorly, a plurality of apertures for receipt of objects, indicia indicating yardage adjacent the edges thereof and arrows in opposite directions located between the apertures and the yard markers. A pair of pegs are positioned in the apertures, one peg having a cube with “down marker” indicia on each vertical face and the other having a football constituting a ball position marker. The game includes a plurality of decks of similarly configured playing cards, each deck having similar indicia on one side and a different color on the other side and positioned at opposite ends of the board. A pad of score cards indicates across the top: quarter, dealer, contestant one, contestant two; and down one side under the quarter designation: one, two, half, score, three, four, and final scores. A contestant may be an individual or a team having two or more individuals. Also included is a book of rules for the game. The rules include placing the game board on a flat surface such as a table between the contestants, playing wherein the offensive contestant now leading a card and taking the trick gains the number of yards corresponding to that cards yardage value, if the offensive contestant partner takes the trick he will lead the next trick, if the defensive contestant takes the trick, the offensive contestant loses the number of yards or difference between the highest offensive contestant card and the card value that takes the trick, plus loss of down, if the defensive contestant takes a trick with a face card and causes a loss of ten or more yards, it becomes a fumble in which case, the correct calling of the color of a picked card determines which contestant recovers with the recovering contestant becoming the offensive contestant.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims attached.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of descriptions and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved football board game which has all of the advantages of the prior art board games of known designs and configurations and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved football board game which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is further object of the present invention to provide a new and improved football board game which is of durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved football board game which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such football board game economically available to the buying public.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a football board game for providing a game to simulate a real football game.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a football board game. The board game includes a board formed in a rectangular configuration of two essentially square halves pivotably coupled together at a fold line. A playing surface has a central indicia with separate words on each side of the fold line, end zones at the opposite ends parallel with the center fold line with elongated margins between the end zones. Each margin has interiorly, a plurality of apertures for receipt of objects, indicia indicating yardage adjacent the edges thereof and arrows in opposite directions located between the apertures and the yard markers. A pair of pegs are positioned in the apertures, one peg having a cube with “down marker” indicia on each vertical face and the other having a football constituting a ball position marker. The game include
Layno Benjamin H.
Mendiratta V K
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