Flying disc apparatus and methods of use

• US 20030184013A1
• Filed: 01/27/2003
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David Jeffrey Chodosh
• Original Assignee: David Jeffrey Chodosh
• Inventors: Chodosh, David Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US10/352,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20030184013A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/139
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/06 Ring or disc tossing games , e.g. quoits; Throwing or tossing games, e.g. using balls; Games for manually rolling balls, e.g. marbles
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/0286 Discs
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/18 Question-and-answer games
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/18 Throwing or slinging toys, e.g. flying disc toys discs used in athletics A63B65/10as part of a game A63F9/02; sling weapons F41B3/00; spring toy guns F41B7/08

Abstract

A flying disc is provided that includes indicia disposed at different radians about a center of the flying disc for defining a flying disc game. A method of playing a game with a flying disc.

Claims

1. A flying disc comprising:

indicia disposed at different radians about a center of the flying disc for defining a flying disc game.

2. The flying disc of claim 1, wherein the indicia are selected from any one or more of the groups consisting of numbers, letters, words, phrases, symbols, and pictorial representations.

3. The flying disc of claim 2, further comprising a plurality of scoring sections disposed at different radians about a center of the disc, wherein each scoring section comprises at least one of the indicia.

4. The flying disc of claim 3, wherein each of the plurality of scoring sections extends out at least adjacent to an outer edge of the flying disc.

5. The flying disc of claim 3, wherein each scoring section further comprises a color designator.

6. The flying disc of claim 1, wherein the indicia comprise numbers.

7. The flying disc of claim 6, further comprising a plurality of scoring sections, wherein each of the plurality of scoring sections comprises at least one of the numbers.

8. The flying disc of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of scoring sections further comprises a color designator.

9. The flying disc of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of scoring sections is adjacent to another scoring section.

10. The flying disc of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of scoring sections is adjacent to an unmarked area.

11. The flying disc of claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of scoring sections extends out at least adjacent to an outer edge of the flying disc.

12. The flying disc of claim 1, wherein the indicia comprise numbers, pictorial representations and a plurality of colored sections.

13. The flying disc of claim 12, further comprising a plurality of numeric scoring sections, wherein each numeric scoring sections includes at least one of the numbers.

14. The flying disc of claim 12, wherein each of the plurality of colored sections overlaps at least two of the plurality of numeric scoring sections.

15. A game comprising:

a flying disc having a plurality of trivia category indicators that each indicate one of a plurality of trivia categories; and

a plurality of trivia cards having a trivia question and answer, wherein each trivia card is designated as being in one of the plurality of trivia categories.

16. The game of claim 15, wherein each of the plurality trivia category indicators is disposed at a different radians about a center of the flying disc.

17. The game of claim 15, wherein each trivia category indicator includes at least one word or phrase.

18. The flying disc of claim 15, further comprising a plurality of trivia sections, wherein each trivia section comprises one of the plurality of trivia category indicators.

19. The game of claim 18, wherein each of the plurality of trivia sections further includes a different color designator.

20. A game comprising:

a flying disc having a plurality of colored sections, wherein each of the plurality of colored sections comprises one of a plurality of different colors; and

a target ball having a plurality of colored sections, wherein each of the plurality of colored sections of the target ball comprises a different one of the plurality of different colors.

21. A method of at least two players playing a flying disc game, wherein the game includes a flying disc comprising a plurality of scoring sections, with each such scoring section comprising a numeric value, the method comprising:

each player catching a throw of said disc; and

scoring points when each of the players catch the disc in one of the scoring sections according to the numeric value of the scoring section in which the disc is caught.

22. The method of claim 21, comprising assigning a win to one of the players, after a predetermined number of attempted catches, based on the scoring points.

23. The method of claim 21, comprising assigning a win to one of the players when that player'"'"'s scoring points meets or exceeds a predetermined point value.

24. A method of at least two players playing a flying disc game, the game comprising a flying disc comprising a plurality of scoring sections, with each such scoring section comprising a different numeric value, the method comprising:

each player catching a throw of said disc; and

assigning a win to one of the players when that player either consecutively or non-consecutively catches the disc in each scoring section in a sequence of values of the numeric value in the scoring sections from the highest numerically valued scoring section to the lowest numerically valued scoring section or vice versa.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein one of the players is assigned a win when that player consecutively catches the disc in each scoring section in an order between the highest numerically valued scoring section and the lowest numerically valued scoring section.

26. A method of at least two players playing a flying disc game, wherein the game comprises a flying disc comprising a plurality of scoring sections, with each such scoring section including a numeric value and a suit indicator chosen from the group consisting of colors, patterns, letters, words and symbols, the method comprising:

each player catching a throw of the disc, wherein the player that catches the disc receives a score corresponding to the numeric value and suit indicator on the disc in the scoring section where the player catches the disc;

accumulating, for each player, an initial hand of cards having numeric values and suit indicators corresponding to scoring sections of the disc where the disc is caught; and

assigning a win to one of the players having an initial hand of cards with the highest poker value.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising allowing each player to discard any unwanted card from that player'"'"'s initial hand of cards and that player receiving a throw of the disc and a chance to score a new card for each card that the player discards to form a final hand.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising assigning a win to one of the players having an final hand of cards with the highest poker value.

29. A method of at least two players playing a flying disc game, wherein the game comprises a flying disc comprising a plurality of scoring sections, with each such scoring section comprises one of a plurality of pictorial representations of a flying disc stunt, the method comprising:

one of the at least two players selecting a stunt to perform from among the plurality of pictorial representations of flying disc stunts and attempting to perform the selected stunt, wherein if the player is successful in performing the selected stunt each player must attempt the stunt until either each player performs the stunt successfully or one player performs the stunt unsuccessfully;

each player receiving a successive letter in a predetermined word each time that player unsuccessfully completes a stunt immediately after a previous player successfully completes an identical stunt; and

assigning a win to one of the players when each of the other players spells the predetermined word.

30. A method of at least two players playing a flying disc game, wherein the game comprises a flying disc comprising a plurality of scoring sections, with each such scoring section comprising a different color, the method comprising:

a catcher receiving a throw of said disc;

a thrower predetermining one of the colors of the scoring sections where the catcher must catch the disc, wherein if the catcher catches the thrown disc in the scoring section that contains the predetermined color, the thrower receives an amount of points that is designated for that color and wherein if the catcher does not catch the thrown disc in the scoring section that contains the predetermined color, the catcher receives the amount of points that is designated for that color.

31. The method of claim 30, further comprising assigning a win to one of the players when after a predetermined number of throws that player has a lowest amount of accumulated points.

32. The method of claim 30, further comprising assigning a loss to one of the players when that player'"'"'s accumulated points meets or exceeds a predetermined point value.

33. A method of at least two players playing a flying disc game, wherein the game comprises a flying disc comprising a plurality of scoring sections, with each such scoring section comprising a word or phrase that designates a trivia category, the method comprising:

each player catching the thrown disc in one of the scoring sections; and

that player answering a trivia question from the trivia category based on where the player catches the disc in one of the scoring sections.

34. The method of claim 33, further comprising assigning a win to one of the players when that player consecutively or non-consecutively correctly answers a trivia question from each trivia category.

35. The method of claim 33, further comprising assigning a win to one of the players when that player consecutively correctly answers a trivia question from each trivia category.

36. A method of at least two players playing a flying disc game, wherein the game comprises a flying disc and a target ball, with the flying disc comprising a plurality of scoring sections, with each such scoring section comprising a different one of a plurality of different colors, and wherein the target ball comprises a plurality of colored sections each having a different one of the plurality of different colors, the method comprising:

each player throwing the flying disc at the target ball;

each player scoring a color match when that player'"'"'s thrown disc has a colored section pointing to one of the sections of the target ball that is of the same color; and

assigning a win to one of the players when that player has a color match and that player'"'"'s thrown disc is closest to the target ball or that player'"'"'s thrown disc is closest to the target ball in the case where no player has a color match.