Rebound-action sports board game

• US 20040007818A1
• Filed: 04/25/2003
• Published: 01/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael Shane Newman
• Original Assignee: Michael Shane Newman
• Inventors: Newman, Michael Shane
• Application Number:
  US10/415,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20040007818A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/317
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 7/0668 the ball being flicked with a finger or hit with a stick, cue or sliding disc which are not connected to the table

Abstract

A game for one or more players comprising the following components: a set of tokens; a puck or ball adapted to rebound off a surface; a playing surface marked with a plurality of various indicia; a rebound surface relocatably mountable on the playing surface; a scoring zone relocatably mountable on the playing surface; the game further comprising of the following steps: each player throwing one or more tokens onto the playing surface wherein the indicium on which a token lands determines one or more of the number of scoring attempts allowed to the player, the points-value of a score and the level of difficulty of a scoring attempt in terms of the relative positions of the scoring zone and the rebound surface; placing the rebound surface and the scoring zone in their determined positions; as determined by the throwing of the tokens, each player causing the puck or ball to rebound off the rebound surface and, by that action, to strike or pass through a predetermined area on the scoring zone.

Claims

1. A game for one or more players comprising the following components:

a set of tokens;

a puck or ball adapted to rebound off a surface;

a playing surface marked with a plurality of various indicia;

a rebound surface relocatably mountable on the playing surface;

a scoring zone relocatably mountable on the playing surface;

the game further comprising of the following steps;

each player throwing one or more tokens onto the playing surface wherein the indicium on which a token lands determines one or more of the number of scoring attempts allowed to the player, the points-value of a score and the level of difficulty of a scoring attempt in terms of the relative positions of the scoring zone and the rebound surface.;

placing the rebound surface and the scoring zone in their determined positions;

as determined by the throwing of the tokens, each player causing the puck or ball to rebound off the rebound surface and, by that action, to strike or pass through a predetermined area on the scoring zone.

2. A game according to claim 1 in which scoring is attempted by using a resilient puck and is achieved by rebounding the puck from the rebound surface and causing it to roll on its edge to the scoring zone.

3. A game according to claim 1 or 2 in which rules are provided to tailor the game to one or more specific outdoor sports.

4. A game according to claim 1, 2 or 3 further according to the soccer rules as described herein.

5. A game according to claim 1, 2 or 3 further according to the rugby rules as described herein.

6. A game according to claim 1, 2 or 3 further according to the tennis rules as described herein.