Bingo method of scoring bowling

• US 5,437,575 A
• Filed: 06/30/1994
• Issued: 08/01/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John Douglass Jr
• Original Assignee: John Douglass Jr
• Inventors: Douglass, John Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Millin, Vincent
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pierce, William M.
• Application Number:
  US08/269,442
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 473/54, 473/65, 473/70, 273/139, 273/269, 273/270, 273/277
• US Class Current: 473/54
• CPC Class Codes: A63D 1/00 Installations for bowling games, e.g. bowling-alleys or bocce courts bowling greens A63C19/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 11/0051 Indicators of values, e.g. score counters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0625 Devices for filling-in or checking
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 7/0005 played on a table, the ball or other playing body being rolled or slid from one side of the table in more than one direction or having more than one entering position on this same side, e.g. shuffle boards goal posts per se A63F7/305; miniature bowling-alleys A63D3/00

Abstract

A game method utilizing a particular number of bowling pins that are set up in a formation which may be conventional to bowling. A bowling ball is directed at the bowling pins in order to topple the same. The topple bowling pins are transferred into a number which is indicated on a game board having a number of spaces, each with an assigned number. The spaces on the game board are arranged in a definite pattern. Successive placements of indicia on the game board are collated according to an arrangement forming a selected part of the game board pattern.

Claims

1. A game method of using a bowling surface including bowling pins and a bowling ball in combination with the steps of:

a. setting a particular number of bowling pins in a formation on the bowling surface;

b. repeatedly rolling the bowling ball along the bowling surface in an effort to contact and topple the bowling pins;

c. determining a particular number selectively representing a numeric assignment of each of the bowling pins topped with each roll of the bowling ball and noting the total number of pins toppled by each roll of the bowling ball;

d. providing a game board with a plurality of spaces each having a number corresponding to a possible particular number determined in said step of determining a particular number, said game board spaces being arranged in a particular pattern on said game board;

e. repeatedly placing an indicia on a space of said game board corresponding to each particular number determined in said step of determining a particular number; and

f. collating said repeated placements of indicia on said game board according to an arrangement forming a selected portion of said game board pattern.

2. The game method of claim 1 in which said indicia is an object.

3. The game method of claim 1 in which said plurality of spaces each having a number include a multiplicity of said spaces having the same number.