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US 2006/0066042 A1Published application
Playing surface for a game and method of using a game playing surface
OwnerAnthony DiFrancescoinventor
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Abstract
The invention may be embodied as a playing surface. Such a playing surface may include a first boundary wall, a second boundary wall, a first zone separator and a second zone separator. The second zone separator may be spaced apart from the first zone separator in order to provide a first zone area residing between the first zone separator and the second zone separator. The zone separators may each have an angled surface which are positioned so that a sphere may be rolled toward the angled surface of the zone separator, roll over the zone separator and into a zone area.
Claims17
A playing surface, comprising:
- a first boundary wall,;
- a second boundary wall;
- a first zone separator extending between the first boundary wall and the second boundary wall, the first zone separator having an angled surface that is sloped to inhibit but not prevent a game piece from traversing the first zone separator;
- a second zone separator extending between the first boundary wall and the second boundary wall, the second zone separator having an angled surface that is sloped to inhibit but not prevent a game piece from traversing the second zone separator, the second zone separator being spaced from the first zone separator in order to present a first zone area residing between the first zone separator and the second zone separator;
- the angled surfaces of the zone separators being positioned so that a sphere that is rolled toward the angled surface of one of the zone separators must traverse that zone separator in order to access the first zone area, and while traversing that zone separator the sphere is in rolling contact with that zone separator, and the sphere is inhibited but not prevented from leaving the first zone area by the other of the zone separators.
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A method of playing a game, comprising:
- providing a playing surface having (a) a first boundary wall, (b) a second boundary wall, (c) a first zone separator extending between the first boundary wall and the second boundary wall, the first zone separator having an angled surface, and (d) a second zone separator extending between the first boundary wall and the second boundary wall, the second zone separator having an angled surface, the second zone separator being spaced from the first zone separator in order to present a first zone residing between the first zone separator and the second zone separator,
- providing a substantially spherical game piece;
- rolling the game piece toward the playing surface, so that the game piece rolls over the angled surface of the first zone separator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.