Musical game apparatus

A musical game apparatus comprising:

• a. at least eight different tune select designators that may be manually selected by a player;
• b. a mode selector for selecting at least a first mode and a second mode;
• c. synthesis means for generating musical notes and making them audible to the player;
• d. memory means for storing a plurality of pre-programmed sequences of musical notes;
• e. control means operable in said first mode for associating at the start of a game particular ones of said stored sequences each with two of said designators and for causing, during each turn of play within a game, said synthesis means to play a first musical note sequence associated with the designator first selected by the player within said turn of play and then determining whether a second designator also selected within said turn of play is also associated with said first sequence, said control means being operable in said second mode for respectively causing at least eight different single musical notes to be played by said synthesis means upon the respective manual selection of eight different tune select designators, thereby permitting all eight notes in a musical octave to be manually selected and played in any order, said mode selector being operable to select a third mode having a level of difficulty greater than that of said first mode.

Game apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of designators that may be selected by a player;
• first means for storing a plurality of pre-programmed tunes;
• second means for making the notes of said pre-programmed tunes audible to the player;
• third means for re-associating in a new and different fashion at the start of each game at least one of said stored pre-programmed tunes with at least two of said designators;
• fourth means for causing said second means to play the notes of the particular tune associated with a particular designator upon the selection of said designator by the player;
• and
• fifth means for indicating whether the player has been successful on a particular turn of play within a game by being the first to successively select a particular two of said designators that are associated with the same tune, which successful selection is termed a successful match of associated designators and a "win."