US 4,364,569 A · Simulated golf board game

Abstract

A parlor game closely simulating the outdoor game of golf. The game board is a scaled-down plan view of an actual golf course having tees, fairways, rough areas, trouble areas, and greens. The game provides a first series of variables according to the arbitrary choice of each player including club selection and the competence level of play. The game further provides a second series of variables determined by the roll of the dice including troubles encountered hole positions on the greens, and alternate fairway routes on certain fairways. After selecting an appropriate club from a CLUB CARD, a player places his associated game piece, according to the roll of the dice, on the fairway area, rough area, or trouble area. Appropriate indicia marks represent the yardage along the fairway in five yard increments. As play proceeds, the game piece is advanced along the fairway according to the roll of the dice and encounters troubles along the way as determined from the dice and appropriate TROUBLE POSITION CARDS. By subsequent rolls of the dice and subsequent club selections, eventually, the player is able to place his game piece on the green; at this stage of the play, a HOLE POSITION CARD indicates the location of the ball on the green. By use of a PUTTING CARD upon subsequent rolls of the dice, the player ultimately sinks the ball in the hole and completes play to that hole.

A parlor game for participation by one or more players closely simulating the outdoor game of golf comprising:

a game board presented as a miniature, in plan view, of a full-scale golf course including appropriate pictorial representations of a tee;
a green distant from said tee;
a fairway generally extending between said tee and said green;
a plurality of troubles positioned on said fairway, adjacent to said fairway, and distant from said fairway;
and distance indicia at preselected intervals along said fairway to denote distance from said green;
at least one ball marker, representing
a player's ball, adapted to be moved manually and positioned on said game board;
first chance means for manipulation by a player for randomly generating numbers having two digits, the first of the digits being equal to or greater than the second of the digits;
a first source of information including separate sets of number indicia thereon relating to each of a plurality of clubs arbitrarily chosen by a player prior to manipulation of said chance means, said number indicia of each of said sets signifying travel of the player's ball when using a particular club according to the numbers generated in response to manipulation of said first chance means;
second chance means for manipulation by a player simultaneously with said first chance means for randomly indicating, from time to time, whether the player's ball following manipulation of said first and second chance means but before the ball lands on said green, is subject to a trouble situation;
a second source of information including trouble condition indicia to which the player's ball may be subjected at preselected intervals corresponding to said distance indicia and corresponding to said pictorial representations on said game board and responsive to an indication by said second chance means that said ball marker of the player is in a trouble condition signifying the extent of the trouble condition to which the player's ball is subjected upon manipulation of said first and second chance means;
third chance means for manipulation by a player for randomly generating numbers having one digit, one of said sets of number indicia of said first source of information relating to a driver club being in the form of a driver matrix, said number indicia of said driver matrix signifying travel of the player's ball according to a combination of the numbers generated in response to simultaneous manipulation of said first chance means and of said third chance means, said driver matrix including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows, each of said columns having a heading number capable of being generated by manipulation of said third chance means and each of said rows having an identification number capable of being generated in response to manipulation of said first chance means, an intersection of said row and of said column defined, respectively, by said identification numbers and said heading numbers generated in response to manipulation of said first and third chance means resulting in designation of a specific one of said number indicia signifying travel of the player's ball.

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Facts

Application

06/150,177Filed 15 May 1980

Granted

21 Dec 1982

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

A63F 3/0005
Board games simulating indoor or outdoor sporting games, e.g. bowling, basketball, boxing, croquet, athletics, jeu de boules, darts, snooker,…
A63F 9/04
Games not otherwise provided for: dice; Dice-boxes; Mechanical dice-throwing devices
A63F 2009/0471
Dice; Dice-boxes; Mechanical dice-throwing devices: dice with different colours
A63F 2009/0486
Dice; Dice-boxes; Mechanical dice-throwing devices: dice with symbols, e.g. indicating a direction for moving a playing piece

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