Musical entertainment board game

An apparatus for reproducing a portion of a melody so that individuals can attempt to identify the title of the melody after listening to said portion of said melody, said apparatus comprising:

• melody encoding means comprising a card having a plurality of holes in a predetermined pattern, said predetermined pattern of holes representing the muscial notes of said portion of melody to be reproduced;
• a set of light emitting diodes;
• a set of photodiodes facing said set of light emitting diodes, wherein said card is inserted between said set of light emitting diodes and said set of photodiodes so that said predetermined pattern of holes determines a predetermined sequence in which said photodiodes will receive light from said light emitting diodes and photodiodes to thereby generate said signals;
• comparator means for comparing signals output from a portion of said set of photodiodes to a predetermined input signal level to determine which ones of said portion of said set of photodiodes are at a high signal level and which ones of said portion of said set of photodiodes are at a low signal level;
• latching means for latching said high and low signals received from said comparator means in response to an input latching signal generated in accordance with at least one photodiode, other than said portion of said set photodiodes, going to a high signal level;
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• converter means for converting said signals determined by said predetermined sequence in which said photodiodes receive light from said light emitting diodes into said musical notes of said portion of said melody to be reproduced.