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US 4,883,636 AGranted
Baseball bingo game
OwnerWillard E. Fantle, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A bingo-type game uses baseball plays as the key to covering various zones on a card. The plays can be offensive or defensive plays, and various patterns can be used to determine a winner. Various markers on the game card can also be used to determine the play of that game card.
Claims15
A game card for use in combination with a baseball game, the card including:
- nine rows and nine columns which intersect to form a nine-by-nine matrix having eighty-one zones, each zone being associated with a particular inning and containing indicia which corresponds to a regulation offensive play associated with a baseball game;
- the card further including means for identifying the rows according to the at-bat attempts of one team participating in the baseball game, and further means for identifying the columns according to the at-bat attempts of the other team participating in the baseball game;
- means for identifying when said one team executes the regulation offensive play indicated in a particular zone during its at-bat attempt in the inning associated with that particular zone;
- and
- means for identifying when the other team executes the regulation offensive play indicated in a particular zone during its at-bat attempt in the inning associated with that particular zone.
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A method of playing a game comprising:
- providing a multiplicity of game cards;
- dividing each game card into nine rows and nine columns which intersect to define eighty-one zones;
- numbering said rows consecutively from 1 to 9;
- numbering said columns consecutively from 1 to 9;
- identifying said rows to correspond to one team's at-bat attempts during each inning of a baseball game;
- identifying said columns to correspond to another team's at-bat attempts during each inning of the baseball game;
- placing an indicator associated with a regulation offensive play occurring in the baseball game in each zone;
- for each inning, covering a zone if either team carries out the offensive play designated by the indicator in such zone;
- and
- designating a card a winner when a predetermined pattern of zones are covered.
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A game card for use in combination with a baseball game, the game card including:
- nine rows and nine columns which intersect to form a nine-by-nine matrix having eighty-one zones, each zone being associated with a particular inning and containing indicia which corresponds to a regulation defensive play associated with a baseball game;
- the card further including means for identifying the rows according to the defensive attempts of one team participating in the baseball game, and further means for identifying the columns according to the defensive attempts of the other team participating in the baseball game;
- means for identifying when said one team executes the regulation defensive play indicated in a particular zone during its in-field attempt in the inning associated with that particular zone;
- and
- means for identifying when the other team executes the regulation defensive play indicated in a particular zone during its in-field attempt in the inning associated with that particular zone.
2 more elements
A method of playing a game comprising:
- providing a multiplicity of game cards;
- dividing each game card into nine rows and nine columns which intersect to define eighty-one zones;
- numbering said rows consecutively from 1 to 9;
- numbering said columns consecutively from 1 to 9;
- identifying said rows to correspond to one team's in-field attempts during each inning of a baseball game;
- identifying said columns to correspond to another team's in-field attempts during each inning of the baseball game;
- placing an indicator associated with a regulation defensive play occurring in the baseball game in each zone;
- for each inning, covering a zone if either team carries out the defensive play designated by the indicator in such zone;
- and
- designating a card a winner when a predetermined pattern of zones are covered.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.