US 5,090,735 AGranted

Seasonal game

AssigneeMeaney Enterprises, Inc.

InventorsStacey B. Meaney, Gregory J. Meaney, David W. Schropfer, Harold L. Rogers

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Abstract

A game which combines skill and chance is disclosed for one or more players. According to the game, each player chooses, beforehand, the outcomes of actual athletic contests. The athletic contests are played in the course of a playing season by existing teams belonging to existing leagues. There are weekly contests, playoff contests, and a championship contest. Each player records his own choices and successes in a bound booklet preprinted with the opposing teams for each of the weekly contests, for the playoff games, and for the championship contest. A group record is kept on a board containing the names of each of the players, and provision for manually inserting the total number of successful choices of each player for each successive week, the cumulative successful choices of each player for all of the preceding weeks of the contest season continuing through the playoffs and concluding with the championship contest. Markers with pressure sensitive adhesive are provided for keeping track of individual contest winners, also, winners for the week and for the season.

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Dependent claims

A game which combines skill and chance for participation by one or more players who seek to correctly choose, beforehand, the outcomes of actual athletic contests played by a plurality of opposing teams belonging to a league in the course of a playing season which involves weekly contests, playoff contests, and a championship contest, said game of chance comprising:

weekly notation means including a plurality of record means, each record means indicating the opposing teams for each of the weekly contests, the opposing teams for the playoff contests, and the opposing teams for the championship contest, and indicated locations for manually inserting, respectively, the name of the player and the date;
a plurality of first marker means including first indicia thereon and being selectively attachable to said record means for overlying a designated portion of each of said record means for each of the contests scheduled for one week for which a player has successfully chosen the winning team;
board means including a plurality of indicated locations, respectively, for manually inserting the names of each of the players, the total number of successful choices of each player for each successive week, the cumulative successful choices of each player for all of the preceding weeks of the contest season continuing through the playoffs and concluding with the championship contest and including a plurality of reception locations for receiving a plurality of second marker means thereon;
said plurality of second marker means including second indicia thereon and being selectively attachable to said board means for overlying each of said reception locations for which a player has successfully chosen the largest number of winning teams for the week;
whereby the player with the largest cumulative number of successful choices for the playing season is the winner of the game.

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In a game combining skill and chance for participation by one or more players who seek to successfully choose, beforehand, the outcomes of actual athletic contests played by a plurality of opposing teams belonging to a league in the course of a playing season which involves weekly contests, playoff contests, and a championship contest, said game of chance including a plurality of record means, each record means indicating the opposing teams for each of the weekly contests, the opposing teams for the playoff contests, and the opposing teams for the championship contest, and indicated locations for manually inserting, respectively, the name of the player and the date, and a board means including a plurality of indicated locations, respectively, for manually inserting the names of each of the players, the total number of successful choices of each player for each successive week, the cumulative successful choices of each player for all of the preceding weeks of the contest season continuing through the playoffs and concluding with the championship contest, and comprising the steps, for each player, of:

before the contests scheduled for a week occur, marking the record means for each of the weekly contests to indicate the chosen winner;
after all of the contests scheduled for the week have occurred, selectively affixing a first marker means on a designated portion of the record means to indicate each of the successful choices;
after all of the contests scheduled for the week have occurred, selectively affixing a second marker means on the board means to indicate the player who has selected the most successful choices;
and
after all of the contests scheduled for the week have occurred, manually inserting on the board means the total number of successful choices for the week, the cumulative successful choices for all of the preceding weeks of the contest season continuing through the playoffs and concluding with the championship contest.

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