Bowling board game apparatus
OwnerSteven W. Briem, Joseph A. Figliomeniinventors
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Abstract
A bowling board game apparatus includes a deck of action cards, a deck of percentage cards, a pin die with twelve sides, and an action die with twelve sides. Each side of the pin die contains indicia indicating the number of pins knocked down or an instruction that a player is to draw an action card. Each side of the action die contains one of three action commands. The apparatus further includes a matrix chart and a pad of score cards. The matrix chart is employed to determine the number of pins knocked down when a player has been instructed to draw a percentage card.
Claims11
An apparatus for playing a board game in which players roll dice and draw cards to simulate the action of bowling in a bowling alley and in which the object of play is to score the highest point total after ten frames of play, said apparatus comprising:
- a first deck of cards, each of the cards of said first deck having a first common indicia on its back side and each of the cards of said first deck having an action command on the face side thereof;
- a second deck of cards, each of the cards of said second deck having a second common indicia on its back side and each of the cards of said second deck having a percentage number on the face side thereof;
- a first die having a plurality of sides, some of the sides of said first die having indicia indicating a number of pins knocked down after a roll of said first die and the remaining sides of said first die having said first common indicia indicating that a player is to draw a card from said first deck of cards;
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- a second die having a plurality of sides, some of the sides of said second die having indicia indicating that the player rolled a spare, or a miss, and the remaining sides of said second die having said second common indicia indicating that a player is to draw a card from said second deck of cards.
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