Variable point pool table and associated game
OwnerJames Ronald Carteeinventor
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Abstract
This invention pertains to a pool table that consists of 16 pockets rather than the normal six pockets but also includes the normal six pockets. Some of the pockets vary in size. Since the balls are rated as a face value in points and the pockets have a face value rated in points. The multiplying of one another produces a score for every single shot. The highest point scorer wins the game. This is why the invention is titled “Variable Point Pool.”
Claims2
A pool game table apparatus comprising a playing surface said playing surface having a peripheral ball rebound rail and at least sixteen ball receiving pickets, said at least 16 pockets defining a plurality of sets of pockets, each set of said plurality of sets having a predetermined specified location in said playing surface periphery and rails different from the remaining sets of pockets, and the pockets of each set being the same size and having a size different from the pockets of any other set,
- a set of pool balls, each of said balls having an assigned numbered value distinct from an assigned numbered value of any other ball of the set, such that a score awarded when playing a game is determined by the size of the pocket and the number of the ball received in that pocket.
A method of playing a pool game comprising the steps of;
- providing a playing surface having a peripheral ball rebound rail;
- providing a set of at least sixteen (16) pockets in said playing surface and rails;
- dividing said set of at least 26 pockets into a plurality of sets of pockets;
- Making each pocket of each set of said plurality of sets to have the same size but have a size different from the size of pockets of any other set of the plurality sets;
- providing a plurality of game play balls;
- assigning a valve to each ball, said value of each ball being different from the value of any other ball;
- playing a game by propelling a ball along said playing surface and into a pocket, whereby a score is determined by the combined value of a ball and the size of the pocket receiving the ball propelled therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.