Patent Application
20250186877
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The disclosure relates to game assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new game assembly for playing a tossing game. Tossing games provide entertainment and hone skills for players and variations of such tossing games are desirable for maintaining enjoyment of users.
The prior art relates to game assemblies, which may comprise stackable cans to be knocked down by batted balls or by pitched balls. The prior art also may comprise stackable blocks to be knocked down by thrown balls. What is lacking in the prior art is a game assembly comprising two sets of cans, one set for forming a stack of cans and the other set for tossing at the stack of cans.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a plurality of set objects and a plurality of tossing articles. Each set object has opposed ends, which are substantially parallel planar so that the set objects are positionable in a set of rows, wherein a first one of the rows is positioned on a ground surface and additional rows, if added, are stacked sequentially upon the first one of the rows and decrease in number of set objects by one set object for each additional row. Each tossing article has a planar surface so that a tossing article of a first player is stackable atop the set of rows. A second player thus is positioned to toss a tossing article of the second player at the set of rows and the tossing article of the first player with the intention of knocking the tossing article of the first player to the ground surface.
Another embodiment of the disclosure includes a tossing game playing kit, which comprises the tossing game assembly, according to the disclosure above, and a die. The die is configured to be rolled to determine an aspect, such as a first player, of a tossing game. The tossing game playing kit also may include an instruction, which comprises at least one set of rules for playing a tossing game, such as hit the can.
Yet another embodiment of the disclosure includes a method for playing a tossing game, which entails provision of a tossing game playing kit, according to the disclosure above. Steps of the method include positioning respective set objects in a first one of the rows on a ground surface, optionally stacking additional rows sequentially upon the first one, rolling the die to determine a first player, stacking the first player's tossing article atop the set of rows, and tossing a tossing article of a second player at the set of rows and the tossing article of the first player with the intention of knocking the tossing article of the first player to the ground surface. The method may include additional steps, per the instruction, for retrieving tossing articles, running of the second player to a specified position, and tagging of the second player by the first player prior to reaching the specified position.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
Each tossing article 14 has a planar surface 22 so that a tossing article 14 of a first player is stackable atop the set of rows 18. A second player thus is positioned to toss a tossing article 14 of the second player at the set of rows 18 and the tossing article 14 of the first player with the intention of knocking the tossing article 14 of the first player to the ground surface 20. The plurality of set objects 12 comprises two, five, or nine set objects 12. The plurality of set objects 12 typically will comprise five set objects 12, as is shown in
The tossing articles 14 may be sized and shaped substantially as are the set objects 12, as is shown in
The present invention also anticipates a tossing game playing kit 24, which comprises the tossing game assembly 10, according to the specification above, and a die 26. The die 26 is configured to be rolled to determine an aspect of a tossing game, such as a first player. The tossing game playing kit 24 also may include an instruction 28, as is shown in
In use, the tossing game playing kit 24 enables a method for playing a tossing game 32, which entails provision of a tossing game playing kit 24, according to the specification above. A first step 34 of the method 32 is positioning respective set objects 12 in a first one of the rows 18 on a ground surface 20. A second step 36 of the method 32 is optionally stacking additional rows 18 sequentially upon the first one and decreasing the number of set objects 12 by one set object 12 for each additional row 18. A third step 38 of the method 32 is rolling the die 26 to determine a first player of the tossing game. A fourth step 40 of the method 32 is stacking a tossing article 14 of the first player atop the set of rows 18. A fifth step 42 of the method 32 is tossing a tossing article 14 of a second player at the set of rows 18 and the tossing article 14 of the first player with the intention of knocking the tossing article 14 of the first player to the ground surface 20. The method 32 may include additional steps, per the instruction 28, for retrieving tossing articles 14, restacking of the set objects 12, running of the second player to a specified position, and tagging of the second player by the first player prior to reaching the specified position.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
