EP0766980A1 - Appareil pour jouer à un jeu de table - Google Patents

Appareil pour jouer à un jeu de table Download PDF

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EP0766980A1
EP0766980A1 EP95307013A EP95307013A EP0766980A1 EP 0766980 A1 EP0766980 A1 EP 0766980A1 EP 95307013 A EP95307013 A EP 95307013A EP 95307013 A EP95307013 A EP 95307013A EP 0766980 A1 EP0766980 A1 EP 0766980A1
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James Graham Brightmore
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/0023—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks played on a table from all sides, e.g. marble games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/0023—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks played on a table from all sides, e.g. marble games
    • A63F2007/0047—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks played on a table from all sides, e.g. marble games simulating pool, snooker or billiards

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  • the present invention relates to apparatus for playing a board game and, more particularly, to a board game which simulates snooker or pool.
  • Snooker and pool are very popular games which are widely enjoyed by television viewers and by those participants who can access a table in a public house or other public forum or who can afford to have a table in their own home. Notwithstanding the cost of the equipment, however, the space which a snooker or pool table occupies is prohibitive to many acquiring the apparatus for their own homes.
  • apparatus for playing a game which simulates snooker or pool comprises: a board or table marked to simulate a snooker or pool table; hand held flicking means which may comprise a tiddly wink; and a plurality of tiddly winks, and a set of rules which dictate game play, said rules dictating that suitably coloured tiddly winks respectively represent black or coloured snooker or pool balls which are flicked, during game play by said flicking means to jump and thereby be displaced into a simulated snooker or pool table pocket on said board or table.
  • a tiddly-wink is a disc that is used or usable in the popular long-standing English game of tiddly-winks. In the game one disc is used to flick another by transiently compressing the edge of the second disc against a surface causing the second disc to rebound jumping up and away from its rest place.
  • the disc (see Figure 2) is commonly formed of a slightly resiliently flexible plastics material and with at least one face cambered to assist the flicking action.
  • the game of the present invention combines the fun of playing with tiddly-winks, causing them to jump from one location to another, with the environment of a snooker or pool game, greatly enhancing user enjoyment and enabling a game which would otherwise be played with more than a dozen balls to be played with a corresponding number of playing pieces, namely tiddly-winks, on a relatively compact surface. With playing pieces other than tiddly-winks such a compact game is not readily achievable.
  • the pockets are demarcated by printed lines marked upon the board at positions on the periphery of the board which simulate the respective positions of the pockets of a snooker or pool table.
  • receptacle means such as, for example, egg cups may be provided at the locations on the board which represent the positions of the pockets.
  • the flicking means is used directly to flick one of the coloured or black ball representing tiddly-winks without intermediary of a cue ball-representing tiddly-wink.
  • the rules which dictate game play may alternatively dictate that firstly a tiddly wink which simulates the cue ball is flicked to land upon one of said coloured/black ball-representing tiddly winks and that then the latter tiddly winks are flicked to attempt to land them in a respective said pocket.
  • the order of landing upon or flicking respective coloured or black ball representing tiddly winks is suitably the same as is dictated by the normal rules for playing of snooker or pool.
  • the rules for game play are effectively the same as those for snooker or pool in that scoring is achieved by flicking the ball-denoting tiddly wink into a pocket and if the player misses, the turn passes to the other participant in the game.
  • the pockets 1 around the periphery of the board within the margin are located at the ends and intermediate region in relative positions just as they are in the genuine table. They do not, however, comprise holes with nets. Instead, they may simply comprise holes or may comprise line marked zones to represent holes or may comprise receptacles such as for example egg cups placed at the respective positions.
  • Any tiddly wink landing outside on a line or outside of the playing area is placed back in the triangle or on the correct colour spots marked on the board.
  • the score of the game may be kept by using a score board or clip board.
  • the initial positions of the tiddly winks representing the balls are marked upon the board in the conventional positions, viz (for snooker): a triangle of red ball-indicating tiddly winks 3 with pink 4 and black 5 ball-indicating tiddly winks respectively forward and behind the triangle of reds 3.
  • the blue ball-indicating tiddly wink 6 being positioned forward of the pink 4 and the yellow 7, brown 8 and green 9 representing tiddly winks being positioned along the line at the opposing end of the board.
  • the object is to flick the red tiddly-wink in one jump into one of the pockets 1. If the opening player fails to flick the tiddly-wink in that single move into the pocket 1 the turn moves on to the other player. If the red tiddly-wink 3 not only misses falling into a pocket 1 but also goes out of play (i.e off the playing surface) the other player/opponent can replace the red tiddly-wink 3 on its starting position within the triangle.
  • Scoring in the game is suitably evaluated on the following basis: potting of a red tiddly-wink scores one point, a yellow tiddly-wink two points, a green tiddly-wink three points, a brown tiddly-wink four points, a blue tiddly-wink five points, pink tiddly-wink six points and black tiddly-wink seven points.
  • the player flicks one of the tiddly-winks out of play the following range of penalty points are awarded against him: four points for a red, yellow, green or brown and five, six and seven points, respectively, for blue, pink or black.
  • the winner of the game is the one who, upon completion of the game, attains the highest overall score once penalty points have been deducted.
  • each player attempts to pot, i.e jump a tiddly-wink into a pocket, the tiddly-wink of his chosen colour and if he succeeds first is obliged to play that colour until the end of that game whilst the other player must play the alternative colour.
  • Penalty points are awarded against a player if his/her tiddly-wink goes out of play. In this case the penalty is that the opponent has two shots instead. If a player accidentally knocks the black tiddly-wink into a pocket then the game is won by the opponent automatically.
  • the board is a table which may, for example, be a miniaturised snooker or pool table or may be a table that doubles as a general purpose table as well as being a snooker or pool table for the purposes of the invention.
  • the pockets may comprise recesses, apertures or any other receptacle means in or on the board or table.

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EP0917896A1 (fr) * 1997-11-04 1999-05-26 FRABOSK CASALINGHI S.p.A. Dispositf pour jouer des jeux de table sportifs ou similaires
US20210146232A1 (en) * 2019-11-18 2021-05-20 Robert Becker Method for playing a skill-based strategy game

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GB658369A (en) * 1949-07-25 1951-10-10 George Sidney Millard Improvements in apparatus for playing a table game
US3741544A (en) * 1970-02-20 1973-06-26 Affiliated Hospital Prod Surface projectile game apparatus having removable and reversable game-playing panel
GB2208105A (en) * 1987-06-09 1989-03-01 Prem Prakash Vijh Board game
GB2289227A (en) * 1994-06-30 1995-11-15 James Graham Brightmore Tiddlywink snooker or pool

Patent Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB658369A (en) * 1949-07-25 1951-10-10 George Sidney Millard Improvements in apparatus for playing a table game
US3741544A (en) * 1970-02-20 1973-06-26 Affiliated Hospital Prod Surface projectile game apparatus having removable and reversable game-playing panel
GB2208105A (en) * 1987-06-09 1989-03-01 Prem Prakash Vijh Board game
GB2289227A (en) * 1994-06-30 1995-11-15 James Graham Brightmore Tiddlywink snooker or pool

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0917896A1 (fr) * 1997-11-04 1999-05-26 FRABOSK CASALINGHI S.p.A. Dispositf pour jouer des jeux de table sportifs ou similaires
US20210146232A1 (en) * 2019-11-18 2021-05-20 Robert Becker Method for playing a skill-based strategy game
US11717743B2 (en) * 2019-11-18 2023-08-08 Robert Becker Method for playing a skill-based strategy game

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