Patent ID: 6308956
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A ball toss game for throwing tethered balls at a target comprising:a. a pair of upright side support members retained in perpendicularity to an underlying support surface by respective bottom support members;b. a plurality of bar tossing members positioned between said upright support members which are removeably engaged at pre-determined points in a vertical direction along said side support members, said bar tossing members being releasably engaged by one or more retractable latching members in like dimensioned latching member receiving apertures located at said pre-determined points along the side support members; andc. a pair of spheroids arranged at each of the ends of a plurality of elongated flexible cords and secured to said ends of the respective cords by passing the cords through a centrally located aperture in each spheroid and knotting the cords on either side of each spheroid tethering the pair of spheroids to each other with a pre-determined length of cord therebetween,whereby the plurality of tethered spheroids are tossed from one or more prescribed distances at the bar tossing members in order to temporarily secure the tethered spheroids over said bar tossing members scoring points for those tethered spheroids remaining temporarily secured over said bar tossing members at the end of a series of tosses by a number of players.