Patent ID: 6241251
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A method of playing a game of skill on the sand by two or more players, said method comprising the steps of:providing a set of playing pieces to each of the players, wherein each of the playing pieces of the set include an elongate body, a head portion and a lower end zone, and the set of playing pieces further including a plurality of first playing pieces of equal length and a second playing piece having a length which is shorter than the plurality of first playing pieces;providing each of the players with boundary marking means for enclosing an area on the sand to thereby define a territory for each of the players;spacing the players' territories at a predetermined distance apart;placing the first and second playing pieces of said set, for each player, within the respective player's territory by driving the lower end zone of each of said first and second playing pieces into the sand so as to maintain the playing pieces in an upright position;taking turns, by each player, tossing a ring towards another player's territory;attempting to capture another player's playing pieces by landing the ring over one or more of the other player's playing pieces so that the ring surrounds the one or more playing pieces of the other player, wherein the captured one or more playing pieces is removed from the other player's territory and placed in the territory of the player which captured the respective one or more playing pieces;attempting to destroy another player's playing pieces by striking the other player's playing pieces and knocking one or more of the other player's playing pieces from the upright position to a tilted position beyond forty-five degrees from vertical wherein the destroyed playing pieces are removed from the other player's territory; andcontinuing to take turns tossing the ring, by each player, until only one player has said second playing piece of said set remaining within that player's territory.