Target having resiliently divided compartments and projectiles

A game apparatus including an upwardly open tray-like game board transversely partitioned to define compartments by a plurality of strands. A plurality of disk-like dice are each capable of being loosely received by the respective game board compartment and are individually tossed at the game board for obtaining a score in accordance with the value assigned to the respective game board compartment.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
1. Field of the Invention 
The present invention relates to games and more particularly to a game of 
skill in tossing playing pieces toward an upwardly open compartmentalized 
game board. 
Games of skill in which playing pieces are tossed toward a goal, such as 
horseshoes or endless rings tossed by the players toward a stake, are well 
known. 
This invention provides a plurality of dice comprising disk-like members 
which are individually tossed toward an upwardly open compartmentalized 
game board with each of the compartments being assigned a score value for 
increasing the player's skill in attempting to toss the dice into a 
selected compartment. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
A generally horizontally disposed rectangular tray-like game board, having 
upwardly diverging walls, is transversely and longitudinally divided by a 
plurality of strands extending between and connected with opposing walls 
to form a plurality of compartments within the game board. Each of the 
compartments are assigned a selected scoring value. A plurality of playing 
pieces, which are generally disk-shaped, are individually tossed by the 
players in turn toward a selected compartment of the game board. 
The principal object of this invention is to provide a game apparatus for 
increasing the skill of players in tossing playing pieces toward a game 
board.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
Like characters of reference designate like parts in those figures of the 
drawings in which they occur. 
In the drawings: 
The reference numeral 10 indicates the game board, as a whole, which is 
rectangular tray-like in general configuration. The game board comprises a 
horizontal bottom 12 integrally joined to end walls 14 and 16 and opposing 
side walls 18 and 20. The end and side walls are arranged in outwardly and 
upwardly diverging relation so that the area encompassed by the marginal 
upper edge limit of the end and side walls is slightly greater than the 
overall dimensions of the bottom 12. The game board is longitudinally 
divided medially its width by a pair of vertically spaced strands 22 
extending through suitable apertures formed in the upper edge portion of 
the end walls 14 and 16. The game board is similarly transversely divided 
by two pairs of strands 24 and 26, respectively, extending through 
suitable apertures formed in the side walls 18 and 20 so that the spacing 
between the pair of strands 24 and the end wall 14 is substantially equal 
to one-third the length of the game board and similarly the spacing 
between the other pair of strands 26 and the end wall 16 is substantially 
equal to one-third the length of the game board. 
The upper surface of the bottom 12 is provided with a plurality of scored 
lines 30 extending longitudinally and transversely of the tray parallel 
with the respective pairs of strands 22, 24 and 26. The scored lines, in 
combination with the respective pairs of strands, thus define a plurality, 
six in the example shown, of substantially square upwardly open 
compartments within the game board. Each of the compartments are assigned 
a numerical value by printing or scoring the upper surface of the bottom 
12 with indicia designating the assigned value. 
The numeral 40 indicates one of a plurality of identical sized playing 
pieces which is flat plate-like and square in general configuration having 
rounded or arcuate corner portions 42. The overall dimensions of the 
playing pieces 40 is selected in accordance with the dimensions of the 
game board and its compartments and is preferably such that the playing 
piece 40 may be freely received within any one of the compartments and so 
that a plurality of the playing pieces may be accommodated by any one of 
the compartments. A selected number of the playing pieces 40, comprising a 
"set", is assigned each player. The playing pieces of each set are all 
colored alike to contrast with the color of other sets of playing pieces. 
Operation 
In operation one or more of the game boards 10 are disposed at a selected 
location and a playing position, not shown, is selected spaced a 
predetermined distance from the game board. Any selected playing piece 40 
of each set may be used by the several players who, by taking turns, toss 
individual ones of his set of the playing pieces toward a selected one of 
the upwardly open compartments. The purpose of the pairs of strands is to 
insure that the playing pieces enter or are completely disposed within one 
of the compartments to avoid a playing piece overlying the score lines on 
the game board bottom 12. Another purpose of the strands is to impart a 
resilient force against the playing piece so that, if inaccurately thrown, 
the resilience of the strands urges the playing piece toward the selected 
or a different compartment or over one of the game board boundry walls. 
Scores added up determines the winner of the game. 
Obviously the invention is susceptible to changes or alterations without 
defeating its practicability. Therefore, I do not wish to be confined to 
the preferred embodiment shown in the drawings and described herein.