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  Golf game assembly and a method of playing a golf game on a boardUSPTO Application #: 20060027963Title: Golf game assembly and a method of playing a golf game on a board Abstract: A golf game assembly includes a game board representing a single hole of a golf course showing a tee, a fairway, a green, and hazards. A set of drive or stroke cards are provided for positioning on the board, each card representing possible drives or strokes performed with a specific golf club, and each having a first indication of a starting point and a plurality of second indications representing a specific drive or stroke of a specific length and direction from the starting point. A mechanism randomly generates an indication from among the plurality of second indications, and displays the randomly generated indication representing a player's drive or stroke from the starting point, and one or more transfer indicators for transferring to the board a drive or stroke indicated on a specific drive or stroke card positioned on the board and determined by the randomly generated indication. (end of abstract)
Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh - Irvine, CA, US Inventors: Jesper B. Christensen, Mette Lisby USPTO Applicaton #: 20060027963 - Class: 273245000 (USPTO) Related Patent Categories: Amusement Devices: Games, Board Games, Pieces, Or Boards Therefor, Piece Moves Over Board Having Pattern, Chance Device Controls Amount Or Direction Of Movement Of Piece, Sports Or Outdoor Recreational Activities, Golf The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060027963. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] The present invention relates to a novel game of the kind usually played on a table by two or more individuals. In particular, the present invention relates to a novel golf game defined as a golf game assembly which game is to be played by two or more individuals constituting the two or more golf players. Alternatively, the novel golf game assembly according to the present invention may be used as a training or teaching instruction for learning an individual starting playing golf to organise his or her play, as the novel golf game assembly according to the present invention is based on real life experiences as a golf player and reflects the game of game itself. [0002] Within the technique, several attempts have been made to produce a golf game resembling the play on a golf course and examples of golf games of this kind are described in GB 322 221, GB 2 245 18,U.S. Pat. No. 2,618,482, U.S. Pat. No. 4,134,590 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,000,460, which includes a game board resembling the golf course and various elements to be used for identifying a drive or stroke performed in the game. [0003] A basic realisation relating to the presentation of a golf game as a table play is the similarity between the golf game and the play performed on the table, as the golfer is performing his drive or stroke from the tee or from a location on the fairway and in doing so decides whichever golf club or iron to be used and further decides how heavy the stroke or drive is to be performed. [0004] The skilled golfer still has to accept that in spite of the golfer's skill, other influences such as the wind may cause the golf ball to land on a location different from the intended location. The uncontrollable impact from in particular wind or other external sources provides a particular charm to the play of golf and also like a table play involves a kind of luck or chance similar to the luck or chance when flipping a coin or playing with a pair of dices. [0005] Another similarity between the golf game and the table play is the periodical or intermittent course as the golf game is performed intermittently and similarly at the table game, the player rolls a pair of dices or draws a card or performs a similar activity constituting the one act which influences the further development in the play. As distinct from many ball games which are performed continuously, the golf game is periodical and includes several pauses allowing a table game to resemble the play on a golf course. [0006] It is contemplated that the present invention may alternatively be implemented in other sport games, in particular ball games having a periodical or intermittent course. [0007] In the literature, a number of board type golf games are described in the literature, e.g. in the following patent applications and patents: GB 2 245 187, GB 322 221, U.S. Pat. No. 1,513,941, U.S. Pat. No. 1,529,598, U.S. Pat. No. 1,535,126, U.S. Pat. No. 1,605,739, U.S. Pat. No. 1,758,581, U.S. Pat. No. 2,618,482, U.S. Pat. No. 3,612,534, U.S. Pat. No. 3,658,339, U.S. Pat. No. 3,910,581, U.S. Pat. No. 3,912,270, U.S. Pat. No. 3,994,229, U.S. Pat. No. 4,108,442, U.S. Pat. No. 4,134,590, U.S. Pat. No. 4,380,338, U.S. Pat. No. 4,809,985 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,000,460, to which US patents reference is made and which US patents are hereby incorporated in the present specification by reference. [0008] Compared to the prior art board type golf game, a need for an improvement exists for making the golf game more truthful to the real golf game for allowing the player to make decisions similar to the decisions made by the golfer as to whichever golf club or iron is to be used involving an evaluation of the accuracy obtained by the use of the golf club or iron in question as compared to the possible range obtained by the use of the golf club or iron in question. [0009] Furthermore, a need exists for providing a golf game of the above kind providing a possibility of choosing, as a player, a specific orientation of the stroke to be performed in combination with the choice of the golf club or iron used for a drive or a stroke from a specific location being the tee or a location on the fairway. [0010] The above needs are fulfilled according to a first aspect of the present invention with a golf game assembly, which golf game assembly further provides specific advantages and features as compared to the prior art golf game which advantages and features will be evident from the below detailed description. In particular, the golf game assembly according to the first aspect of the present invention comprises: [0011] a) a plane game board representing a single hole of a golf course showing a tee, a fairway, a green and one or more hazards, such as one or more bunkers and/or one or more water hazards, [0012] b) a set of drive or stroke cards, preferably transparent or semi-transparent drive or stroke cards, to be positioned individually on said plane game board, each card representing possible drives or strokes performed with a specific golf club or iron and having a first indication of a starting point and a plurality of second indications, each indication among said plurality of second indications representing a specific drive or stroke of a specific length and direction from said starting point, said second indications being located around a centre at a distance from said starting point, each indication among said plurality of second indications corresponding to a specific likelihood of occurrence, and the indication or indications among said second plurality of indications corresponding to the highest likelihood of occurrence being located closest to said centre, whereas the indication or indications among said second plurality of indications corresponding to the lowest likelihood of occurrence being located farthest from said centre [0013] c) a generator means for randomly generating an indication among said plurality of second indications according to a non-even probability distribution or non-even distribution of likelihood of occurrence and for displaying said randomly generated indication representing a player's drive or stroke from said starting point, and [0014] d) one or more transfer indicators for transferring to said game board a drive or stroke indicated on a specific drive or stroke card positioned on said plane game board and determined by said randomly generated indication determined by said generator means. [0015] The golf game assembly according to the present invention includes basically four elements allowing the golf game assembly to be used in a play similar to the actual golf play on a golf course. The elements constitutes a plane game board illustrating the golf course, a set of transparent drive or stroke cards, a generator means such as a set of cards, a set of coins, a set of dices or an electronic device providing a random generation of indications to be used in determining the stroke performed by one of the players. Finally, the golf game assembly includes one or more transfer indications. [0016] A particular feature of the golf game assembly according to the present invention is the set of transparent drive or stroke cards which allows the players to make a decision similar to the golfer's decision of whichever golf club or iron to use. Provided the player is to start from the tee or alternatively has reached a location on the fairway, the player playing the game of the golf game assembly according to the present invention evaluates whichever of the drive or stroke cards has a range from the first indication of a starting point to the second indications which are located in an area at a distance from the starting point for reaching a new location from the starting point at the fairway or preferably on the green. A further feature of the drive or stroke cards as will be discussed in greater details below relates to the inverse correspondence between the range obtained by a long drive and the spreading of the possible results obtained which results are indicated by the plurality of second indications. In other words, provided a short range transparent stroke card is chosen, all possible strokes are located fairly close to one another at a short distance from the starting point, whereas with a long range drive card, the plurality of second indications are widely spread over the card resembling the risk well known to a golfer of forcing the drive heavily and in doing so running the risk of making a poor drive causing the golf ball to end up in a hazard or the rough rather than on the fairway. [0017] A further feature relating to the drive or stroke cards relate to the statistical distribution of the second indications as the more likely indications to be generated by the generator means are located centrally, whereas the one long drive corresponding to the selection of a specific drive or stroke card is only obtained by the highest integer or the most favourable indications obtained by the random generation of the indications by the generator means and similarly the poorest outcome of the random generation of an indication by the generator means corresponds to the shortest stroke from the starting point of the drive or stroke card in question. [0018] The provision of the drive or stroke cards as transparent drive or stroke cards also allows the player to orientate the card before making a stroke, i.e. before playing in whichever direction the stroke is to be performed by orientating the card from the starting point towards an area of the intentional location for the stroke to reach by simply turning the stroke card clockwise or anticlockwise relative to the starting point and in doing so providing an overall aiming of the stroke to be performed towards a location on the fairway or on the green. [0019] As stated above, the generator means may as stated above be constituted by any generator elements or composition of elements etc. allowing the generation of a random distribution of uneven characteristic, i.e. a generation of the indications having the similarity to e.g. the Gaussian normal distribution or any other characteristic having a concentration of a number of possible results of the random generation at the centre and a fairly low likelihood of low or high integers or similar indications resembling the low likelihood of a short stroke and similarly an extremely long stroke. [0020] According to the presently preferred embodiment of the golf game assembly according to the present invention, more than one plane game board is provided allowing the players to play more than one hole of a golf course as each plane game board resembles a specific hole of a golf course. Consequently, provided more than one plane game board is provided, e.g. 9, 18, 27 or 36 or any other number of game boards may be used for resembling a complete golf course such as a conventional 18 or 36 hole golf course. [0021] The plane game board includes or shows as already stated above, a tee, a fairway, a green and one or more hazards and preferably also, for resembling the real golf course, a semi-rough and a rough. Provided a semi-rough and a rough are specific, rules resembling the real golf play of how to strike the golf ball in the rough or alternatively in the hazard may be used, such as using a specific generator means, e.g. a specially designed dice having a different distribution of the indications. Furthermore, according to the rules of the golf game assembly, certain limitations as to whichever transparent drive or stroke cards may be used when located in the rough, semi-rough or hazard may limit the possibilities of choosing cards, thereby resembling the real golf play. [0022] In the real golf play, the play on the fairway eventually brings the golf ball to the green and from thereon the play differs substantially from the play on the fairway, as the golf player uses a putter for putting the golf ball into the hole. In the golf game assembly according to the present invention, this play on the green is governed in a way differing from the play on the fairway as the green has a specific signature identifying the play according to a specific set of rules according to which specific second indications represent a one hole put, different second indications represent putting in two strokes and optionally further second indications generated by the generator means represent putting in three or more strokes. [0023] According to the presently preferred embodiment of the golf game assembly according to the present invention, the green has at least two separate sections, the one section including the hole of the green and having a first green indication corresponding to a high likelihood of putting as the majority of the second indications generated randomly by the generator means represent a one hole put and the other section having a second green indication corresponding to a lower likelihood of putting in one stroke as the minority of indications represent a one hole put. [0024] The play on the green is, as will be understood, different from the play on the fairway in which fairway play the transparent drive or stroke cards are used. According to the above-described particular embodiment of the golf game assembly according to the present invention in which two or more sections of the green are provided, the location on the green determines, corresponding to the distance from the hole, whichever likelihood the put is performed in one stroke or alternatively in two or more strokes. [0025] The generator means for randomly generating the indication identifying the new location for the player or in other words the range of the drive or stroke may, as already stated above, be constituted by any random generating a combination of elements or set of elements, apparatuses etc. A specially designed set of cards from which an indication defining card is drawn may be used, alternatively, a specially designed dice having the preferred uneven distribution characteristic of the indications as stated above or alternatively an electronic dice apparatus may be used performing the act similar to the act of throwing a pair of dices. Preferably and advantageously, two conventional dices having the integers 1-6 on respective sides of the individual dice are used as a sum of integers produced by throwing the two dices provide an uneven distribution of the integers between 2 and 12 having a maximum of likelihood of obtaining the integer 7, which integer constitutes the average of the sum obtained by the two dices. [0026] The location of the indications on the individual transparent drive or stroke cards are as already discussed above, provided resembling the statistical distribution of the possibility of obtaining a specific indication resembling e.g. an integer or sum obtainable by the use of two dices. As the most favourable outcome resembles the longest range obtained by a specific golf club or iron similar to a specific drive or stroke card, the shortest range corresponds to the most unfavourable result obtained by throwing the two dices. The most likely result similarly constitute the average stroke and the sum of integers around the average integer 7 are located around the average throw at the centre of the distribution of the indications on the card in question. [0027] For transferring the indication from the transparent drive or stroke card to the plane game board, any relevant transfer system, such as a carbon copy system, a pressure sensitive transfer system etc. may be used. According to the presently preferred embodiment of the golf game assembly according to the present invention and also the most simple and most reliable embodiment of the golf game assembly according to the present invention, each of the transparent drive or stroke cards have a plurality of apertures corresponding to the second indications for allowing the transfer of the indication to the plane game board to be performed by simply making a dot on the game board by means of a pencil, a pen etc. [0028] In the golf game assembly according to the present invention, the size of the plane game board and also the longest range obtained by use of the drive card are determined resembling the ideal 300 yard stroke on a hole of a golf course having a distance from the tee to the green of the order of 80-600 yards. For allowing the golf game assembly to be used on a conventional table, the plane game board is preferably of a size allowing the plane game board to be positioned on the table, such as a size having the dimensions of DIN A3, DIN A2 or alternatively any other format. The plane game board is preferably made from paper or cardboard material having a printing repellent top surface for allowing the indications transferred to the game board to be wiped out after the completion of the play and allowing the plane game board to be reused for another play. Continue reading... Full patent description for Golf game assembly and a method of playing a golf game on a board Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Golf game assembly and a method of playing a golf game on a board patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. 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