Simulating sports board game using bottle caps

Abstract

A game using bottle caps or similar shape pieces, to represent: soccer, baseball, football or basketball players. The bottle caps are used on a rug or similar material that simulates the surface of the field. The bottle caps “kick, pass, shoot, throw” (hitting) a proportional realistic ball or “run” (slide) by means of finger flicking or catapulting the cap with the fingers, depending if the ball is on the rug surface or on the cap respectively.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]This invention relates generally to games played on a rug or similar material over the top of a table or on the floor, that simulates a soccer, baseball, football or basketball field which is portable or not.[0003]2. Description of Related Art[0004]Soccer, baseball, football and basketball are the most selected sports by millions of people, that is why there are many inventions to simulate these games and make them allowable under any circumstance.[0005]One of those intents is U.S. Pat. No. 5,431,397. The table top soccer game which includes a planar simulated soccer assembly adapted to be placed on a table top.It includes four passing zones with goal areas. A plurality of first players is comprised of a first team and a plurality of second players is comprised of a second team adapted to slide along the simulated soccer field assembly. The are players adapted to be propelled by squeezing action between an index finger ...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a highly realistic simulation of sports like soccer, baseball, football or basketball using cheap and easy to find bottle caps or similar shape and allow its practice to any circumstance witch could make difficult on the real sport. (Physical disabilities whether or just for fancy style).

[0011]Yet another object of this invention is to provide a recovery value of simplicity and ingenuity by the use of bottle caps or similar shape to develop a very distractive and interactive game for people of all ages young or old as an alternative option apart of automated technologies.

Problems solved by technology

First, it does not allow to keep the real rules of the specific sport as close as possible and second, it replaces the finger flicking force to slide the players by a squeezing action between an index finger and a thumb disregarding the finger action which simulates a proportional foot kick force and makes it more real, assuming the common relation of the body extremities.

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