Pneumatic projector game with central target

Abstract

A competitive game device employing propulsion means suitable for propelling table tennis balls toward a target suitable for receiving such balls. The target is located in a field having sloping contours for guiding balls which have missed the target to return to a launching position from which such balls may again be propelled toward the target. This invention provides pneumatic podially operated ball propulsion means having actuators spaced from the field in which the target is located and which are movable with respect to each other and the field. Competing players or teams may be allocated sets of colored or otherwise coded balls to be launched and relaunched toward the target. The stations from which a competitor propels the allocated balls at the start of the game may be randomly selected. The relaunching of balls which have missed the target and have returned into one of the launching positions will require the competitor to move to or reach for the actuating means associated with the particular propulsion means to which his ball has been guided after missing the target following the initial launching. Victory is awarded to the competitor who first succeeds in placing into the receiving target a predetermined number of balls allocated to him. It has been found that the game is particularly entertaining when the pneumatic actuators are spaced from and encircle the field and are approximately equidistant from each other so as to require substantial physical locomotion.