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Systems and methods are provided for facilitating play of a game
with user-selected elements. According to one or more embodiments
of the present invention, a set of all possible elements of a game
is determined. Each of the elements of the set is associated with
at least one of a plurality of locations. A representation of the
plurality of locations is displayed to a player, defining a set
of selectable locations. At least one selection signal is received,
with each selection signal indicating a selectable location from
the set of selectable locations, indicating at least one selected
element. An outcome is determined based on the at least one selected
element.
Articles of play for use with the game of catch include a ball
covered with a hook and loop fastening material and a multi-layer
catcher's mitt with a front layer also covered in a mating material.
The multi-layer mitt includes a rigid rear layer, a flexible layer,
and front layer of a hook and loop fastening material.
A triple-play game (10) that allows three games to be played indoors:
basketball, tetherball and target-board. All three games utilize
a pole (12) positioned vertically between the ceiling and floor
of a room. Basketball is played with a ball (20) attached to a line
(14) having its other end attached to a wrist strap (24). The basketball
backboard (30) is clipped to the pole (12) and has a ball-hoop (34)
having a frontal narrow opening (38). When the ball is tossed through
the ball-hoop, the attached line follows and falls through the opening
(38). Whether a player makes a basket or misses, all that is necessary
to retrieve the ball (20) is to pull the line (14). Thus, the player
can remain at the original shooting position. The tetherball game
features a safety pole-clip (50) designed to slip down the pole
(12) if a force of over five pounds is applied. Therefore, if the
line becomes entangled around a child's neck, the line will come
down avoiding harm. The target-board game also has a clip-on target-board
(60) having a VELCRO.RTM. target-face (62). A safe projectile (70)
having a VELCRO front section (74) is used to toss at the target-face
(62).
Articles of play for use with the game of catch including a ball
covered with VELCRO and a multi-layer catcher's mitt with a front
layer also covered in mating VELCRO like material. The multi-layer
mitt includes a rigid concave rear layer, a first intermediate flexible
layer, a second intermediate flexible layer, and said front layer
of VELCRO.
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