Title: Manipulative skill game apparatus having tiltable platforms and automatic feeder mechanism

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Abstract: A manipulative skill game apparatus in the form of a generally upright game board on which are tiltably mounted (in a series extending from the top toward the bottom of the board) a plurality of tiltable, generally horizontally extending platforms. Structure is also provided for controlling the tilting of the platforms. The game includes a plurality of balls, and the platforms are in staggered positions from side to side so that a ball rolling off one end of a platform will land on an end of a platform below it. The object of the game is to tilt the platforms so as to guide a ball from a higher platform successively to lower platforms. A feeder mechanism automatically delivers the balls one at a time in timed sequence to the uppermost platform. After a predetermined timed interval the next ball is delivered to that same uppermost platform. Thus, the player must not only successfully manipulate the tilting of the platforms to guide the ball from higher to successively lower platforms, but he must also race against the clock, remove each ball as quickly as he can from platform to platform, before the next ball is delivered to the top platform. The further along the path (i.e., the lower down the platform) from where the ball is finally lost, the higher score the player gets. The feeder mechanism may be selectively pre-set to operate at one of several different rates to thereby change the difficulty of the game.


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