US 7,523,940 B1
Baseball dice game system
Ken Jacobson, 630 Indianapolis Ave., Apartment A, Huntington Beach, Calif. 92648 (US)
Filed on Jun. 05, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/758,523.
Int. Cl. A63F 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 273—244.1  [273/259; 273/277] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of playing a baseball dice game comprising:
providing a baseball dice game system comprising
a case including a bottom wall and a perimeter wall extending upwardly from said bottom wall to define a playing space of said case, said case having a plurality of base apertures extending into said bottom wall through a playing surface of said bottom wall, said base apertures being positioned to represent bases of a baseball diamond, said case including a plurality of pitch result apertures, said pitch result apertures being arranged in a grid comprising three strike columns and four ball rows, said pitch result apertures being positioned adjacent an area representative of home plate of a baseball diamond;
a pair of play dice, said play dice being rolled to determine a result of a pitch, said play dice being stored in said playing space when said play dice are not being used;
a plurality of player pegs, said player pegs being inserted into said base apertures and said pitch result apertures when said play dice are rolled, said player pegs being positioned in said playing space when said player pegs are not being used, a first portion of said player pegs having a first color to indicate a first team, a second portion of said player pegs having a second color to indicate a second team;
a pair of wing boards, each of said wing boards being hingedly coupled to said perimeter wall opposite said bottom wall, each of said wing boards being pivoted over said playing space to close said playing space when said case is not being used, each of said wing boards having a plurality of player apertures extending through an interior face of the associated one of said wing boards, each of said player apertures of one of said wing boards receiving one of said player pegs of one of the teams, each of said wing boards having a channel extending into the associated one of said wing boards through said interior face;
a pair of stealing dice, one of said stealing dice having the first color to indicate the first team and the other of said steal dice having the second color to indicate the second team, one of said stealing dice being rolled with said play dice to indicate the success of a stolen base, said channel of each of said wing plates receiving one of said stealing dice when said stealing dice are not being used;
a score board being hingedly coupled to said perimeter wall opposite said bottom wall of said case, said score board being pivoted into said playing space before said wing plates are provided over said playing space to store said score board when said score board is not being used, said score board having a plurality of out apertures extending into said score board through a score face of said score board, said score board having a plurality of score apertures extending through said score face, said score apertures having a first section to indicate a score of the first team, said score apertures having a second section indicating the score of the second team, said score board having a plurality of inning apertures extending through said score face to indicate an inning of the game;
an out peg being insertable into one of said out apertures to indicate the number of outs for the associated inning of the game;
a pair of scoring pegs, said first section of said score apertures receiving one of said scoring pegs to indicate the score of the first team, said second section of said score apertures receiving one of said scoring pegs to indicate a score of the second team;
an inning peg being insertable into one of said inning apertures to indicate an inning of the game;
rolling of one of said play dice by each of the players to determine which is a first player and a second player;
starting of an inning;
placing of one of said player pegs into a starting one of said pitch result apertures by the first player;
rolling of said play dice by the first player;
moving of the one of said player pegs in said pitch result apertures into an adjacent one of said ball rows away from the starting one of said pitch result apertures when a value of seven, eleven or twelve is rolled on said play dice;
moving of the one of said player pegs to a first one of said base apertures when the one of said player pegs can no longer be moved one of said ball rows away from the starting one of said pitch result apertures;
moving of the one of said player pegs into an adjacent one of said strike columns away from the starting one of said pitch result apertures when the value on said play dice rolled is equal to three, four, five, six, eight, nine or ten and faces of said play dice are not identical;
advancing said out peg one of said out apertures when the one of said player pegs can no longer being moved one of said strike columns away from the starting one of said pitch result apertures;
advancing said player pegs in said playing space one of said base apertures when the player rolls a pair of ones on said play dice;
advancing said player pegs in said playing space two of said base apertures when the player rolls a pair of twos on said play dice;
advancing said player pegs in said playing space three of said base apertures when the player rolls a pair of threes on said play dice;
advancing of all of said player pegs in said playing space through said base apertures and back to pitch results apertures when the player rolls a pair of fours on said play dice;
advancing of the associated one of said score pegs one of said score apertures for each of said player pegs that is advanced through said base apertures and returned to said pitch result apertures;
advancing said out peg one of said out apertures when the player rolls a pair of fives on said play dice;
continuing of play by the first player until the first player receives three outs;
declaring of stealing a base by the one of players with player pegs in said playing space and declaring odd or even;
rolling of the associated one of said stealing dice with said play dice;
advancing of one of said base apertures by each of said player pegs in said base apertures when the number shown on said stealing dice matches the declaration of the player and the roll of said play dice does not advance said player pegs along said base apertures;
removing of a leading one of said player pegs from the base apertures and advancing said out peg one of said out apertures when the number shown on said stealing dice does not equal the declaration by the player;
continuing of play by the first player until the first player receives three outs;
playing by the second player until the second player receives three outs;
ending of an inning;
continuing playing of innings until the desired number of innings have been played; and
winning of the game by the player with the most runs shown on the score board.