A tiered beverage pong game system comprising a plurality of tiered platforms, each having at least one of a width and a length that is greater than any higher tiered platform and a plurality of beverage container placement markers located on the tiered platforms, each configured to seat a beverage container thereon, the beverage container placement markers comprising a plurality of colors indicating which direction a beverage container seated on beverage container placement marker is passed when a player bounces a ball into the corresponding beverage container. A top tiered platform comprises a single beverage container placement marker and each tiered platform comprises a greater number of beverage container placement markers than any higher tiered platform. Each side of each tiered platform comprises a different color along a vertical or horizontal side that corresponds with a color among the plurality of colors of the beverage container placement markers.

A net system comprising a first net module including a first housing, a first net and a first connector connected to the first net. The first net being retractably connected to the first housing. The net system additionally includes a second net module including a second housing, a second net and a second connecter connected to the second net, the second net being retractably connected to the second housing. The first connector is connectable to the second connector to detachably connect the first net module to the second net module.

A catching game that is challenging even when played by one player. The catching game is a paddle-sized hand-held device that preferably incorporates an automatic launcher and an adjustable aperture catcher on the same hand-held device. The automatic launcher incorporates randomness into the launching mechanism, in order to increase the challenge to the player(s). The game also incorporates an electronic sensor to determine when a catch has been made.

An apparatus for use in an American football type game includes an elongate structure defining a generally tubular body having a length extending between two opposing ends, a width, and a handgrip portion located between the ends. The width of the tubular body is generally uniform along the entire length of the body. An attachment mechanism removably receives the elongate structure at an attachment point and limits movement of substantially the entire elongate structure to that of the attachment mechanism at the attachment point. The attachment mechanism is configured to release the elongate structure therefrom when a force that overcomes an attachment force provided by the attachment mechanism is applied to the handgrip portion.

A beer pong tabletop game is an apparatus that connects ping pong balls to a tabletop during a game while maintaining the freedom of movement for the ping pong balls, and consequently the players. The apparatus includes at least one anchoring disk, a first elastic string, a second elastic string, a first ping pong ball, second ping pong ball, and a pull tab. The at least one anchoring disk is secured with the tabletop. The first elastic string and the second elastic string attaches the first ping pong ball and the second ping pong ball with the at least one anchoring disk, respectively. The first ping pong ball and the second ping pong ball are shot into cups positioned across the tabletop. The pull tab facilitates an even length adjustment of the first elastic string and the second elastic string with the at least one anchoring disk.

The present disclosure is a game that has a mixer positioned at a first location on a gaming area and a plurality of balls randomly dispersed throughout the gaming area. In response to a command, a player on a team collects one or more of the plurality of balls, the score is incremented based upon the balls collected, the player throws the collected ball(s) into the mixer, and the mixer disperses the ball(s) back into the gaming area.

A convertible tiered game system comprising a plurality of tiered platforms, each tiered platform having at least one of a width and a length that is greater than any higher tiered platform, a plurality of tiered overlays configured to be seated upon each tiered platform among the plurality of tiered platforms, at least three of the tiered overlays comprising a center opening and having at least one of a width and a length that is greater than any higher tiered overlay, and a plurality of beverage container placement markers located on at least one of a tiered platform and a tiered overlay. The system may further comprise a lowest tiered overlay configured to rest on a same surface as the lowest tiered platform. The tiered overlays may comprise a lip extending downward along a vertical side wall of a tiered platform on which the tiered overlay is seated.

Embodiments provide apparatuses, systems, and methods associated with a location-aware autonomous self-propelled sports ball. The sports ball may detect its location relative to one or more locator tags and control its self-propelled movement based on the detected location. The locator tags may be worn by respective users of the sports ball and/or placed on the ground. The sports ball may operate in different modes that control movement of the sports ball relative to the one or more locator tags, such as tag, chase, auto-return, side-to-side, and race. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

An arrangement, a computer system, and/or a method for playing a game include a playing area, a first set of scoring structures arranged at a perimeter of the playing area and that are active throughout the game, and a second set of scoring structures arranged at the perimeter of the playing area and that are active only during penalty periods of the game, where each pair of adjacent ones of structures of the first set is separated by one of the structures of the second set.