Floating toss game

Abstract

A pair of Styrofoam floating asymmetric targets are advantageously selectively tethered to either a side of the swimming pool or to the bottom of the swimming pool to maintain their spacing and alignment, facilitating a tossing game such as “cornhole” or “toss across” that are generally known for use on land.

1 . A device for placement in a body of water for playing a tossing game, comprising: 
 a target deck;    a support portion comprised of a plurality of sides attached beneath the target deck to raise the target deck above water and including a buoyant portion; and    a tether attached to the support portion.    
   
   
       2 . The device of  claim 1 , wherein the tether further comprises: 
 a pair of tether lines attached to laterally spaced portions of the support portion; and    a pair of weights attached to respective tether lines to temporarily position the device at a desired position in the body of water.    
   
   
       3 . The device of  claim 1 , wherein the support portion comprises a buoyant plastic foam.  
   
   
       4 . The device of  claim 1 , wherein the support portion comprises an angled support portion.  
   
   
       5 . The device of  claim 4 , wherein the target deck comprises a rectangular portion formed of a buoyant plastic foam.  
   
   
       6 . The device of  claim 5 , wherein the target deck further comprises a dense foam plastic wear surface.  
   
   
       7 . The device of  claim 1 , further comprising a length adjustment member attached to each tether line.  
   
   
       8 . The device of  claim 7 , wherein the length adjustment member comprises a spool spring biased to retract slack in the respective tether.  
   
   
       9 . A game apparatus for playing a tossing game, comprising: 
 a first and second set of tossing objects; and    a first and second target, each target comprising: 
 a target deck,  
 a support portion comprised of a plurality of sides attached beneath the target deck to raise the target deck above water and including a buoyant portion, and  
 a tether attached to the support portion.  
   
   
   
       10 . The game apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein the tether of each target further comprises: 
 a pair of tether lines attached to laterally spaced portions of the support portion; and    a pair of weights attached to respective tether lines to temporarily position the device at a desired position in the body of water.    
   
   
       11 . The game apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein the support portion of each target comprises a buoyant plastic foam.  
   
   
       12 . The game apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein the support portion comprises an angled support portion.  
   
   
       13 . The game apparatus of  claim 12 , wherein the target deck of each target comprises a rectangular portion formed of a buoyant plastic foam.  
   
   
       14 . The game apparatus of  claim 13 , wherein the target deck of each target further comprises a dense foam plastic wear surface.  
   
   
       15 . The game apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein each target further comprises a length adjustment member attached to each tether line.  
   
   
       16 . The game apparatus of  claim 15 , wherein the length adjustment member comprises a spool spring biased to retract slack in the respective tether.  
   
   
       17 . The game apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein each set of the first and second sets of tossing objects comprises a plurality of water resistant fabric bags encompassing a plurality of buoyant, water resistant pellets.  
   
   
       18 . A method of playing a game, comprising: 
 tethering a pair of buoyant targets in a body of water, each target comprising an angled deck having an aperture formed therein, each target spaced apart from the other and ramped away from the other;    having two teams of two participants, one from each team positioned proximate to a respective target;    providing a first set of a plurality of buoyant tossing objects of one ornamentation to one participant at a selected target and a providing a second set of a plurality of buoyant tossing objects of another ornamentation to the other participant at the selected target;    alternating throwing one from each set toward the other target until each set is exhausted;    scoring by counting tossing objects remaining on the other target and counting tossing objects that passed through the aperture in other target; and    performing the same procedure if a winning score is not reached by having the other participants throw their respective sets in alternating fashion back toward the selected target.