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The invention relates to a method of and equipment for playing a game of skill and chance for amusement and exercise purposes. More specifically, it comprehends a game which may be played by one or two or three or four or more players for his or their own entertainment and/or the entertainment of others, and which, in one of its embodiments, requires on the part of each participating player a considerable degree of skill, timing, and coordinated muscular control, all in order successfully to make such body movements as to entwine his body in a pretzel-like manner around the body of an opponent so as better to force the said opponent, because of his thereby being overpowered strengthwise or being forced into an awkward position, to break his posture or to lose his balance and to fall to the ground or surface of the playing arena or otherwise to make such bodily contact therewith as shall, according to the rules of play, dictate his being declared the loser. In broadest terms, the primary object of the invention is to provide an apparatus for playing a game wherein the objective of each player is to force his opponent or opponents first to fall to the ground. In a series of successive steps, each of the players, responsive to a command, moves, simultaneously with his opponent, a command-designated limb of his respective anatomy to a player-selected one of a plurality of command-designated delineated areas within a playing arena, all to the end on the part of each player to so entwine or interengage himself with the opposing player as to allow such opposing player no alternative but to be forced to assume a gamelosing position. Each player aims to outmaneuver his opponent or opponents in the course of a sequence of in seriatim steps or physical movements, wherein in each of such steps or movements, the opposing players, responsive to a given commond, simultaneously comply with the letter of the command by performing the dictated act of the command as a step or movement involving a named portion of their respective anatomies, the players having, in the course thereof, a certain freedom of selectivity as to the situs of the performed act, there being a plurality of areas provided from which plurality each player may choose one, with the limitation being imposed upon the players that no two players may select the identical area for such responsive performance. In a definite sense, the game comprehends a competition in which the players compete with each other for 3,454,279 Patented July 8, 1969 spaces or loci without falling down or assuming such positions of stance as will qualify them as the game losers. I