Bean Bag Buccaneers is a two player children's game, the object of which is to pick

up your treasure chest on the central island and sail back safely.

Each player has a giant sailing ship as their main game piece. Each ship has a
removable sail, two trigger-action side panels, and a huge spring-driven cannon.
Players take turns moving forward along a prescribed track and shooting bean bags
at their opponent's ship. A hit on one of the side panels will force it to pop off
and give the player a free shot at the other side; a hit forcing the sail off
becalms the ship for a turn.

To add to the pirate flavor, each player also has an eye patch. Wearing these will
slightly affect depth perception and add a marginal bit of sport to the shooting.

This game retailed for the somewhat impressive sum of $16 back in 1962. With its
huge plastic ships (close to a foot long), giant vinyl play mat, and the eye
patches, it may well stand as one of the more overproduced games of the early
1960s.

Bean Bag Buccaneers!

I'm trying to understand what the significance of this expectation was in regards
to prophesies/Messianic criteria.

If you're a Jew born sometime around 1 CE, then between you and King David (just
taking the Bible's chronology at face value) there is about 1,000 years. People
tend to have kids at about 25-30 years old. Let's call it 30 years. Every
generation, your number of ancestors doubles. You have two parents, four
grandparents, eight great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents, etc, and so
on. So we have about 1,000 years, taking an average age of becoming a parent around
30, then we have (1000/30) about 33 generations between a hypothetical Jewish man
born around 1 CE and King David. So the Jewish man born around 1 CE would have
around 2^33 = 8,589,934,592 ancestors on the Earth around King David's time. There
aren't even that many human beings on the entire Earth nowadays, much less in 1000
BCE and only restricting ourselves to Israel. It's all but guaranteed that out of
the 8.6 billion ancestors a Jewish man around 1 CE would have had in Israel/Judah
circa 1000 BCE, that at least one of them was David. (this concept is called
pedigree collapse. It is why every single European person can trace ancestry to
Charlemagne. At a certain point, your number of needed ancestors in a given era of
time and given geographical range is thousands to millions of times the number of
people around at that time. Indicating that with almost certainty every single
human in that era and time was one of your ancestors)

The exact same calculation even works in reverse. If King David has at least 2
sons, and they on average have at least 2 sons each, and those sons on average have
at least 2 sons each, (and so on), then King David has around 8.6 billion direct
male descendants circa 1 CE. But there weren't even anywhere close to 8.6 billion
human beings on Earth at that time. So it would be all but guaranteed that every
single Jewish male would be fill one of those necessary "slots" (i.e. You have 8.6
billion "slots" for "direct male descendant of King David" and only about a million
Jewish males around that time. Each male can certainly fill more than one spot, but
the average number of spots filled per male would be 8.6 billion divided by 1
million = 8.6/0.001 = 8,600)

Would it not have been obvious or self-evident that by that time, virtually every
single Jewish person was a descendant of David in some form? Was the significance
more about being able to specifically trace that Davidic ancestry? I.e. having some
kind of record of it?