Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1997-06-02
1998-07-21
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273272, 434191, 434209, A63F 300
Patent
active
057824711
ABSTRACT:
The present invention comprises a board game for teaching basic arithmetic and mathematical operations to small children and others in need of such skills. The game board includes a continuous rectangular peripheral playing path having a series of playing positions therealong, with each of the positions requiring a player to accept or pay out an amount of simulated currency. The goal is for a player to reach a predetermined monetary total, whereupon the player may purchase an imaginary "dream trip" with the accrued money. For very young persons beginning to learn basic addition and subtraction, this first level of the game may be sufficient. However, the present game also provides higher levels, in which players are required to perform some higher mathematical operation using a random number generation device (dice, etc.) to provide the numbers to be manipulated mathematically, before being able to advance along the playing path. Play proceeds as described above for each level, with the first player who accrues the predetermined amount of currency and purchasing a "dream trip" winning that level or round of the game.
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Bautista Angel B.
Bautista Jacqueline
Layno Benjamin H.
Litman Richard C.
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