Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1988-11-08
1990-01-02
Coven, Edward M.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273254, 273256, A63F 300
Patent
active
048908428
ABSTRACT:
A high-risk racing game in which two to six players own racing cars represented by their pawns which they race along routes of enumerated spaces through the United States, Canada and Mexico on a gameboard. Players are given the cars, or purchase them outright or at auction by total cash or part payment with the balance financed against a car's credit limit. A player defrays incurred expenses by cash payment or debt charged against an owned car. The first player with 100 points on the scoreboard wins the game. The scoreboard records points accumulated by players, cars owned outright and purchased, and cars available for acquisition. Each time a player lands upon or passes the gameboard's score-line space, he collects points for cars he owns, with additional points collected for two-car racing teams of each specific group. The number of gameboard spaces a player advances his pawn corresponds to a number card picked or a certain space landed upon. Landing upon certain gameboard spaces requires a player to pick a rallye card which imposes duties or penalties requiring expenses to be defrayed, provides rewards or bonuses, or exercisable options. A player, landing upon a gameboard crash space, loses a car. The unknown factors of the operative effects of the rallye cards provide excitement and apprehension because the last ranking player in the race may become the leader, and even a player forced into bankruptcy may recover to win the race.
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patent: 4082284 (1978-04-01), Jennings
patent: 4426084 (1984-01-01), Michel
Coven Edward M.
Layno Benjamin
Wessendorf, Jr. Walter F.
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