Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1996-09-12
1997-11-04
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273146, A63F 300
Patent
active
056830882
ABSTRACT:
A game board apparatus and method of playing the game according to the present invention includes a game board arranged with four player areas. The four player areas are arranged in a virtually identical manner and each is marked for one of the four suits of a conventional deck of playing cards. Each player area includes four blocks with each block being partitioned into two game spaces which are separated by a ladder. The cards marked in the eight game spaces are for the two through nine of that player's suit. Above the ladders in each player's area are four squares marked for the jack, queen, king, and ace of that player's suit. An initial target value is assigned for the play of the game and a conventional deck of playing cards with a joker-like wild card mixed in is shuffled and placed on the game board. A conventional die in combination with a color-coded die is used by each player during their turn. The conventional die determines the number of game spaces to be moved by a common game token, used by all players. The color-coded die determines the number of cards to be drawn by that player on his turn. Once all the cards of the deck are drawn, a round has ended and the players generate their own score based upon the cards which they are holding at the time the round ends. The objective is to reach a score which equals the target amount.
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