Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1996-09-09
1998-04-14
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273148A, 273309, 273431, 273280, A63F 300, A63F 918
Patent
active
057383545
ABSTRACT:
An entertainment and educational board game is disclosed which requires players to answer questions arranged in a hierarchy ranging from most difficult questions to questions of intermediate difficulty, and then to questions of least difficulty, and includes a playing board, a star-shaped playing course on the playing board and formed from a plurality of joined playing spaces, a plurality of sets of question cards with each set representing a particular question category, a plurality of question card boxes for the sets of question cards, and a rotatable question card box holder having compartments for holding the question card boxes and question cards. The players take turns in their attempts to correctly answer the questions printed on the question cards starting with the most difficult question level. The particular question card selected by each player as a result of his or her playing piece landing on a respective playing space corresponding to the question category for that question card set is inserted into and concealed within a scrolling pad. The questions on the back of the question card are read by another player holding the scrolling pad starting from the most difficult questions and proceeding to the least difficult questions. It is the intent of each of the participants in the game to be the first player to reach a specific end space located within the playing course and to correctly answer the question or questions on a question card selected from a predetermined question category.
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Atwell George C.
Layno Benjamin H.
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