Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1998-07-20
2000-02-01
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273431, A63F 300, A63F 918
Patent
active
060193700
ABSTRACT:
An educational board game includes a game board having a playing surface defined by a travel path divided into plural spaces arranged seriatim and defined by at least one of number, color and subject matter indicia, such spaces being disposed between a "start space" and a "finish space" on the travel path. Multiple players use individual playpieces to advance along the travel path from start to finish. Players take turns attempting to advance along the travel path by correctly answering questions from a selection of questions and answers printed in a book according to selected subject matter categories. Players advance their playpieces by correctly answering the questions. Questions and subject matter categories are selected by chance through rolling a set of dice whose numbers identify the subject matter category and question. Gaming chips may be used to accumulate extra points toward determining a game winner and through betting by the player whose turn it is to answer a question and by challenges to the answer by other players in the game. The game subject matter categories may be derived around a theme, such as college life in a particular group of colleges based on an athletic conference, for example.
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