Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Piece moves over board having pattern
Patent
1996-01-18
1997-08-19
Stoll, William E.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Piece moves over board having pattern
273254, A63F 300
Patent
active
056579888
ABSTRACT:
Game equipment and a method for playing a new class of board games are provided. Board games of this class are played on a specially designed game board featuring a closed loop track, that is subdivided in token spaces. Track movement of the players' tokens depends on chance. Some groupings of token spaces form stations along the track. There are also passage routes that connect one station to another. The passage routes are provided for a passage route movement of the tokens that is preferably advantageous over and an optional alternative to track movement. A player may establish and/or acquire control of these passage routes to the exclusion of the other players. The game ends when there are no passage routes left. The preferred embodiment is an airline game of purchasing air routes. Each player is assumed to be operating an airline, and the board presents a map. The track is a roadway that is subdivided in token spaces, some groupings of which are stations shown as cities. Each city has an airport. The passage routes are air routes that connect the airports of the various cities. The preferred track movement is by rolling a die, and passage route movement is optional, and performed by a single jump. Establishing and/or acquiring control of an air route is by purchasing it. Once an air route is owned by a player, the other players must pay an air fare to use it.
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Kavounas Gregory T.
Stoll William E.
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