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| 7341455 | Method and system for training traders Systems and methods are provided which enable students to participate in a simulated, electronic trading environment. The concept is one where the eSpeed rules based system and GUI may be used to educate students on the trading of financial products. The system may ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7320466 | New York mafia board game A method of playing a board game comprising the steps: providing players each given money and starting at a first rank; providing dice; providing a game board having a plurality of playing spaces, that are either owned or available businesses, arranged around the ou... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313539 | Method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services A method and system for reserving future purchases of goods or services. A server network device provides to a client network device via a computer network, a list of available goods or services including plural electronic options with associated option fees for the... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7287753 | Game and method of play A game for a plurality of players includes a playing area having playing stations which form a path along which the players move game pieces. The playing area includes a plurality of franchise site playing stations which represent a franchise location, such as a cit... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7275745 | Wealth board game A board game and method of playing the board game wherein players move their game pieces in a path on the game board having landing spots in accordance with a combination of a numbers die and a words die. A spinner having a finger-activated spinning arrow pivotally ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7219895 | Chess game playing array assembly A chess game playing array assembly including a plurality of three-dimensional playing segments is disclosed. The playing segments are disposed relative to one another to define an array of playing spaces on which a game of chess may be played. One or more of the pl... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7204693 | Egyptian pyramids board game The game includes a playing board having a predetermined continuous path with spaces for movement of pieces therealong in accordance with rules. The playing board includes: (i) marked historical location spaces designating a specified historical location based on a ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7185890 | Method and apparatus for playing a stock trading simulation game A method of playing a stock trading simulation game is disclosed and includes providing a game apparatus including a game board having a plurality of spaces marked thereon defining a path of movement on the game board, with a portion of the plurality of spaces repre... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7171383 | Methods and systems for rapid deployment of a valuation system An integrated system organizes a company's experiences, operating procedures, best practices, information sources, competitive information and analytical tools. The goal is increasing profitability within a due diligence process while facilitating ongoing operations... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162444 | Method, system and computer program product for valuating natural gas contracts using weather-based metrics A method, system and computer program product for valuating natural gas futures and options contracts using weather-based metrics. The method and computer program product allow gas buyers and traders to make informed decision on purchasing/selling natural gas future... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7110970 | Methods and apparatus for rapid deployment of a valuation system An integrated system organizes a company's experiences, operating procedures, best practices, information sources, competitive information and analytical tools. The goal is increasing profitability within a due diligence process while facilitating ongoing operations... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103560 | System and method for weather adapted, business performance forecasting A system and method for forecasting future retail performance are described herein. The system includes a storage device that stores a sales history database, a weather history database, and a weather forecast database. An analyzer determines the extent to which pas... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7086647 | Trucking board game apparatus and method A method for playing a game related to trucking where the player is one or more of a truck driver, a federal or state official regulating the truck driver, or owner of a 1) service center, 2) insurance company, 3) truck stop having a restaurant, 4) produce broker, s... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7044466 | Food recipe game There is provided a food preparation recipe game and a method for playing the game. A spin wheel having a pointer is provided and includes a plurality of encoded possible landing spaces. A plurality of recipe cards is provided, each of which lists a plurality of ing... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7028005 | Methods and systems for finding value and reducing risk A method of valuation of large groups of assets by a partial full underwriting, partial sample underwriting and inferred valuation of the remainder using an iterative and adaptive statistical evaluation of all assets and statistical inferences drawn from the evaluat... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7017910 | Card game A game, including a plurality of Message Cards. In another aspect, a method of playing a card game, including providing a plurality of Message Cards to each player and each player in his or her turn providing one or more Message Cards from his or her hand to one or ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6962337 | Gaming method and apparatus A method and apparatus for gaming that arranges and uses numbers on its game board in a manner consistently with the first several rows of Pascal's Triangle. The gaming method and apparatus includes the use of tokens or chips that bear indicia corresponding to the s... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6962336 | Credit card debt management board game A board game comprising a board with a path having spaces thereon, wherein the path is navigated around the board by rolling dice, with the purpose being to teach the management and elimination of credit card debt. The game incorporates real life situations requirin... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6939137 | Method and system for training traders Systems and methods are provided which enable students to participate in a simulated, electronic trading environment. The concept is one where the eSpeed rules based system and GUI may be used to educate students on the trading of financial products. The system may ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6931365 | Industry simulation environment An apparatus and method for simulating a global industrial environment. In one embodiment, the global industrial environment models a global economy as a set of interlinked economies, models a management framework as a set of interlinked management functionalities, ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6817613 | System and method for teaching project management skills A project management game is provided that includes a game board having indicia thereon representing a plurality of tasks that collectively form a plurality of deliverables to be completed and to be managed by a plurality of participants in the game. The participant... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6805351 | Lawsuit board game An educational, legal based game and method for players, has a board with spaces on which the players land. The spaces instruct players to bring a simulated lawsuit or to act as a result of a simulated circumstance associated with the legal profession. A fund of pla... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6769691 | Apparatus for financial investment education and entertainment The present invention 10 discloses a game to be played upon a board 12 wherein a plurality of spaces 14 are sequentially placed around the perimeter of the board. The spaces 14 comprise a plurality of property deed spaces with associated ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6767210 | Method of teaching financial management A method of teaching financial management of an enterprise, comprising: providing objects representing a balance sheet and income statement, also providing a source of monetary markers, the source representing the general economy, selecting an instruction to illustr... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6764077 | Financial board game Disclosed herein is a financial board game that teaches its players about buying and selling securities, about investment strategies, and about the business world. The game as disclosed includes a plurality of spaces forming a closed loop path about the periphery of... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6709330 | Stock simulation engine for an options trading game An options simulation engine for an options trading game. The present invention comprises a game engine for keeping track of game time and game settings, an options market simulator for providing a real-world options trading environment, and a portfolio manager engi... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6446970 | Stock market investment game A game apparatus for teaching players issues related to investments and the stock market is disclosed. A game board is provided that describes a pathway for player movement thereon. Player movement about the game board is determined according to the roll ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6390472 | Pseudo-commodities interactive futures trading game The disclosed trading game is comprised of a clearing house setting up specific contracts defined as issues each having no innate financial value but of local, national or international interest and involving social, financial, business, political, sports... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6352259 | Pet lover's board game The present invention is a pet lover's board game. It includes a playing board having a predetermined continuous path with spaces for movement of pieces therealong in accordance with rules. The playing board has marked breed spaces designating a specified... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6322076 | Investment board game and method of playing same An investment board game and game method are disclosed. The board includes an endless path along which the players' game pieces are moved. The path includes a plurality of stock spaces, each representing a stock and a stock purchase price. Upon moving to ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6247698 | Wine region board and card game A board game apparatus upon which a card game is played contains a plurality of principal areas representing either a) international wine-producing continents in the world or, b) districts within a wine region depending upon whether the game version is a)... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6237915 | Board game for teaching project management skills A game for teaching project management skills is disclosed. The game includes a play space having an area to track progress of tasks from a predetermined group of tasks which upon completion constitutes a game project. The project tasks when completed con... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6189886 | Board game based on stock market concepts A board game based on stock market concepts comprising a game board (10) having a path of varibly-colored spaces beginning at one top corner, winding up and down across the board, and ending at the opposite top corner. As players move around the board, th... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6170824 | Corporate Authority: a board game about the rank and order structure of corporate job title and the consequences of two separate companies merging This invention is a two-player, hide and attack, scavenger hunt strategy board game that is a hybrid combination of Checkers, Chess, Stratego and Life. This board game allows each player to have the ability of making, naming, and drawing their own game pi... | 01/09/2001 |
| 5934674 | Stock market game A stock market game apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a game board defining a game piece movement pathway thereon including a plurality of movement units. At least some of these movement units are associated with a plurality of stocks used fo... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5743531 | Mathematical investment game A mathematical investment game comprising: a game board having a central region including a large circle divided into first, second, third and fourth equally sized quadrants, a spinner including a central pivot pin being rotatably coupled to the centerpoi... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5564701 | Casino oriented gaming apparatus and method incorporating randomly generated numbers A gaming apparatus having at least two competing objects each identified by an associated unique set of identification symbols wherein a game is played by positioning the objects in competition as a function of numbers associated with each object. The gam... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5358242 | Ball storage device for pinball games A planetary ball storage device for a pinball game according to the present invention consists of a horizontally disposed rotating wheel having a plurality of pinball receiving pockets arrayed on the periphery of the wheel. The game player, using the flip... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5207431 | Insurance policy game apparatus A game apparatus includes a game board arranged with a plurality of columns of insurance categories, with each category including a plurality of spaces corresponding to first through fifth faces of a second die member, with the second die member including... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5163687 | Basketball franchise game apparatus A game board to receive a plurality of decks of cards to include a deck of game cards and player cards, as well as draft cards, provided to direct game participants in selecting and establishing teams of various values and worth. Limits are placed upon su... | 11/17/1992 |
