Patent References 53561 2182531 Economic board game Board game involving multiple variables and performance determination Management teaching game method Investment board game Board game apparatus Board game apparatus for the teaching of financial management principles Board game Method of playing a tax board game Patent #: 5261672 InventorApplicationNo. 151953 filed on 11/15/1993US Classes:273/256Property or commodity transactionsExaminersPrimary: Stoll, William E.Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Patent References
International ClassA63F 003/00AbstractA game simulating financial events that a person encounters during the person's lifetime, including: a game board having disposed thereon a path of individual financial event indicia on which indicia playing pieces may land while traversing the path, the financial event indicia indicating, in some cases, mandatory or discretional financial transactions; one of the indicia being a starting point at which each player begins the game at a first predetermined age, with age advancing one year each time the starting point is passed, up to a second predetermined age at which the game terminates; first cards, each of which indicates thereon a job and a salary therefor, each player to draw one of the first cards when the game commences; second cards, each of which indicates thereon a type of business, the purchase price thereof, and the annual profits therefrom, one of the second cards to be drawn by a player, at the discretion thereof, when having a playing piece land on one of the indicia indicating a discretionary financial transaction to be made; and random number generating mechanism to be alternatingly activated by the players to determine a number of the financial event indicia to be traversed by each the playing piece for each move thereof. | |