Board game incorporating drinking beverages and method of playing board game, and board and gamepieces therefor and method of use thereof
Disclosed is a board game providing opportunities for drinking (e.g., social drinking) beverages (e.g., alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages) during playing of the game. The board game includes a plurality of side games. Of these side games, the board game provides for various miniature competitions between selected players of the plurality of players playing the game, when one of the players lands on a location of the board providing for a miniature competition. The miniature competition can be a drinking game known on college campuses. Each player has a game or playing piece which initially is in the form of an empty carton for bottles (e.g., an empty 6-pack carton), and winners of the miniature competitions win bottle-shaped structures (e.g., beverage bottle-shaped structures) to be placed in the winner's carton. The game is won by the player filling the carton gamepiece with bottle-shaped structures (e.g., filling a 6-pack carton with six beverage bottle-shaped structures).
This application claims priority under 35 USC §119(e) of prior provisional Application No. 60/526,017, filed Dec. 2, 2003, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
BACKGROUNDThe present invention relates generally to a board game, and more particularly to a board game that can incorporate drinking (for example, social drinking), e.g., of beverages (favorite beverages, such as alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages), especially incorporating various drinking games used in colleges.
Various board games have been developed and been popularized, which require certain activities to take place when the gamepiece of a player lands on a particular location of a board. For example, attention is directed to U.S. Pat. No. 5,007,650 to Reed, et al., entitled “Method of Playing a Board Game of College Social Life”. The board game described in this patent is directed to extracurricular aspects of higher education and incorporates physical actions by the players or teams during the course of playing the board game. The game board described in this patent includes a playing path located on the perimeter of the board and spaces for stacks of various types of cards used during the course of play. A single die is used by the players or teams during the course of play in order to determine movement and position of the playing pieces. As a player's playing piece lands on a specific location, a card is drawn and the player must then perform an action consistent with directions on the card. Various of the cards include directions for drinking, e.g., alcoholic beverages.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,007,650 is directed generally to extracurricular activities during the college experience, which include (but of course are not limited to) drinking, and involve, generally, game playing by a player against all other players playing the game.
U.S. Design Pat. No. D477638 discloses a board game for drinking, but does not set forth the mechanics and procedures of the game.
It is desired to provide a board game having competition among all of the players as a whole, while, within the game, having individual competitions between specific ones of the players, in a board game which involves drinking of, e.g., alcoholic beverages (but not limited to drinking wherein the beverage is an alcoholic beverage; the beverage can be a non-alcoholic beverage).
SUMMARYThe present invention provides a game board, and a method of playing a game (that is, a method of playing a board game), which includes a competition among all the players, as well as specific competitions between selected ones of the players (that is, miniature competitions), e.g., less than all of the players, for example, between two of the players. The board game includes a plurality of side games which are played during the playing of the board game in general; these side games include the miniature competitions.
The game board includes locations which give rise to these miniature competitions between selected players, and other locations giving rise to drinking sips of, or chugging, a beverage (for example, but not to be limiting, an alcoholic beverage, but which can also be a non-alcohol beverage, for example, a favorite beverage). Thus, the side games are initiated by one of the players landing on a location designating that the side game be played. Illustratively, and not to be limiting, the miniature competitions can be drinking games quite often played on college campuses, such as (but not limited to) “Quarter Challenge” and “B.S. Bluff”. Illustratively, the game board has locations which, when landed upon by a player, will require such player or another player to drink the beverage.
As an additional aspect of the present invention, the gamepieces (playing pieces) provide competition among all of the players. Each game (playing) piece can start out as, for example, a piece resembling an empty carton, such as an empty carton for holding a six-pack of beverages with structures being added to the gamepiece during playing of the game, for example, when winning a miniature competition. One overall object of the game is to completely fill the player's carton (playing piece) with structures, the first one completely filling the carton being the winner.
Illustratively, and not to be limiting, the carton can be in the shape of a 6-pack container for, e.g., a beverage such as beer, with each of the structures for filling the container being in the shape of a bottle (for example, a beverage bottle, such as a beer bottle). The winner of the game is the first one to add six bottle structures to the empty 6-pack playing piece. Of course, the playing piece can hold less than or more than six structures, e.g., 12 structures in the shape of bottles, for example.
Accordingly, the present board game, and method of playing the board game, provide entertainment generally with competition among all of the players, with side games, and with miniature competitions within the general board game providing selected competition between specified ones of all of the players. Moreover, the present board game has an additional feature of providing drinking, including social drinking, of, e.g., a favorite beverage, for example, an alcoholic beverage such as beer, while playing the board game. The board game uses unique playing pieces and additional components (e.g., bottle structures) for determining the winner of the game.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Throughout the present disclosure, where it is described that the structure comprises or includes specified components, the structure can consist essentially of, and consist of, the specified components; and where it is described that the method comprises or includes specified steps, the method can consist essentially of, and consist of, such specified steps.
In the following is set forth objects and rules for one specific embodiment of the game according to the present invention, using the game board of
According to this embodiment, the object of the game is to fill an empty 6-pack gamepiece with bottles (for example, green and brown bottles) collected throughout game play. These bottles are awarded, inter alia, respectively to the winner of two miniature competitions played in the game (Quarter Challenge, B.S. Bluff), each time the miniature competition is played, these two miniature competitions being discussed in the following. This game can be played with players' favorite type of beverage, which can be an alcoholic beverage but can also be other types of beverages. The game is not intended to be played only with alcoholic beverages, and can be played using non-alcoholic beverages.
In getting started, the game desirably has at least three players, more preferably four or more (e.g., five) players. A quarter and two cups (preferably, non-transparent cups) are also needed. One of these non-transparent cups will be placed on the center of the board in the “DRINK CUP” spot; and a comfortable amount of a favorite beverage (e.g., beer) is poured in this first non-transparent cup (“DRINK CUP”). The other non-transparent cup goes on the B.S. Bluff circular spot, near the “Drink Cup Right”, and is, e.g., inverted, with one of two dice placed under this other non-transparent cup. The quarter is placed on the spot on the game board with the picture of the quarter (quarter holder 5 in
Each player chooses an empty 6-pack and begins on the space marked *START* A RULE. Each player rolls one dice, and the highest roll goes first. After this person having the highest roll goes, the game order moves, for example, counter clockwise.
The game is played by rolling only one of the die. Whatever the number rolled, is the amount of spaces that the player may move. When landing on a numbered spot, depending on the number rolled on the die, the player landing on the numbered spot will either drink or pass out a number of “sips” (“sips” of the beverage). “Sips” are determined by the difference between the die roll and the number on the board. If the die number is higher than the number on the board, the player passes those “sips” to another player. If the die number rolled is lower than the number on the board, the player must drink that amount of “sips”. When passing out the number of “sips”, the player may split them between two or more other players. If the die number is equal to the number on the board, each player “sips” the number amount on the die/board in a “social” manner. The DRINK CUP is filled with more beverage at this time.
Illustratively, if a die roll is a 5 and the player lands on a number 3, two “sips” are passed out. If the player's die roll is a 3 and the player lands on a number 5, the player must consume 2 “sips”. If the die roll is a 5 and the player lands on a number 5, everyone says “SOCIAL” and everyone takes 5 “sips”.
In the following are set forth specific rules when a player lands on other spaces of the game board shown in
(Example (1) of a Rule: Thumb rule: When the player (who made this rule) secretly places his or her thumb on the table, the other players must do the same. The last person to place his or her thumb on the table must drink until the Thumb master puts his thumb down; Example (2) of a Rule: Anytime someone says Drink, Drank, or Drunk, you must take a “Sip”; etc.)
There are two ways to win bottles for filling the 6-pack container. These are set forth in the following:
Many different embodiments of the present invention may be constructed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It should be understood that the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiment described in this specification. To the contrary, the present invention is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the claims.
Claims
1. Gamepiece for a board game, comprising a member adapted to hold bottle-shaped structures collected during playing of the board game.
2. Gamepiece according to claim 1, wherein the member is a member having a shape of a 6-pack holder of beverages, and said bottle-shaped structures are in the form of bottles for holding beverages.
3. Gamepiece according to claim 2, wherein the gamepiece has a 6-pack carton design of a respective type of beverage.
4. A plurality of gamepieces according to claim 3, wherein each gamepiece has a carton design of a different brand of beverage.
5. Method of playing a game using a gamepiece according to claim 1, wherein a player of the game uses the gamepiece traveling around a board of the board game; at predetermined locations of the board the player plays a miniature competition; and where the player wins the miniature competition the player collects a bottle-shaped structure to place in said gamepiece.
6. Method according to claim 5, wherein the game is played until a player collects bottle-shaped structures so as to fill up the member.
7. A board for a board game, having a continuous path around the board and at least one location on the board where miniature competitions between a player landing on said at least one location and another player are initiated.
8. The board according to claim 7, wherein the continuous path around the board includes diverging paths where a player can choose to proceed in one of two directions.
9. The board according to claim 8, wherein the continuous path includes a path around the periphery of the board and a path, continuous with the peripheral path, diagonally across the board.
10. A board game comprising the board according to claim 7 and a plurality of gamepieces, one for each player, each gamepiece comprising a member adapted to hold bottle-shaped structures collected during playing of the board game.
11. The board game according to claim 10, wherein the member is a member having a shape of a 6-pack holder of beverages, and said bottle-shaped structures are in the form of beverage bottles.
12. The board game according to claim 10, wherein each gamepiece has a carton design of different brand of beverage.
13. Method of playing a board game by a plurality of players using the board according to claim 7, comprising the steps of:
- (a) each player chooses a different gamepiece, each gamepiece being adapted to hold a same number of bottle-shaped structures therein but containing less than said same number of bottle-shaped structures at the beginning of the game;
- (b) each player, starting at a same starting point, in turn determining landing positions along said path by chance means;
- (c) when a player, of the plurality of players, lands on a location along said path which directs that a miniature competition take place, said player plays said miniature competition with another of said plurality of players, and a winner of said miniature competition wins a bottle-shaped structure for the gamepiece of said winner; and
- (d) when a player fills the player's gamepiece with bottle-shaped structures, so as to have a filled gamepiece, the player with the filled gamepiece wins the board game.
14. The method of playing the board game according to claim 13, wherein second locations along said path, other than locations which directs that said miniature competitions take place, are locations which direct players landing thereon to take drinks of beverages or which permit the player landing thereon to require other players to take drinks of beverages.
15. The method of playing the board game according to claim 14, wherein said beverages are favorite beverages.
16. The method of playing a board game according to claim 13, wherein the continuous path around the board includes diverging paths where a player can choose to proceed in one of two directions.
Type: Application
Filed: Dec 2, 2004
Publication Date: Jun 2, 2005
Inventor: David Wagner (San Diego, CA)
Application Number: 11/000,993