Abstract: A board game comprising a game board, games pieces, dice, score cards, score sheets, and play money. At the beginning of the game, each player will receive a check list, along with two twenty dollar bills, three ten dollar bills, three five dollar bills, four two dollar bills, and seven one dollar bills. The dice will then be rolled to determine the order of play. Players cannot swap, trade, or borrow monies or properties during game play; a player will not be allowed to purchase or sell to the student store. One trip around the board, during play, is representative of a year, and will be broken down into twelve months, and will include properties, bills and expenses to be paid, and income to be made. A player may not purchase any properties unless he or she lands upon the appropriate space. More than one player may occupy a space at once. Players may not purchase any properties the first time around the board; however, all expenses must be paid, at any time during the game.

Abstract: A business related board game is provided with a game board, a plurality of license cards, and card holders. During play, each player may jointly purchase various token businesses and further take out loans for purchasing the token businesses, thereby simulating a business environment.

Abstract: A business board game in which players attempt to win the game by transforming industries into cartels. Transformation of industries into cartels is by means of buying the majority of partnership stocks of all companies placed within specific industries. Controlling cartels enable players to sell essential products to their fellow players that own the partnership stocks in companies of other industries for a very high price to eventually cause bankruptcy. Such cartel product selling to other players is possible because the partnership stocks carry with them an unlimited liability. The game further includes cards that affect company book values per partnership stocks to further affect the market price of partnership stocks. Also, stock trading between players and the bank is involved where players try to make money by buying low and selling high, liquidate to cover expenses or just sell to escape the unlimited liability that comes along with owning partnership stocks.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a board game for teaching basic arithmetic and mathematical operations to small children and others in need of such skills. The game board includes a continuous rectangular peripheral playing path having a series of playing positions therealong, with each of the positions requiring a player to accept or pay out an amount of simulated currency. The goal is for a player to reach a predetermined monetary total, whereupon the player may purchase an imaginary "dream trip" with the accrued money. For very young persons beginning to learn basic addition and subtraction, this first level of the game may be sufficient. However, the present game also provides higher levels, in which players are required to perform some higher mathematical operation using a random number generation device (dice, etc.) to provide the numbers to be manipulated mathematically, before being able to advance along the playing path.

Abstract: A new Marketing Board Game for simulating the expansion of a business from state to state with the objective of gaining the largest market share. The inventive device includes a game board having an illustration of the United States thereon, wherein the illustration of the United States is divided into a plurality of individual states, and a plurality of playing pieces to be moved among the plurality of individual states of the United States. A plurality of query cards having printed thereon a question and an answer corresponding to the question for each of a number of subject matter categories are provided for determining acquisition and ownership of the market share and associated profits of each of the plurality of individual states. A plurality of bonus cards having printed thereon favorable and unfavorable announcements and mandates are provided for introducing instructions to be followed during the course of the game.

Abstract: A board game for teaching a family interested in purchasing a home about the construction steps involved in building a dwelling. Each player is provided with a game piece representing a family interested in building a home. A game board is provided which has a sequence of spaces around the perimeter indicating a particular step of construction and an amount representing the cost of construction. A separate playing path provided through the middle of the game board has angularly steps indicated thereon. A money station is provided on the board representing sources of funds for home down payments. One or more bank draw spaces are provided in the corners of the rectangular playing board to provide extra money to the players as the game progresses.

Abstract: A board game apparatus for teaching industrial safety rules and procedures includes a game board, playing pieces, question cards and a score card. The game board includes a representation of various component parts of an industrial organization, and a path connecting the component parts. During the course of the game, the playing pieces are moved along the path and the players answer questions from the question cards relating to various safety topics for the workplaces within the organization. The first player to answer questions successfully to each of the safety topics and return to the start position wins the game.

Abstract: A game apparatus having a game board divided into a grid pattern. Playing paths are arranged to allow player tokens to progress along bordering grid squares in a predesignated manner until player's token enters a center area. Players are rewarded and penalized by landing on grid squares or drawing cards resulting in gain or loss of play money. Additional territorial areas are set aside on the game board providing players with the opportunity to further penalize other players for landing therein. The purpose of the game is to accumulate and maintain the most wealth by game's end.

Abstract: There is an apparatus for playing a game which comprises a game board having sequentially marked spaces along which a plurality of game pieces may be moved. At least some of the spaces correspond to stations where a player may purchase game building components or notional building services to assemble a miniature structure. The apparatus further including building components including miniature ground slab (8), walls (9, 10), ceiling (11), roof (12) and chimney components (13) which interfit in a predetermined manner with at least one of said components incorporating a power supply (17) and light element (18) which upon completion of said structure lights up said structure to identify a winning player.

Abstract: A board game (10), which comprises a game board (12) having a continuous path (14) around its perimeter divided into consecutive spaces. Most of the spaces (16) bear names of states, airports, telephone companies and interstate highways with amounts of money needed to purchase them. The first corner space (18) bears the word "GO" indicating a start position. The second corner space (20) bears the abbreviation "IRS". The third corner space (22) bears the word "JAIL", a symbol for jail and the amount of money needed to pay to get out of jail. A fourth corner space (24) bears the word "BANK". A plurality of playing pieces (26) are provided, one for each of the game players. The playing pieces (26) are of a size to fit within each of the spaces (16), (18), (20), (22) and (24) on the game board (12).

Abstract: A recreational and educational vocabulary-building board game for a minimum of two players which includes a game board having a plurality of sequential spaces with the letters of the alphabet, direction, and vocabulary-related categories thereon; a plurality of cards having word definitions, directions, or vocabulary-related questions and answers thereon and adapted for chance selection of a card one at a time; a plurality of place markers corresponding to each of the players; and a mechanism for determining the number of spaces to be traversed by each place marker in accordance with established game rules.

Abstract: 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 gaming apparatus includes a random symbol generator generating a random sequence of the symbols. A computer device calculates an independent incremental value (I.sub.x) for each object based on each symbol drawn in the random sequence. Each incremental value (I.sub.x) calculated for each object is a function of the identification symbols contained in the associated set, and each determines an independent incremental progression of play of each respective object. The computer device further computes a position value (M.sub.x) for each object which is a function of the respective incremental value (I.sub.x) for each object, and for each symbol drawn in the random sequence. This position value determines a competing game position relative to any other object.

Abstract: Disclosed is an instructional game in which participants may be exposed to a multitude of careers or occupations and also participants may be exposed to a variety of predicaments which are to be encountered in a working life.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a board game for two to four players relating to highway construction, the object of which is to be first to complete the sequence of operations of a highway construction project. An inner track on the game board depicts the operations of the construction project which must be completed in sequence by purchasing the necessary equipment for each operation. Completion of an operation earns a monetary draw from the bank and advancement to the next operation. An outer track and a random number selector provide random opportunities to purchase necessary equipment interdispersed with random mandatory supplemental instructions which may benefit or penalize the player. Players may sell or auction off used or surplus equipment. The game may include supplemental educational components.

Abstract: A parlor game that, during the play thereof, allows a plurality of players to simulate making purchases and sales transactions involving various tangible properties by dealing with a plurality of fictitious customers with the goal of each player being to maximize his net worth. This game uses parlor game apparatus strips. These parlor game apparatus strips make up a device used as a pathway or trail for playing a parlor game for entertainment, each strip unit being separate from the other, acting together as a playing field having marked spaces constituting a track or pathway of play. Spaces have writing, drawings, pictures, or game options in them.

Abstract: A baseball board game played with playing cards, memo cards, player cards, play money, and miniature players for movement around a board along two paths of travel. Miniaturized baseball player figures constituting sets of distinctive markers move around the first path of travel and the second path of travel. The board is rectangular and is formed with nine small blocks located along each edge of the board and with a large box with instructional information at each corner which together constitute a first path of travel. The board also has indicia in the center of the board with a home plate and three bases which together constitute. A second path of travel; a plurality of playing cards give numerical information to a participant for the movement of miniaturized players around the first path of travel. A plurality of memo cards are also provided adapted to give play-type information to a participant for movement of miniaturized players around the second path of travel.

Abstract: A 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

Abstract: A board game of international finance simulates travel and financial exchanges between participants in two or more nations. The game includes travel about a playing path generally along the periphery of the board and the simulated purchase by the players of various properties or cities in each nation. The owners of the properties or cities may collect taxes from other players who land on the owners' properties. Numerically uneven currency exchange rates enter into the play of the game and are randomly variable, according to the draw of cards during the game. In one embodiment, two nations are represented, and in another more advanced embodiment, four nations are represented, as well as additional features such as stocks and bonds. The game provides a somewhat realistic simulation of current international financial dealings.

Abstract: A transportation game comprised of a map showing cities interconnected by routes divided into segments of equal length, hometowns at which the players' trucks respectively start, contract cards indicating cities at which loads are to be picked up, cities to which they are to be delivered and the fees therefor, designations in respective segments: that a penalty card is to be drawn from a stack including cards having questions related to driving safety; that a reward card is to be drawn from a stack including cards indicating that money paid from fines into a truckers escrow account is to be received; that cards having questions of a general nature are to be drawn from a stack; that the truck is at a weigh station and a chance mechanism is to be operated to determine the penalty for overweight; that the truck is at a truck stop and that a chance mechanism is to be operated to determine the amount of money to be received and also including a chance mechanism.

Abstract: A board game includes a housing container to secure a foldable game board having first and second card groups to accommodate singles or team play. The game is directed to acquire property in four categories and to effect play until ultimate finish of the four categories and response to questions upon landing upon one of a plurality of "crown" spaces throughout the board is effected. The game further includes acquisition tokens shaped to correspond to the properties. Each acquisition token is illuminatable such that when a player acquires a property the corresponding acquisition token is illuminated to visually indicate acquisition of that property.

Abstract: A board game having a playing surface incorporating a representation of land masses separated by oceanic expanses, with the latter divided into segmented movement areas, and further employing playing equipment for the purchase, shipment and sale of oil, freight and goods from one land mass to another.

Abstract: A baseball board game including a plurality of tokens, each of which represent one of the players, a random number generator, a multiplicity of play money, and a game board having a baseball-like playing field and a multiplicity of playing spaces formed on the baseball-like playing field which cooperatively define a continuous closed path in the form of a baseball diamond along which the tokens are moveable in random increments.

Abstract: A board game wherein each player represents the owner of a sports team and the object of the game is to build a profitable and winning team. Each player advances a playing piece along an endless path of contiguous spaces and is free to engage in deal-making involving trades and sales with the other owners. The game may be directed toward any suitable team sport since the game is more closely related to the business aspects of sports and requires only a minimal knowledge of the rules of the sport itself.

Abstract: An educational game for teaching arithmetic includes a game board having a travel route divided into segments, at least one arithmetic problem printed within each of at least some of the segments, several individual game tokens, each token for marking a player's location along the travel route, a chance control device for determining the extent of a single movement of each token, and an answer card providing the solution to the at least one arithmetic problem, and is offered at several levels of difficulty.

Abstract: A game construction wherein a gameboard is provided with an endless circular path surrounding a continent. The path includes designated nation spaces serially there-along, within nation blocks which correspond to incidental spaces within continental quadrants. Movement of tokens along the path is indicated by chance. The players attempt to acquire a majority of regional nations for the purpose of collecting revenue and are subject by chance to various import and export opportunities, thereby simulating personal and business life occurences and economic realities in actual particularly African nations. The winner is the wealthiest player at the end of the game.

Abstract: A game board having a single path to include an outer path and an inner path, whereupon the outer and inner paths include first through fourth spaces of respective monetary, penalty, and respective first and second coloration spaces, wherein the monetary spaces indicate expenses to be borne by an associated player, wherein penalty spaces are directed to a player losing a turn and the like, the first coloration spaces direct players to draw a card from a first card deck to provide that player with income, wherein the fourth spaces are of a second coloration and direct a player to draw cards from a second coloration deck for providing tax breaks to the individual at conclusion of the game to determine remaining income available to each player. The player having the most amount of available monetary funds is declared a winner.

Abstract: A board game that educates and informs the players specifically about the various techniques and skills involved with certain games of chance and generally, about the gambling businesses currently operating in cities like Las Vegas, Nev. The game board is provided with two principal areas, including an outer board section and an inner board section. The outer section consists of a plurality of consecutive spaces situated around the periphery of the board forming a path of travel for each player's movable piece. Most of these spaces represent a particular casino currently operating in Las Vegas, Nev. A few of these spaces are designated with indicia that directs a player to act according to the instructions or graphical depictions thereon. The inner board section comprises a simulated roulette wheel with a spinner situated in the center. Around the spinner are formed a plurality of individual numbers in a circular arrangement and a series of example poker hands surrounding the numbers.

Abstract: A board game in which players acquire, then sell, sports cards. Each player is represented by a piece which traverses, in rotating turns, a common path along the board. Progress along the path is determined by a throw of a die. Upon his or her piece landing on a given square, a player makes a purchasing decision relating to a sports card represented by the square. Certain squares along the path are associated with instructions affecting a player's amassed wealth. After traversing the board, a second game phase begins in which acquired sports cards are surrendered for symbolic value, the disposal value being determined by further die throws. In this second phase, the color of a die face rather than the die numerical indicia determines disposal value. The player amassing the greatest symbolic value wins.

Abstract: A combination construction board game and advertising medium which includes a board having a first series of spaces over which playing pieces are moved to acquire financing and to make selections with respect to housing plans and types of construction which are selected and are purchased using a first set of cards and a second series of spaces where players pay off construction loans and furnish the homes being constructed with amenities selected from a second set of cards which designate a variety of fixtures, furniture and/or home improvements or amenities and wherein at least some of the cards displaying amenities carry advertising of the actual manufacturer of the product or service.

Abstract: A board game in which the game board is marked to form an endless main path simulating the main corridor of a shopping mall. Additional markings define endless branch paths simulating individual stores in the shopping mall. Playyers acquire the right to purchase specific items of merchandise in the branch paths by landing on specific spaces in the main path and picking merchandise items cards from a pack of cards. Other spaces on the main path direct the player to a spinner mechanism which can be used to obtain play money with which to purchase specific items of merchandise. The aim of the game is to purchase the highest possible dollar value of merchandise.

Abstract: A board game is disclosed which includes a game board with marked spaces constituting a path of progression about the board. A number of the spaces are designated for various leased game spaces. A plurality of special cards are also provided, each card uniquely indicating the lease ownership of a particular leased game. The remaining spaces are designated for certain reward/penalty functions and game spaces which may not be leased. Playing pieces, money chips, special playing cards, a special die and various individual reward/penalty fortune cards are also included to determine penalties, payments or benefits to be accrued to a player whose playing piece comes to rest upon a particular location which may be leased or is a reward/penalty location. Dice are provided to determine the movement of each player's playing piece along the progression of spaces on the board. Letter cards to the word CA$INO are provided, which letters may be purchased at various designated times during play.

Abstract: A financial game includes a circuitous path, including various bonus and penalty spaces directed therethrough, with each of the game path spaces of the circuitous path arranged in association with a company and associated stock, wherein individuals decide to either buy or not buy certain stocks, wherein various penalty and bonus spaces direct a player to a penalty or bonus card to indicate a rise or fall of prices of stocks purchased, wherein a player to obtain a predetermined simulated dollar amount is declared a winner.

Abstract: A board game that simulates a baseball club franchise in which the objective is to maximize income and team player quality. Commercial baseball cards are used having real life players and their playing statistics. The winning point score depends upon the monetary income and the baseball card player statistics.

Abstract: The invention concerns a game based on the music business comprising a board means (12) resembling a double album foldable sleeve, consisting of two separately marked game playing areas (15,26) each having a plurality of distinct compartments (15B,27-28), random number selector means (22-24,51), a plurality of distinct counters (50), a plurality of instruction cards (16-20), a form of artificial currency, award indicators (52) and rules consisting essentially of the following:a) in each of the playing areas the players move from compartment to compartment following the instructionsb) while playing in the first playing area the players go round (normally in a single direction) and accumulate money (from a bank holding the money supply).c) in the second playing area the players move from a start end to an award end but normally can select in which direction they move on any turn. During this movement the players are obliged to pay money to the Bank but can collect awards.

Abstract: A competitive board game representing world alliances competing economically and militarily for world power, wherein a game board is provided imprinted with a map of the world or a substantial portion thereof, which map is divided into a cellular network for placement of playing pieces, and bordered by a path consisting of a plurality of spaces representing the countries of the map interspersed with spaces of chance, for movement of playing tokens as indicated by chance means, whereby the players, through a combination of luck and skill, employ economic and/or military strategies to dominate the world.

Abstract: A game is disclosed using random movement of playing pieces by players to teach biblical principles. The game includes a board having a playing path divided into several spaces. A playing piece, one for each player, is placed on the "Start" space and oriented to represent religiously "unconverted" players. The playing pieces move counterclockwise along the path in accordance to the roll of the dice. Counterclockwise movement continues until a playing piece lands on a "Sunday" space, at which point the corresponding player throws the dice again. If the number on the dice is even, the player remains "unconverted" and continues to move counterclockwise. If the number on the dice is odd, the playing piece is reversed to indicate that the player is religiously "converted", and moves the playing piece in a clockwise direction for the rest of the game. Property spaces, property deeds and play money provide players the opportunity to invest while moving along the path.

Abstract: A board game is disclosed which includes a game board having a peripheral playing path divided into several fields. The fields represents opportunities to buy or sell housing or stock, personal expenses to be paid, and salary to be received. The playing path is represented as one calendar year, and the fields are grouped into the four financial quarters of the year, wherein each side of the board represents a financial quarter. The game further includes game pieces representing housing and stock, tokens, dice for determining movement of the tokens along the path, and simulated currency. Also included are returns tables having indexed monetary amounts. The dice randomly selects a monetary amount and this amount is added to the value of an investment, adjusting its value. The game involves players buying and selling stocks and housing, paying personal expenses, rent and taxes, and receiving income. The object being to build the greatest financial worth.

Abstract: A board game apparatus and method are disclosed. The board game and method have a transportation motif, a railroad motif being preferred. In its preferred practice, play of the game involves completion of a plurality of shipments or deliveries of commodities to a plurality of destinations. A novel method of playing the board game is disclosed which involves placement of described means to avoid various strategically determined consequences.

Abstract: In its preferred form the present invention provides a board, skill or social interaction game which in normal use simulates world travel, including a board having two zones marked thereon, a number of cards and a number of playing pieces. Players score points by moving playing pieces on the first zone, using resources and opportunities, represented by cards, acquired by movement of a further playing piece on the second zone and an exercise of chance or skill. This exercise preferably includes identification of the geographical location of a place of tourist significance or other tourist attraction depicted on one face of cards.

Abstract: A coin game which is played on a game board having thereon a multiplicity of individualized landing spaces along the game board path. Each landing space has a specific designation. Along the path, are general landing squares, each representing one of a set of 24 Peace Dollar Series coins. Other landing squares are action squares wherein a player has the option of buying or selling coins, buying or selling silver shares or gold shares, or receiving money. The object of the game is to either collect the entire 24 Peace Dollar Series of coins or alternatively accumulate a sufficient amount of cash so that the player can acquire the rare 1927-D $20 St. Gaudin gold coin for $150,000. The game pits players against each other. Each player is given a certain amount of cash at the start of the game and a playing piece to move along the game board. The game is educational in that it teaches the player about coins and coin collecting and is also a game of both chance and skill.

Abstract: A board game and method of playing and designing the game which emulates business property manipulation and retail sales wherein the business properties involved are tailored to fit a specific area of interest or region through the expedient of using preselected groups of playing cards representing business properties such as franchises and the method of tailoring the game to contemporary life by selling to businesses, the advertising advantage of being represented in the game as a business which is one of the integral elements in the play of the game, which, for the players includes the goal of winning prize coupons for merchandise or services to be provided by the participating businesses.

Abstract: A game kit is provided with movable playing pieces, movable barriers, and a game board having a circumferential track. The track includes pluralities of sequential spaces to receive the movable pieces, as a player moves them around said track, and barrier spaces running across the width of the tracks to receive the movable barriers. The barrier spaces on the tracks are between pairs of the sequential spaces. The board also has two diametrical tracks, transverse to one another, interconnecting opposite sides of the circumferential track. The movable barriers are designed to interfit with one another such that the barriers may be stacked or interfitted end to end, to provide either extra height or extra length. As a result, one or more of the movable barriers can be positioned in the barrier spaces to provide variable height and length deterrents to moving the movable playing pieces in the circumferential track while playing the game.

Abstract: A game apparatus for playing a game in which the players simulate being waitpersons in a restaurant and in which the players take and remember lists of food dishes for later recitation and confirmation as to accuracy includes a board having a playing surface divided into segments, each segment assigned to a different player, each segment having table spaces marked thereon corresponding to tables in a restaurant. A set of table cards corresponding to each of the table spaces is provided and a plurality of order sheets for marking down food dishes being ordered is also provided. The order sheets are of a size smaller than the table cards so that they can be covered from view by the table cards during play of the game. A plurality of markers is provided, one marker associated with each player. The markers are moved around the playing surface to predetermined spaces marked on the playing surface.

Abstract: The game contains a board with multiple spaces on which a concert platform playing piece moves for each player from a start box to a final stage. Each space contains instructions which may include selecting a rescue or challenge card. The rescue cards provide a means for escaping precarious predicaments and the challenge cards may ask questions which if answered correctly provides a bonus and if answered incorrectly a monetary penalty. A pair of dice determines the number of spaces moved during each player's turn. Each player can obtain band members to be inserted on their playing piece. Such band members are worth $50,000 each at the conclusion of the game when each player arrives at the final stage. The player who accumulates the most money is declared the winner.

Abstract: A game kit is provided with movable playing pieces, movable barriers, and a game board having a circumferential track. The track includes pluralities of sequential spaces to receive the movable pieces, as a player moves them around said track, and barrier spaces running across the width of the tracks to receive the movable barriers. The barrier spaces on the tracks are between pairs of the sequential spaces. The board also has two diamentrical tracks, transverse to one another, interconnecting opposite sides of the circumferential track. The movable barriers are designed to interfit with one another such that the barriers may be stacked or interfitted end to end, to provide either extra height or extra length. As a result, one or more of the movable barriers can be positioned in the barrier spaces to provide variable height and length deterrents to moving the movable playing pieces in the circumferential track while playing the game.

Abstract: A method of playing a transportation industry game includes the following steps: There is provided a playing surface with a plurality of adjacent areas forming a first continuous pathway around the surface, a distinguishable marker for each player, a common money supply source, money and stock for each player. Each player in a repeating sequence activates a random number selector and advances the player's marker along the first pathway the number of areas specified by the number selector to stop on a particular area. The legend on the area is read and the action specified is performed. When the legend corresponds to a miniature drive or commodity carrier unit the particular unit is selected and is assembled with a previously selected miniature unit disposed adjacent to a second continuous pathway surrounding the first pathway. When the legend corresponds to that of a particular stack of cards the top card is selected therefrom and the action specified is performed.

Abstract: A market investment game includes a board providing a peripheral path containing directions on play of the game, a separate, segmented track used in determining the duration of the game, and a central spinner. Both the board and the spinner are divided into different investment category areas with the board areas indicating the number of spots available for investment and the spinner areas having alternately rising and falling angling graph lines providing both buy and sell prices for each type of investment. Each player is provided with a predetermined number of markers that are allocated by the player between movers on the path, up to a certain maximum number, and units of investment. Cards provide additional play directions including penalties that are exacted when a player is "audited" by an opponent unless the player has previously opted to pay a lesser penalty.

Abstract: A gameboard apparatus picturing an advanced, economic, technological civilization throughout the solar system and beyond, a path of spaceships containing many contingency circumstances interspersed between man-made, unpurchaseable property containing many contingency circumstance, and eleven major types of purchaseable man-made properties containing many contingency circumstances. The indicia on color-coded leases describes the internal, external, vertical and horizontal development of real estate in over thirty ways, four decks of cards, Speed of Light Years Utility Service Card and Speed of Light Years Ticket Tokens color coded to work in conjunction with the path of spaceships which are path of the continuous open route with a starting point from Earth, the entire game being described by a set of rules.

Abstract: A board game is described which simulates the acquiring of employment in various jobs, the receiving of paychecks, the paying of bills, and the receiving or paying of benefit checks associated with the status of being employed or unemployed. Players move their playing pieces along the game board path according to the roll of dice. According to the rules, a player can acquire employment by landing on a company space, rolling the dice and receiving the appropriate job credit card. Certain other spaces on the path have instructions for paying bills, receiving Welfare and Unemployment benefit checks, and paying Welfare and Unemployment benefit checks. A timing piece moves around the circumference of the board with each roll of the players' dice. Each circumnavigation of the board by the timing piece results in a payday. When payday occurs, employed players received paychecks corresponding to the jobs they currently hold.

Abstract: A travel board game includes a generally rectangular game board having a movement path indicated by more than one hundred twenty contiguous sequential spaces. A first group of question spaces are designated by indicia on the movement path and a corresponding first group of question cards bear questions and associated answers corresponding to the first group of question spaces. A second group of spaces on the movement path bear indicia designating special question spaces and a second group of special question cards bear questions and answers corresponding to the special question spaces which have a higher degree of difficulty than the first group of question cards. One of the spaces on the game board is designated as a random movement space and every tenth space in the movement path is numbered, beginning at twenty and ending at one hundred twenty.