Abstract: A board game wherein players, in turn, roll dice to determine which company is in play. That player then has the option to buy stock in that company. When a player owns enough stock to be declared chairman of the board, he or she takes posession of the chairman of the board card for that company. Now, in addition to earning dividends on stock held, the player holding the chairman of the board card also earns a quarterly salary and, as chairman of the board, is qualified to take the company to the next level of play thereby increasing the value of the stock, the quarterly dividends, the chairman of the board salary and the quarterly earnings of the company. Whenever another player owns more stock in a company than the current chairman of the board, that player takes posession of the chairman of the board card and is said to have taken over the company, thus, in the course of the game a company may change hands many times.

Abstract: A board game consists of a hexagonal playing board 1 (divided into six playing areas, each area designated for one player, and having a central hexagonal area 2. Each playing area is subdivided into a plurality of unit areas 3 radiating from the central area. Each playing area having the same number of unit areas. Each unit area 3 bears a representation of the name or trademark of one of a set of companies and each playing area having the same set of companies. Players use imitation money to buy blocks representing shares which are dealt with in accordance with a plurality of randomly distributed playing cards each equating to a rise or fall in share prices. The blocks bought by the players are placed on the unit areas of the player's corresponding playing areas indicating which companies the players have bought stock in and the number of shares.

Abstract: A property dealing game that is played in two phases requires the players to acquire properties without always actually knowing the intrinsic value of the property. Cards are provided which, in combination with one or more properties, make the property worth more than its intrinsic value to a player holding one or more particular cards. The intrinsic value of the property is determined by the amount of money inserted into a closed property box during the course of play. In the initial phase, players proceed around peripheral pathway spaces on a board. However, in the second, less structured phase, the winner is determined as a result of deals made among the players without moving around the board. Additional cards are provided for affecting the holding of opposing players and influencing the bidding play in the acquisition of properties.

Abstract: The preferred embodiment of this invention features a trading game in which some or all of the activities, features and events related to a stock exchange or the like, may be simulated for the enjoyment of 2 or more players. The game consists of 5 sessions and 3 steps in each session and it is played on a simple game board characterized by providing a distinct trading symbol in each of the playing spaces therein, for the players to select at least one trading symbol per turn to conduct simulated trading transactions. The value of the simulated investments represented therein are subject to change during the game and at game-end, the player accumulating the most play money over his/her start up funds, wins the game. This invention also provides a method of continuing playing, thereby linking together the 5 sessions game with a plurality of succeeding completed 5 sessions games. The game closes after every 5 sessions game and re-opens to run continuously over an undetermined period of time.

Abstract: The present invention entails a game, game board, and game apparatus that relates to world travel and airline ownership. Forming a part of the game is a game board having a world map formed thereon with a series of different airline routes extending across the map. The object of the game is to travel from one location to another and at the same time to purchase ownership of various airlines which produces income by other players utilizing that airline as they travel from one location to another.

Abstract: A business board game in which players attempt to win the game by either purchasing a controlling share of stock of a particular industry or by purchasing a sufficient amount of stock in each industry so as to block any other player from gaining control of an industry; as opposed to merely amassing assets or forcing other players out of the game. The game further includes a variety of cards which effect the profits and losses of the various players owning stocks. Also, the game provides bankruptcy proceedings which enable a player to continue the game and still win.

Abstract: A card reader reads encoded game cards and supplies the information read to a logic system such as a microprocessor. With such information the logic system causes changes in the current state of the game. A financial asset or commercial market game employs the card reader and encoded game cards plus a display for indicating current prices of the financial assets and, a game board having a plurality of squares by which players acquire information prior to that of other players or gain or forfeit sums of money. Optionally, a video display or television set interface may be used for the display of said prices. A music identification game employs the card reader and another set of encoded game cards and plays portions of music compositions encoded on the cards. A player limits the amount of the portion of the composition played through control circuitry connected to the card reader.

Abstract: A method of playing a board game is operative with a game board having a plurality of locations defining a predetermined path of progression thereon, a plurality of Connection cards representing predetermined political connections, a plurality of Payoff cards designating predetermined illegal payoffs, a plurality of game pieces and a plurality of game currency bills. A portion of the locations on the game board are various possessory real-estate locations which can be owned by game players, and preferably another portion of the locations are Connection locations which require game players to randomly select Connection cards. A portion of the real-estate locations are developable locations which can be developed by game players through the use of game currency, political connections and/or illegal payoffs.

Abstract: A relatively simple, easy to play oil exploration game includes a rectangular parallelepipedic casing with a bottom drawer in one end thereof for carrying the game pieces. A horizontal bottom wall extends between the sides and ends of the casing defining a cover for the drawer. A plurality of partitions or panels are removably mounted in the open top of the casing. The top surface of the uppermost panel defines a playing surface. Each panel has a plurality of spaced apart, vertically aligned, circular openings defining oil wells. Irregularly shaped obstacles defining wet drilling locations or oil-containing wells are slidably mounted on the bottom wall and on the partitions beneath the uppermost panel. Simulated derricks of varying lengths are insertable into the top wall openings to simulate the drilling of wells and indicator pegs are subsequently insertable into drilled wells to indicate the presence or absence of oil.

Abstract: A game apparatus for playing a strategic game of economic and political development includes a game board organized in a map format wherein ficticious continental regions are located in an ocean region. The continental regions are sub-divided into territories, and the map is overlaid with a gridwork of lines defining a matrix of sectors. The territories are distinguishably indexed and some of the territory are indexed with markings designating native resources. A set of territory cards indentify the territories, and a set of resource cards, some of which have additional resource designations, are in one-to-one correspondence with the territory cards. Each player has a scoresheet which accumulates point factors; each scoresheet is organized as a chart of point factor category rows which relate to developmental characteristics, and the rows are formed in sequential columns corresponding to rounds of play.

Abstract: An auction game in which competitive bidding is involved for the purpose of attaining a complete collection of items defined by a collection of cards reflecting various items termed "collectibles" comprising furniture, glassware, etc., and in which a "house" card is provided with portions corresponding to the "collectibles" and upon which the "collectible" cards are stored; points being awarded for attaining a complete collection during bidding and progress of the game, with the game being supervised by a "Banker" and each participant serving as the "Banker"; the game including not only bidding, but refinancing, and strategy of maintaining one's collection and being able to purchase at or below appraised values of the "collectibles.

Abstract: A game of skill and chance which simulates the excitement and frustrations of drilling for oil. Playing pieces, representing oil drilling rigs are inserted through apertures in a top deck and, if unhindered, proceed through to a lower deck. However, a sliding middle deck is inserted between the other two decks which has only some of the holes so that a drilling rig has a real probability of being blocked and therefore results in a "dry well". Due to the symmetrical nature of the decks, the sliding middle deck may be removed from a specially provided channel, rotated along any plane and then re-inserted. This provides eight different playing configuration from a single sliding deck. Additional decks may be provided for increased variety.

Abstract: A game which simulates the trading of financial futures and its applications. The game apparatus includes a chart which provides the necessary market information for given instruments for a 20-day playing period, plus the preceding five days, with only a portion of the chart visible to the players on any given playing day. The game apparatus also includes a holder with a display window and a pair of rollers to which the ends of the chart are affixed. The chart moves past the window when one of the rollers is turned. The window is of a size that the full chart, covering the 20 day playing period and the preceding five days, will appear in it on the last playing day.

Abstract: A farm game having a price board, dice silo, money, farm record sheets, homestead plats and various commodities. The dice silo displays a chance selected die with a marked subdivision of the silo face plate, and the price board is divided into sections equal in number to the dice in the silo. The dice set a price or quote marked on the price board from which the players conduct transactions.

Abstract: The game board features a display disk situated between upper and lower layers. The display disk has a plurality of radial columns of information which are rotated under display windows in the upper layer. A removable drive hub engages the disk through a central recess in the upper layer. Channel sectors in the lower layer limit the rotation of the hub and disk. The upper and lower layers each consist of two sections hingedly joined together. Folding of the game board is accomplished by aligning the fold line on the disk with the hinge line between the two game board sections.

Abstract: A card game for a plurality of players includes two decks of cards having identical playing surfaces and visually distinguishable decorative non-playing back surfaces. The game also includes game tokens and game token containers. In setting the game up, one card from a first of the two decks is placed under each of the game token containers. As one of the players serves as a broker the cards from a second of the two decks are auctioned off, one at a time, to the highest bidder from among the players. The proceeds from the auction are placed in the containers. After all the cards from the second deck have been auctioned off the broker recalls the cards one a time using the first of the two decks which has a set of playing surfaces identical to those in the second deck. During the recall the broker opens the game to a trading session during which the players buy, sell and trade their remaining cards among themselves.

Abstract: An oil exploration game including a box-shaped game board with an upper playing surface and lower supporting surface with a rotatable cam located between such surfaces and having reremovably mounted game pieces some of which are operatively connected to the rotatable cam and further including information indicia means for recording events associated with the playing of the game.

Abstract: The trading game simulates a highly liquid market. The game employs tokens and various "Bull" and "Bear" cards to establish a settlement price for various trades. The players create the market prices for each trade during the rounds of play and record the transaction prices on tally sheets. At the completion of a game/round the transaction prices are compared with the determined settlement price to obtain the profit or loss.

Abstract: A board game method involving community development skills between parcels of land and diverse structural improvements thereon with respect to income, expense, and financing thereof during successive time periods of indefinite duration wherein selective positional association of markers of varying sizes and characters upon uniform land areas has a direct bearing on relative success or failure in boom or bust periods. The periods during which action is taken vary randomly throughout utilization of the game device, thus enabling continuous application of strategy and skill in acquiring and arranging land parcels and markers thereon to cope successfully with the unexpected end of a time period.

Abstract: A game of commodity trading having a world map with a plurality of circles and disks placed on the circles corresponding to different commodities. A command die, a quantity die, a commodity die and a market price setting spinner are used in play of the game. The players start by rolling the commodity die, picking a corresponding disk and buying a corresponding commodity until all disks are gone. The disks have letters on them and the players form words from the disks. The market price spinner is then used to set the market price for the commodities. The players then throw the three dice and follow the dice directions. The winner is the player with the most money at the end of the predetermined time.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing an auction sale game comprises letters of an alphabet and imitation money or the like, the game being played by two or more players who bid for letters auction-wise, the object being to acquire letters for word-making and the winner being the player who, on completion of the game, possesses the most money or the like which is computed by adding to any money or the like remaining in the player's possession the "value" of the word or words formed.