US 10,518,166 B1Granted

Board game—match

OwnerWilla Angel Chen, Shikui Kevin Chen +1inventors

InventorsWilla Angel Chen, Shikui Kevin Chen, Quanjun Ling Chen

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Abstract

In this board game, players take turns being the Chief and rating their level of agreement with prompts such as: “For $1000, I would be willing to wear the same underwear for a week without washing it.” The opinions are guessed using a scale from 1 (“Frostbite!—Completely Disagree”) to 10 (“All Ablaze!—Completely Agree”). Before the Chief reveals his/her rating, all of the other players guess the Chief's response using secret voting tokens, and all the votes are revealed simultaneously. At the end of the round, the closest matches score victory points. With over 700 cards already written, the prompts cover an enormous range of topics from intimate to hilarious, from every-day to fantastical, from family-oriented to party-friendly. Since the point system requires collecting points of all colors in order to win, you cannot win simply by knowing one other player extremely well. In fact, based on your point balance, you may discover which of your friends you ought to get to know better! This game promises to bring family and friends closer together by sparking meaningful, fun, and intellectual conversations that will continue even after the game itself is over.

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Dependent claims

A method for playing a game, the method comprising of:

providing a plurality of prompt cards, a plurality of sets of voting chips, and a plurality of sets of victory point tokens, wherein one side of each of the prompt cards consisting of only an opinion or only a statement having no suggested answers printed thereon, and the opposite side of each of the prompt cards consisting of either a blank or a common indicia among all the prompt cards, wherein the blank or the common indicia having no association in playing the game;
providing each player participating in the game with a set of voting chips and a set of victory point tokens;
wherein each set consisting of a plurality of voting chips and victory point tokens having a common and matching color, wherein each player is assigned a commonly colored set of voting chips and victory points tokens, and that each set of voting chips and victory tokens having a color different from the other sets of voting chips and victory tokens, wherein each different player is assigned a differently colored set of voting chips and victory points tokens, and wherein each voting chip having a number indicating an opinion on a numeric scale from 1 to 10;
alternating between each of the players drawing a prompt card from a plurality of prompt cards, wherein each prompt card having a unique statement different from the other prompt cards;
wherein the player drawing the prompt card plays one of their assigned numeric voting chips based on his/her opinion of agreeing with or disagreeing with the statement on the drawn prompt card, with “1” being that the player drawing the card completely disagrees with the statement and “10” being that he or she absolutely and wholeheartedly agrees with the statement, the numeric answer on the played voting chip being hidden from the other players, and all other players play one of their assigned numeric voting chips, also hidden from view of the other players, attempting to match the numeric answer on the voting chip played by the player drawing the prompt card;
revealing the numeric answer on each of the hidden voting chips after all players have played the voting chips wherein the player drawing the prompt card awards other players victory point tokens of his/her own color and wherein the number of victory point tokens awarded depends on how closely the numeric answer of each player's voting chip matching the numeric answer of the player drawing the prompt card;
winning the game by a player who is the first one to be awarded a threshold number of victory point tokens of each of all participating players' colors in the game.

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A board or table game comprising:

a plurality of prompt cards, a plurality of sets of voting chips, and a plurality of sets of victory point tokens;
wherein each set of voting chips and victory point tokens having a common and matching color, and that each set of voting chips and victory tokens having a color different from the other sets of voting chips and victory tokens;
wherein each prompt card consisting of only an opinion or only a statement and having no suggested answers are printed thereon, the opposite side of each of the prompt cards consisting of either a blank or a common indicia among all the prompt cards, wherein the blank or the common indicia having no association in playing the game;
Wherein each player participating in the game is assigned a commonly colored set of voting chips and victory point tokens, and wherein each different player is assigned a differently colored set of voting chips and victory point tokens:
wherein each of the players participating in the game takes turns drawing a prompt card and wherein the player drawing the prompt card is named “Chief” and the “Chief” plays one of his/her assigned numeric voting chips based on his/her agreement or disagreement with the statement on the drawn prompt card, all other players play one of their assigned voting chips in an attempt to match the voting chip played by the “Chief”;
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wherein each voting chip indicates an opinion on a numeric scale from 1 to 10 with “1” being that the player drawing the card completely disagrees with the statement and “10” being that absolutely and wholeheartedly agrees with the statement;
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wherein the colors of the victory point tokens are different for different players and wherein players are awarded with different number of victory point tokens by comparing other players' voting answers with that of the Chief;
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wherein a player wins the game by being the first one to be awarded a threshold number of victory point tokens of each color of all participating players' colored victory point tokens in the game.

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