US 2020/0094129 A1Published application

New York Subway Board Game

OwnerTheodore Francis Smithinventor

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Abstract

A game which is instructive about a city's subway system, the game including a gameboard having a graphical representation of a city subway system, and disc playing pieces each of which represents a train for moving along a route drawn on the diagram, each player receiving six fares at the start of a game, the game also including a deck of instruction cards, a deck of places of interest cards and a pair of dice, the dice serving to determine the extent of the train movements, and the instruction cards giving specific favorable or unfavorable instructions. Also included is a set of tacks, each bearing indicia corresponding to indicia on one of said disc playing pieces. Additionally, included are turn pieces to remind a player of lost turns, up pieces and down pieces to remind the player of the direction of train movement along the board. The game can accommodate up to thirty players. Another version of the game provides a player-board to each player, which eliminates the need for the larger gameboard. The player-board is advantageous while playing the game in close quarters or while traveling in a vehicle. Also, another version of the game provides the game on an actual roll out map. All versions of the game are played the same way.

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Dependent claims

A subway game comprising:

a) a game board having therein a playing field which comprises a graphical representation of a subway system and including a plurality of separate subway lines at least some of which have starting and ending stations different from every other line, said subway lines having thereon a number of stations including visually distinguishable stations;
b) a plurality of tacks which can be inserted into the game board, each tack having imprinted thereon the specific designation of one of the trains of the actual subway system which travels along a specific restricted route corresponding to the to one of the subway lines;
c) a plurality of playing pieces for movement upon said game board, the number of playing pieces corresponding to the number of said tacks, each of the playing pieces having imprinted thereon a designation identical with that of a corresponding one of the tacks;
d) a game rule booklet for instructions on playing the game;
e) a pair of dice for randomly determining the number of spaces a player moves said playing piece;
f) a plurality of instruction cards to determine favorable or unfavorable progress of a player;
g) a plurality of fares for division among the players of said game;
h) a plurality of places of interest cards to provide landmark information to a player;
i) a plurality of question cards in which a player is given the opportunity to advance forward if said question correctly answered in an allotted amount of time;
j) a timer device for measuring said allotted amount of time.
k) a plurality of up pieces and a plurality of down pieces to remind a player of the direction heading along the game board;
l) a plurality of pass cards to mitigate lost fares;
and
m) a plurality of turn pieces to remind a player of the number of turns to miss before moving a playing piece.

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A subway game comprising:

a) a compact, portable player-board having therein a top surface with a plurality of layouts each of which comprises a particular subway line with starting and ending stations;
b) a plurality of tacks which can be attached to a porous player-board surface for movement upon said player-board, each tack having imprinted thereon the specific designation of one of the trains of the actual subway system which travels along a specific restricted route corresponding to the to one of the subway lines;
c) a plurality of pawns of magnetic material which can be attached to a nonporous magnetic player-board surface for movement upon said player-board, each pawn having imprinted thereon the specific designation of one of the trains of the actual subway system which travels along a specific restricted route corresponding to the to one of the subway lines;
d) a plurality of playing pieces for identifying said subway line, the number of playing pieces corresponding to the number of said tacks or pawns, each of the playing pieces having imprinted thereon a designation identical with that of a corresponding one of said tacks or pawns;
e) a game rule booklet for instructions on playing the game;
f) a pair of dice for randomly determining the number of spaces a player moves said playing piece;
g) a plurality of instruction cards to determine favorable or unfavorable progress of a player;
h) a plurality of fares for division among the players of said game;
i) a plurality of places of interest cards to provide landmark information to a player;
j) a plurality of question cards in which a player is given the opportunity to advance forward if said question correctly answered in an allotted amount of time;
k) a timer device for measuring said allotted amount of time.
l) a plurality of up pieces and a plurality of down pieces to remind a player of the direction heading along the player-board;
m) a plurality of pass cards to mitigate lost fares;
and
n) a plurality of turn pieces to remind a player of the number of turns to miss before moving a playing piece.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.