Magic game

A board game apparatus, comprising:

• a gameboard having a playing surface thereon;
• a plurality of playing pieces;
• a plurality of stations on the gameboard defining a playing piece path of travel, including trick stations having indicia thereon representative of a magic trick that a player may attempt to perform should his playing piece land on that particular station;
• at least one magic trick device comprising a levitation trick including a base having a generally upstanding wall portion, a platform pivotally mounted to said wall portion for supporting a figure toy or the like, said platform being movable between a generally horizontal position and a canted position, and manually engageable randomly operable locking means associated with said platform to maintain the platform in a horizontal position in response to engagement of said locking means and for permitting the platform to move to its canted position in response to disengagement of said locking means;
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• means for determining how many stations a particular playing piece is to be advanced by a player along said path.

A board game apparatus, comprising:

• a gameboard having a playing surface thereon;
• a plurality of playing pieces;
• a plurality of stations on the gameboard defining a playing piece path of travel, including trick stations having indicia thereon representative of a magic trick that a player may attempt to perform should his playing piece land on that particular station;
• at least one magic trick device including a housing having a first portion and a second portion, said first and second housing portions being positionable to define a housing apparently containing a figure toy, a manually engageable randomly operable locking means for maintaining said first and second portions in said position as a unitary member when the locking means is in an engaged position and for permitting separation of said first and second portions when the locking means is in a disengaged position to perform the illusion of dividing the apparent figure toy into two parts;
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• means for determining how many stations a particular playing piece is to be advanced by a player along said path.

A board game apparatus, comprising:

• a gameboard having a playing surface thereon;
• a plurality of playing pieces;
• a plurality of stations on the gameboard defining a playing piece path of travel, including trick stations having indicia thereon representative of a magic trick that a player may attempt to perform should his playing piece land on that particular trick station;
• at least one magic trick device for performing the illusion of causing a figure toy to vanish including a base portion, a figure toy selectively positionable at a plurality of positions on said base portion, and a housing for mounting on the base portion over the figure toy, said housing including randomly engageable locking means engageable with said figure toy for carrying the figure toy upwardly with said housing when the housing is removed from the base but only after the figure toy is placed in the base portion in position to engage the locking means;
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• means for determining how many stations a particular playing piece is to be advanced by a player along said path.