Jurisprudence -educational game
OwnerJames N. Vailinventor
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Abstract
A teaching device and game comprising a game board bearing instructions; marker pieces; dice for determining by lot the advancement and position of the marker pieces; reward indicator members representing "jurors" to be won or lost by each participant who, having been accused of a "crime", stands in the position of a criminal "defendant"; a variety of game elements or cards representing a variety of different criminal indictments, criminal defenses, and questions relating to various criminal and constitutional evidentiary situations, which, if answered correctly, gain reward indicators or "jurors" for the participant, the ultimate goal being to become the first participant to accumulate a predetermined number of "jurors" and thereby to be found "not guilty".
Claims7
An entertaining and teaching game device comprising:
- A game board having a plurality of various different discrete areas thereon which are arranged in a continuous path, said discrete areas including areas having identification thereon for cooperation with a plurality of game elements which have related identification thereon;
- A plurality of marker pieces for marking movement along said path of two or more players;
- Means for determining by lot increments of advance of marker pieces of successive players so as to position said marker pieces of said various discrete areas;
- A plurality of game elements adapted for distribution to the players which game elements each have at least two faces with one of the faces thereof having an identification thereon which is related to the identification on certain of said discrete areas on said board and the other one of said faces having information thereon which requires a response by the player according to the knowledge of the player;
- Certain of said game elements having on said other one of said faces information which requires the player to exercise his judgement according to his knowledge as to how best to respond in order to further his progress toward obtaining reward indicators;
- Certain others of said game elements having information on said other one of said faces which enables the player to respond according to his knowledge and to obtain or lose reward indicators;
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- A plurality of reward indicators which are distributable to the players in accordance with their correctness in responding to the information on said game elements and to the positioning of said markers on certain of said discrete areas.
An entertaining and teaching game device comprising:
- A game board having a plurality of various different discrete areas thereon which are arranged in a continuous path along which each player may indicate his progress by a marker, said discrete areas having identification thereon for cooperation with a plurality of game elements which have related identification thereon and the use of which may affect the players' progress along said path and the accumulation of a desired number of reward indications;
- Means for determining by lot increments of advance of markers indicating progress of the players along said path;
- A plurality of game elements adapted for distribution to the players which game elements each have a face with an identification thereon which is related to the identification on certain of said discrete areas;
- Said game elements each having on another face thereof information which requires the player to respond in a way that will affect his success or lack of success in obtaining said predetermined number of reward indications;
- Certain of said game elements having on a face thereof information requiring the player to exercise his judgment on how to proceed in order to further his progress toward obtaining the desired number of reward indications;
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- Certain of said game elements having on a face thereof information requiring the player to respond according to his knowledge so as to obtain further reward indications when his response is correct.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.