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US 4,052,072 AGranted
Educational world map game
OwnerPhilip E. Bealinventor
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An educational world map game adapted to be played on a pachisi-like game playing board bearing the world continental areas with countries marked off and lines of playing spaces to be traversed by playing pieces counted off in number according to the roll of dice and directed by a drawing of a card or playing piece showing the country shape in one of the continental areas. With the playing pieces being shaped as puzzle parts and each having the puzzle outline of a country, they are adapted to fit with one another and to overlie the country spaces marked off in the continental areas at the terminal ends of inwardly-extending lines of the playing spaces and these country spaces may be counted in continuation of the line space the shortest distance within the continental area to reach final country destination. The lines of spaces are arranged to provide one closed peripheral line about the board with a starting point therein and lines of playing spaces extending inwardly from the closed peripheral line at points therealong that respectively terminate in the respective continental areas. The playing piece is advanced along the lines of playing spaces and into continental areas according to the rolling of dice by the players. The game is completed with all of the countries provided for the continental areas being placed therein and the winner will be the player who has located the greater number of countries in the continental areas or scored the most points according to variations of the game.
In an educational world map game, a game board displaying a world map with the several continental outlines thereon, each of the continental outlines having the various country areas outlined and designated therein, a line of pachisi-like playing spaces extending about the periphery of the game board, a plurality of lines of pachisi-like playing spaces respectively extending inwardly at different points along said peripheral line and terminating respectively at the respective continental outlines and at a country area outlined therein, certain of said inwardly-extending lines of spaces having branch lines of spaces and intersecting one another, thereby extending the certain inwardly-extending lines of spaces to more than one continental outline, playing pieces adapted to be advanced along the pachisi-like playing spaces from a starting point in at least one of the lines of playing spaces in response to numbers as appearing from a set of dice thrown in turn by the players of the game and toward selective designated country areas of a continent and a plurality of jigsaw puzzle parts corresponding in number to at least the respective number of country areas of all the continental outlines and adapted to be fitted over the country areas when the playing pieces have arrived at the country area terminals and in jigsaw puzzle fashion with one another to finally fill up the continental outlines of the world map to conclude the game.
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