US 4,244,577 A · Diagnostic memory skill game and method

Abstract

A diagnostic educational memory skill game and method for developing, improving, and diagnosing memory skills comprising a game board assembly and cards. The game board assembly includes a game board which has a plurality of player areas with a common area disposed therebetween and extensions of said game board. Each player area comprises a pair of rows of spaces, one row represents the recycling area while the other represents the mastered area. The cards have information printed thereon and comprise question cards, center cards, and bonus cards. When a question card is drawn, a player must answer a question relating to that question card. If his response is correct, the question card is placed in his mastered area; if incorrect, the question card is placed in his recycling area. When a center card is placed in the common area, each question asked relates to the information on both the displayed center card and the question cards drawn. If a bonus card is drawn, the player must make fresh responses for each question card in his player area, and the question cards are repositioned according to the acceptability of the responses. The object of the game is to respond acceptably to each question so that all of a player's question cards are placed in his mastered area before the teacher's question cards are placed likewise. During the game, the student players are motivated through competition with the teacher, and the teacher diagnoses student memory skill deficiencies and prescribes correction procedures.

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An educational memory skill board game apparatus for use in developing and improving memory skills comprising:

a substantially rectangular game board having a flat top playing surface comprising:
a pair of player areas disposed adjacent mutually opposite peripheral edges of said game board;
each of said player areas having a first row of rectangular spaces and a second parallel row of rectangular spaces;
and,
a common area disposed centrally upon said game board and between said player areas;
a plurality of informational cards of size and shape corresponding to each of said rectangular spaces with information printed thereon;
and,
a plurality of center cards with supplemental information printed thereon for disposing on said common area of said game board;
said supplemental information printed on said center cards correlates with and is complementary to said information printed on said informational cards.

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A method for developing memory skills in an educational game playing environment where a teacher conducts the game, which comprises the steps of:

(a) selecting for each player of the game, including the teacher, an equal number of informational cards with information to be memorized printed thereon;
(b) revealing one informational card to each player seriatim with the teacher being the last player to have a card revealed;
(c) asking a question relating to the revealed informational card to elicit a response from the player to whom the informational card is revealed before revealing the next informational card;
(d) determining the acceptability of said questioned player's response by comparing the player's response to the response the teacher considers to be correct;
(e) repeating the considered correct response;
(f) placing the revealed informational card on a space of a game board designated to be within the mastered area for said questioned player if said player's response is acceptable.
(g) placing the revealed informational card on a space of said game board designated to be within the recycling area for said questioned player if said player's response is not acceptable;
(h) if the informational card revealed is identical to an informational card already positioned within that player's recycling area or mastered area, repeating a question asked of a player, and shifting the positioned informational card according to the acceptability of the player's response, and then revealing the next informational card to the same player;
(i) repeating step (h) until the informational card revealed to the player is different than the informational cards positioned within that player's recycling area and mastered area;
(j) proceeding to reveal informational cards and ask questions of each player and place informational cards according to the acceptability of the player responses until all of the unique selected informational cards have been revealed and placed and a question for each card has been asked.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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