US 4,289,313 AGranted

Management teaching game apparatus and method

OwnerRobert P. Delamontagneinventor

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Abstract

A management teaching game is employed to simulate a retail store environment in which a player must pay his opponent a certain amount of play money determined by the number of questions the opponent has correctly answered in a given category corresponding to a given player position. The game includes a gameboard having a first and a second player territory, a pair of player pieces, a pair of dice, a question booklet, a computer for indicating the correct answer to the questions posed in the question book, a score sheet for keeping cumulative totals of correct answers in each category and a predetermined amount of play money. Each player must answer questions in specific categories when his player piece resides on a position in his own territory. When a player's piece is located in a player position in his opponent's territory he must pay his opponent a certain amount of play money in proportion to the number of questions correctly answered by his opponent in the category of that particular player position. Moves of the player pieces are determined by a roll of the dice. Play is over when all the questions in all of the categories have been answered by both players. The winner is the one who obtains the greatest amount of play money. The more correct answers a player knows to questions in each of the categories the more likely it is that he will win.

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Dependent claims

A competitive management teaching game-like apparatus for teaching at least two competitive players useful information about their respective jobs comprising:

a gameboard having a first player territory representing the real life work environment of said first player, a second player territory representing the real life work environment of said second player, a path connecting said first and second player territories together and a plurality of player positions representing real life work situations located along said path, said player positions having predetermined penalty and reward values;
at least a first and second player piece;
chance means for determining the player positions of said player pieces on said path of said gameboard;
question means for posing identified questions and multiple choice answers to said identified questions concerning specific subjects related to the real life work of said players, said player positions within said first and second territories referring said first and second players to questions from said question means corresponding to different categories of subject matter, said question means posing substantially differently identified questions and answers to each player respectively;
answering means for determining the correctness of an answer to the identified question posed by said question means, said answering means comprising an electronic device preprogrammed to indicate the correctness of any one of said identified multiple choice answers to any one of said identified questions posed by said question means in such a way that both players know if a question is answered correctly, but only the player using the answering means know the content of the multiple choice answer selected;
cumulative scoring means for providing a cumulative reward corresponding to said player positions;
and,
a reward means.

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