Oil drilling game board

An oil well drilling game comprising:

• a game board having a hollow interior and a playing surface thereabove, said playing surface having marked thereon a plurality of oil properties with each property having associated therewith oil well holes extending through said playing surface into said interior;
• a plurality of movable oil well bodies within said interior, said bodies having contact surfaces spaced from said playing surfaces different distances associated with the amount of oil for a given oil well;
• and
• oil drilling means extendable through to drill any of said holes and operable to contact any of said contact surfaces located therebeneath to indicate the amount of oil for a given oil well and wherein:
• said game board has a circumferentially extending edge portion defining a continuous playing path with said properties positioned on said circumferentially extending edge portion and grouped into different categories, said game board has a center portion surrounded by said edge portion with said oil well holes located in said center portion and grouped into separate oil field regions providing a separate region for each of said categories, said oil field regions are contiguous with spaces of the particular category associated therewith, at least one of said categories have multiple adjacent properties located on said edge portion and contiguous with one of said regions, at least one of said categories have multiple non-adjacent properties located on said edge portion and contiguous with one of said regions which extends across said center portion between opposite edge portions.