Space board game apparatus

A board game apparatus comprising a playing board having marked spaced defining a path,

• means associated with said spaces for identifying a value associated therewith,
• first chance means operable by the players for determining the number of spaced to be traversed,
• a plurality of pieces representing money, a plurality of said money pieces being allocated to each player before the game commences,
• means for providing penalties to a player and rewards to a player according to his position on said playing path, and
• second chance means selectively operable by the players of the game, said second chance means comprising an upstanding member defining a plurality of generally elongated vertical apertures, and means receivable within said apertures for selectively plugging and closing the bottom of at least one of said apertures and insert means receivable in said apertures and being adapted to pass through unplugged ones of said apertures,
• whereby during play a player is required to place one of said insert means into one of said apertures after at least one of said apertures has been closed by another player with said plug means, said player continuing in said game if said insert means falls completely through an unplugged one of said apertures, and said player being penalized if said insert means remains in a plugged one of the apertures.