Board game with number selection device
OwnerWalter R. Crosbyinventor
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Abstract
A board game in which the board contains a map of the United States. A track extending from New York to Los Angeles is drawn across the map. Spaces along the track include instructions which apply to each player whose game piece lands on such spaces. These instructions may be to the player's advantage or disadvantage and may, for example, advance or retard the player's movement along the track. The winner must be the first player to complete the round trip from New York to Los Angeles. A novel number selection device, for determining postage and the number of spaces a player advances, comprises in part a funnelform chute with deflection rods to randomly deflect a specially marked, miniature letter into one of several numbered mail bins. The number of the bin into which the letter falls determining the selected number.
Claims9
A board game apparatus, comprising:
- (a) a board acting as a playing field and containing on one side an outline map of the United States of America,
- (b) a track winding across the map between New York and Los Angeles,
- (c) a single playing piece for each player to be used in accordance with the rules of the game in which the piece is moved along the track,
- (d) a plurality of spaces along the track containing indications of location and instructions to be followed when a player's playing piece lands on a space containing such instructions, and
- (e) a number selection device to determine the number of spaces each player moves along the track, comprising:
- (i) a funnelform chute,
- (ii) a plurality of moveable, partial barriers positioned in the chute,
- (iii) a plurality of miniature numbered mail bins positioned below the chute,
- (iv) a miniature mail bag,
- (v) a plurality of uniformly identified miniature letters, initially positioned in the miniature mail bag,
- (vi) a single miniature letter having a special identification which differs from those in subparagraph (v) above and which is positioned initially in the miniature mail bag where it is mixed with the letters of subparagraph (v) by shaking the bag, all letters in the bag then being emptied into the chute, passed randomly through the barriers, and into one of the numbered mail bins, the number of the bin into which the special letter falls determining a selected number that is typically used to indicate the number of spaces moved by a player.
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