Commodities trading games of skill and chance

A board game apparatus for a commodities trading game to be played by a plurality of players, comprising:

• a plurality of playing pieces-one for each player;
• a playing board having a plurality of defined sequential spaces constituting a playing path about the outer margin of said board, to be traversed by said pieces during the playing of the game;
• means associated with the majority of said sequential spaces uniquely identifying each, respectively, with the trade of a commodity, said spaces being referred to as commodity spaces;
• a set of commodity cards, each uniquely identified to correspond with a respective one of said commodity spaces for presentation to a player transacting the trade of a commodity referred to on the commodity space on which a playing piece lands, there being an equal number of commodity cards, and commodity spaces;
• a commodity market value associated with each of said commodity cards;
• first and second means associated with said commodity spaces to divide said commodity spaces into respectively two different classes of commodity spaces, said two classes of commodity spaces being interposed with each other about the playing path, corresponding first and second other means associated with said commodity cards correspondingly dividing said commodity cards into two corresponding classes of cards, there being an equal number of spaces of each class;
• means associated with other of said sequential spaces identifying them with an identical chance card indicator, such spaces being referred to as fact spaces;
• a set of chance selection fact cards, each uniquely identified with a commodity investment fact situation, each player drawing one of said fact cards, when its playing piece lands on a fact space;
• chance determining means for indicating a number of said sequential spaces in said playing path to be traversed by that player's playing piece in one turn;
• play money for distribution to the players, whereby each player can trade in commodities by buying and selling future contracts of the commodities, options, and the actual commodities, in order to increase his initial distribution of playing money to achieve the greatest profit, and further comprising a set of chance selection speculate cards, each containing indicia an increase or decrease in the commodity market value each player optionally drawing one of said speculate cards when his playing piece lands on a commodity space and the player is not transacting the trade referred to on that commodity space.