US 4,733,870 A · Strategy game emphasizing economical and political development

Abstract

A game apparatus for playing a strategic game of economic and political development includes a game board organized in a map format wherein ficticious continental regions are located in an ocean region. The continental regions are sub-divided into territories, and the map is overlaid with a gridwork of lines defining a matrix of sectors. The territories are distinguishably indexed and some of the territory are indexed with markings designating native resources. A set of territory cards indentify the territories, and a set of resource cards, some of which have additional resource designations, are in one-to-one correspondence with the territory cards. Each player has a scoresheet which accumulates point factors; each scoresheet is organized as a chart of point factor category rows which relate to developmental characteristics, and the rows are formed in sequential columns corresponding to rounds of play. Some of the point factor categories are correlated to one another and to the resource designations to define limits on point factor allocations. Chance event cards affect the point factor allocations which a player makes. A masking marker is used to block some sectors according to chance cards which also control battles between adversarial players with battles being registered on a separate battle sheet. Conflict modifier cards may be used to alter battle results, and monetary units are used to represent financial transactions.

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Dependent claims

A game apparatus for use by a plurality of players in playing a game as a sequence of rounds and scored by total point factors obtained by each player, comprising:

a game board with an upper surface organized in a map format having a plurality of geographic regions separated by boundary lines into a plurality of territories indexed to be distinguishable from one another and having a gridwork on the upper surface formed by a plurality of first and second lines intersecting one another to define a matrix of sectors;
designation means for indicating that a resource characteristic is associated with some of said territories;
first chance means for allocating one of said territories to each of said players to define a home base for a respective player;
a plurality of scoresheets, there being a respective scoresheet for each respective player, each of said scoresheets organized as a chart having a plurality of rows each of which is indexed with a developmental category and adapted to receive point factor allocations obtained by the respective player, said rows having a plurality of sequential columns adapted to receive point factor allocations for each row on successive rounds of play, some of said developmental categories being correlated to said resource characteristics;
and
chance event means carrying instructions for affecting the players' point factor allocations on a respective round of play with respect to at least one of said categories.

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A game apparatus for use by a plurality of players in playing a strategic geopolitical game as a sequence of rounds and scored by accumulated point factors obtained by each player, comprising:

a game board having an upper surface organized as a geographic map including continental regions surrounded by an ocean region, each said continental region further divisioned by boundary lines into a plurality of territories labelled by distinguishing markings and at least some of said territories marked with first resource category markings indicating native resources, the upper surface including a gridwork formed by first and second lines separating said map into a matrix of sectors indicative of transportation factors;
a set of territory cards each one of which being indexed to a respective one of said territories;
a set of resource cards with at least some of said resource cards labelled with second resource category markings for designating additional native resources for respective ones of said territories, there being at least one resource card for every territory card;
a plurality of scoresheets, there being a scoresheet for each player, each scoresheet organized as a chart having rows indexed to point categories adapted to receive allocations of said point factors, each row divisioned into columns representing successive rounds to be played, said rows further being marked to correlate some of said point categories to said first and second resource category markings;
and
a set of chance event cards correlated to said point categories for influencing a player's point factor allocation during a respective round.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Strategy game emphasizing economical and political development

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Strategy game emphasizing economical and political development

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