Sailing voyage game
OwnerThomas A. Gates, Kevin S. Younginventors
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Abstract
In a sailing game, a number of movable land masses each having a habor therein for placement upon a game board. At least two types of sailing vessels, each having different navigational abilities when moving over the game board. Wind speed and direction indicators for determining the possible movements of the vessels during each turn, wherein all vessels on the game board, and not within a harbor, must be subject to the indicators. Facility and buoy cards acquired by each player allow the player to alter the effects of the wind speed and direction indicators upon his vessel. The winner being the first individual to navigate his vessel from the home harbor to all of the other harbors and return back to the home harbor.
Claims7
A sailing game for at least two players comprising:
- a game board having a playing surface divided into a predetermined number of spaces;
- a plurality of game pieces, one of said pieces to be moved about the game board by each player, each of said pieces having distinguishing indicia thereon, said plurality of game pieces further comprising two distinguishable classes of game pieces consisting of racing game piece vessels which must travel around the shoal areas and cruising game piece vessels which may travel over shoal areas;
- a random selection means for determining direction and distance of piece movements on the board;
- a plurality of shoal areas, said shoal areas consisting of free standing shoals which may be placed anywhere on the board and harbor shoals which outline the inner surface of each harbor;
- a plurality of movable land masses adapted to be placed on the board;
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- at least one harbor designated on each of the movable land masses, boundaries of said harbors being defined so as to form a perimeter defining a plurality of spaces on the game board that are within each harbor, each of said harbors being located on a portion of the perimeter of a land mass such that the rotational orientation of a land mass changes the position of the designated harbor relative to the game board said harbors defining a general course of play to be followed by the players, each player determining a preferred sequence of harbor stops as the game piece proceeds to each harbor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.