Political candidate campaign board game
AssigneeCampaign Headquarters, Inc.
InventorsDaniel L. Murphy, Paula N. Chavez
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Abstract
The board game of the present invention is a political candidate campaign board game, wherein the object of the game is to obtain score points in the form of votes. There are two playing surfaces and two distinctive playing pieces are assigned to each player. One playing surface is a path portion with indicia containing political questions and the second surface is a geographic portion with indicia containing electoral votes required to win a particular geographic region. The board game may further include three sets of cards: "Ad Cards", "Consultant Cards" and "Theme Cards". The set of "Ad Cards" contain "Attack Cards" and "Rebuttal Cards" to be used in conjuction with answers players may give to the indicia containing political questions on the path portion.
Claims9
A political candidate campaign board game apparatus which includes playing cards and playing pieces, for use by a plurality of game participants comprising:
- a playing board defining a first playing surface having a path portion which has a multiplicity of consecutive playing sections;
- first indicia containing campaign questions requiring a response selected from the group consisting of yes and no, by at least one of said game participants, answers to which would be favorable to a candidate's said first indicia on at least some of said consecutive playing sections;
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- a first set of playing cards to be distributed to game participants throughout play, some of which being attach cards having second indicia corresponding to the first indicia and having information in the form of a statement responding to said game participant's yes or no response.
A board game apparatus which includes playing cards and playing pieces, for use by a plurality of game participants comprising:
- a playing board defining a first playing surface having a path portion which has a multiplicity of consecutive playing sections;
- a plurality of distinctive playing pieces for moving on said path portion to represent game participants and which resemble television sets;
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- number generator means for randomly generating a number, such determining the number of playing sections on said path portion a playing piece may be moved during a game participant's turn at play;
- first indicia containing campaign questions requiring a response selected from the group consisting of yes and no by at least one of said game participants, said first indicia on at least some of said consecutive playing sections;
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- a first set of playing cards to be distributed to game participants throughout play, some of which being attack cards having second indicia corresponding to said firs indicia and having information in the form of a statement responding to said game participant's yes or no response and some of said first set of playing cards being rebuttal cards having third indicia which contain information for rebutting said second indicia contained in said attack cards.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.