Board game apparatus

Abstract

A board game apparatus is used in play as a tool to route the players to any desired information source such as a dictionary or a number of dictionaries of different levels of detail or language. The board has a number of endless playing paths (3) made up of marked spaces (8), each of which is associated with a general, word-related task. A player must perform a task as indicated by the code on the marked space upon which the playing piece rests. A set of tokens (30) have the same coding scheme and are used to register successful completion of tasks. There is also a set of auxiliary spaces (7) associated with auxiliary features of the game which are performed using a set of auxiliary cards (20). These auxiliary features are therefore provided in a modular fashion and may be omitted if desired by the players by simply ignoring the auxiliary spaces 7. The game is not limited to a particular set of tasks provided in the apparatus and the apparatus is therefore not regarded as an end in itself, but merely a tool or routing device to allow enjoyable use of knowledge sources for both education and fun.

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