US 5,690,336 AGranted

Educational card game

OwnerMatilda Joanne Oliverinventor

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Abstract

An educational game relates to the identification of minor political and geographical areas within a major political and geographical area. The game includes a map representing minor political and geographical areas within the major political and geographical area, a master deck containing minor political boundary cards, boundary border cards, fresh water cards within the major political and geographical area, air border cards, and quiz cards, a sub-division deck containing cards presenting facts relating to minor political and geographical areas within the major political and geographical area, a capitol deck containing capitol cards for each minor political area, and a quiz point deck, with each quiz card presenting a questions that relate to the minor political and geographical areas. The game presents various stages of difficulty and applies to states within a country or to countries within a continent.

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Dependent claims

An educational game relating to the identification of minor political and geographical areas within a major political and geographical area, including:

a master deck containing a plurality of minor boundary cards representing minor political and geographical areas within the major political and geographical area, each boundary card having indicia representing a minor political and geographical area and having indicia representing information on political and geographical areas outside and adjacent to the boundary of the minor political and geographical area represented thereon, a plurality of minor and political geographical areas having a capitol, a plurality of boundary border cards representing political and geographical areas outside the major political geographical areas which engage the border of the major political and geographical area, each boundary border card having indicia representing a political and geographical area and having indicia representing minor political and geographical areas adjacent to the boundary of the political and geographical area represented thereon, a plurality of air border cards, and a plurality quiz cards;
and
a capitol deck containing capitol cards, each capitol card consisting of the name of a minor political and geographical area within the major political and geographical area and the name of the capitol of the minor political and geographical area represented thereon;
and
a quiz point deck, with each quiz card having indicia in the form of a question that relates to a minor boundary political and geographical area of the major political and geographical area.

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An educational game relating to the identification of minor political and geographical areas within a major political and geographical area, including:

a master deck containing minor boundary cards representing minor political and geographical areas within the major political and geographical area, each minor boundary card having indicia representing a minor political and geographical area and having indicia representing information on political and geographical areas outside and adjacent to the boundary of the minor political and geographical area represented thereon, a plurality of minor and political geographical areas having a capitol, a plurality of boundary border cards representing political and geographical areas outside the major political geographical areas which engage the border of the major political and geographical area, each boundary border card having indicia representing a political and geographical area and having indicia representing minor political and geographical areas adjacent to the boundary of the political and geographical area represented thereon, a plurality of air border cards, and quiz cards each air border card containing indicia thereon to designate the same;
and a plurality of
a quiz point deck, with each quiz card having indicia in the form of a question that relates to a minor boundary political and geographical area of the major political and geographical area.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.