Apparatus and method of playing political games

The method of organizing data and issues in game format for teaching one or more players political skills through games played by one or more players comprising the steps of:

• allocating to each player a randomly selected set of plays to constitute a game, each said play constituting a political issue and terminating in a vote on the politicial issue;
• randomly assigning an issue in a designated sector of public interest to each player for each play in the game,
• randomly assigning a predetermined political issue for voting in the assigned sector of public interest to each player for each play in the game,
• predetermining a schedule of a preferred vote for each of the assigned voting issues, and
• evaluating a player's game score by reference to said schedule.

A political parlor educational game having play pieces and accessories for presenting voting issues to players for voting thereon, comprising in combination:

• data reference means comprising at least one playing card for presenting respectively (a) a set of six player's roles, (b) a set of six public interest topics, (c) a set of six political issues for voting, and (d) a representative set of voting standards for at least part of the six political issues in each of the six public interest topics;
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• random selection means for determining a voting issue constituting a set of three distinguishable dice respectively for selecting randomly data categorized in the said three respective sets of stored data, namely (a) a player's role, (b) a sector of public interest, and (c) a political issue for the player to vote upon;
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• voting evaluation means wherein said set of voting standards further comprises at least in part voting analysis feedback means for signifying for respective player votes a rationale for particular votes on said randomly selected political issues for voting.

A political game for presenting a variety of political issues to at least one player for analysis and vote, comprising in combination:

• data register and display means for presenting respectively (a) six player's roles, (b) six sets of public interest topics, (c) six political issues for voting, and (d) a comparative set of answers for preferred votes cast by players in the respective six issues in each of the six topics;
• whereby separate random selections of a player's role together with a public interest topic and a political issue related to that public interest topic defines a play constituting one of a plurality of voting issue plays constituting a game;
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• random selection means for selecting randomly respectively one of said six roles, said six public interest topics and said issues from the data register and display means for defining each play to be terminated by registering a player's vote on the selected issue.