Method of playing an educational game

A method of playing an educational game comprising the steps of:

• providing a stack of first and second place mats stacked in an alternating pattern, said first place mats each having a game board printed thereon including a counterclockwise oriented sequence of game piece spaces, the sequence beginning with an outer start space and terminating in a center end space, the game piece spaces including penalty indicia spaces, no indicia spaces and safety card select indicia spaces, said second place mats each having a number of safety cards printed thereon, each said safety card having having a side having a point winning indicia in a corner thereof and educational information printed in the center area thereof;
• selecting a first and a second place mat from said stack;
• providing a number of player positionable game pieces;
• providing four two-sided tossing pieces, each two-sided tossing piece having a head side and a tail side;
• positioning one of the number of player positionable game pieces onto the an outer start space for each player to play;
• each player sequentially tossing the four two-sided tossing pieces onto a surface;
• each player moving a respective game piece along the sequence of game piece spaces a number of game piece spaces away from the outer start space that corresponds to the number of the four two-sided tossing pieces that land head side up;
• each player moving a respective game piece along the sequence of game piece spaces one game piece space toward the outer start space when all four two-sided tossing pieces land tail side up;
• each player scoring a number of points corresponding to the total number of point winning indicia of all of the safety cards drawn by that player;
• awarding bonus points to the player moving a respective game piece into said center end space first;
• declaring as winner after all respective game pieces have entered said center end space the player with the highest score total.