Fishing board game
OwnerPaul M. Otrembainventor
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Abstract
A fishing board game comprising a gameboard, fish cards, color cards, bait boards, playing cards, game pieces and a pair of dice. The gameboard comprises a circuitous grid of interconnected fishing points, a portion of which are designated by color as fishing holes where fish may be caught. A fish card identifies a player's target fish which, if caught, increases the points associated with the catch. The color cards assign a point value to a catch which varies depending upon whether the player has selected an appropriate bait on the player's bait board. The playing cards are used to catch a fish, impair an opponent or assist a player. The dice are used to determine the number of spaces which a player may move and for generating random numbers required by the game rules.
Claims12
A fishing board game comprising:
- (a) a game board having a starting area and a circuitous grid of interconnected fishing points, a portion of which fishing points are designated by color as fishing holes, said grid beginning and ending at the starting area;
- (b) a plurality of fish cards, each said fish card designating a fish, for identifying a player's target fish and enhancing points associated with that fish on color cards;
- (c) a plurality of colored color cards, each said color card having a plurality of bait designator, fish and point combinations and each said color card having a fish and point combination not associated with a bait designator;
- (d) a plurality of bait boards for assignment to players, each said bait board having a plurality of labeled grouped baits, each said bait within said grouped baits being associated with a bait designator for associating the bait with fish and point combinations on the color cards and each said bait within said grouped baits being associated with a bait selector for selecting the bait on the bait board;
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- (e) a plurality of playing cards comprising sequential fishing cards for catching a fish designated on a color card.
A fishing board game comprising:
- (a) a game board having a starting area, a circuitous grid of interconnected fishing points, a portion of which fishing points are designated by color as fishing holes, said grid beginning and ending at the starting area, a plurality of color card slots for holding color cards, a fish card slot for holding fish cards, a playing card draw slot for holding unplayed playing cards, a playing card discard slot for holding discarded playing cards and a dice bubble for containing and randomly rolling a pair of dice;
- (b) a plurality of fish cards, each said fish card designating a fish, for identifying a player's target fish and enhancing points associated with that fish on color cards;
- (c) a plurality of colored color cards, each said color card having a plurality of bait designator, fish and point combinations and each said color card having a fish and point combination not associated with a bait designator;
- (d) a plurality of bait boards for assignment to players, each said bait board having a plurality of labeled grouped baits, each said bait within said grouped baits being associated with a bait designator for associating the bait with fish and point combinations on the color cards and each said bait within said grouped baits being associated with a bait selector for selecting the bait on the bait board;
- (e) a plurality of playing cards comprising:
- (i) sequential fishing cards for catching a fish designated on a color card;
- (ii) a plurality of specialty cards comprising:
- (1) a plurality of game warden cards for impairing an opponent's ability to accumulate points;
- (2) a plurality of fishing license cards for neutralizing the game warden cards;
- (3) a plurality of bonus bait cards for permitting a player to select an additional bait on the bait board assigned to that player;
- (4) a plurality of bogus bait cards for inhibiting an opponent's ability to select baits within a bait group on the opponent's assigned bait board;
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- (iii) a plurality of snag cards for impairing an opponent's ability to catch a fish by playing the sequential fishing cards;
- (f) a plurality of game pieces for designating each player's position on the game board;
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- (g) a pair of dice enclosed within the dice bubble for determining the number of fishing points to be traversed by a player and for generating random numbers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.