US 6,883,803 B1Granted

Tourist game

OwnerDennis P. Barryinventor

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Abstract

A board game apparatus for educating players with respect to tourist attractions within a particular geographical region that includes a gameboard having a continuous path of areas representing particular localities within the geographical region and a set of cards having either questions concerning various tourist attractions of the localities or other instructions. Another set of cards represent rewards obtained during the course of playing the game. Each of the areas representing the localities are marked to indicate whether a locality is accessible by a conveyance such as a boat and/or by an airplane while all of the localities are accessible by a car. Each player has a single multi-token of parallelepiped shape with a side surface each having a respective representation of an automobile, a boat and an airplane that is permitted to occupy only those areas designated as being accessible by that particular conveyance and whose ends designate STOP and GO attributes.

A board game apparatus designed to acquaint players with a predetermined geographical region as represented on a map, said apparatus comprising:

a board having predefined directions thereon corresponding to directions on said map and including a series of marked areas forming a path extending about said board, each of said marked areas representing a particular locality within said region, having indicia therein identifying said locality, and being disposed on said board to correspond generally with the location of said locality on said map, selected ones of said marked areas on said board being designated as accessible only by indicated modes of transportation;
a plurality of multi-tokens, each said multi-token dedicated to a different player and being moveable for transportation along said path, wherein each said multi-token
(a) is an elongated parallelepiped comprising a body with four flat sides and two opposite ends,
(b) the surface of each of at least three of said flat sides has a respective visual representation of a different mode of transportation for use by the corresponding player, and the said flat sides permitting vertical stacking of a plurality of said tokens with each token in a stack displaying at least two flat sides and one visual representation of a mode of transportation,
(c) each of the opposite ends of said elongated parallelepiped body having a gripping wing that is within the outer periphery of said body of said object and that is spaced from said body to form a recess and that has on the outer surface of the respective gripping wing a respective visual indication of movement of the multi-token relative to said board, with one of said visual indications of a gripping wing to be placed facing a said marked area and the other facing the opposite direction to be viewed to indicate the playing status of the multi-token, each multi-token to be moveable only with respect to marked areas corresponding to localities accessible by the corresponding mode of transportation;
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means for determining the movement of each said multi-token means about said path.

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