US 6,979,000 B1Granted

Racing game

OwnerAnthony Vahalainventor

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Abstract

A racing game permits two or more players to compete by taking turns incrementally moving their game pieces around a race track comprising a plurality of discrete track positions. Each track position corresponds to a game command or to a race vehicle. Landing on a game command requires the player to perform that command, which may have bonus or penalty effect, depending on the particulars of the command. Landing on a race vehicle provides the player to purchase the vehicle for a defined purchase price, unless another player already owns the vehicle. If the vehicle is owned by another player, the player that lands on that position must pay a vehicle fee to the owner. Becoming race-qualified by purchasing a complete team of race vehicles is an overriding game play goal. Race qualified players are permitted to race for game points and game money, and may engage in a series of races reminiscent of real-world racing series, such as NASCAR, INDY RACING LEAGUE, or FORMULA 1.

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Dependent claims

A racing game comprising:

a race track comprising a circuit of discrete track positions, wherein each track position corresponds to a particular race vehicle associated with a particular race team or to a particular game command, and wherein there are race vehicles for at least two race teams distributed around the race track;
a set of game tokens, each token used to represent the movement of an individual player around the race track;
game money to be used by the players in support of game play;
a race list that identifies one or more races for which players may chance at qualification;
and
a qualification spinner used to chance race qualification;
wherein an object of the game is for individual players to land on and buy the race vehicles for at least one race team and thereby become eligible to chance at qualifying for a selected race appearing on the race list, and wherein chancing qualification comprises spinning the qualification spinner;
and
wherein one of the particular game commands is a tire change penalty command, and the racing game further comprises a tire change penalty prop that is used to determine a severity of the tire change penalty, said tire change penalty prop comprising a set of model tires, each having a color-coded side, such that a player may toss the set of tires and determine the severity of the penalty based on the number of tires that land color-coded side up or side down.

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A racing game play method comprising:

providing a race track that comprises a circuit of discrete track positions, wherein each track position corresponds to a particular race vehicle associated with one of two or more race teams, or corresponding to a particular game command, and further providing two or more game tokens, each token used to represent the movement of an individual player around the race track;
allowing players to take turns incrementally advancing their game tokens around the race track, wherein any player landing on a game command is required to perform that game command, any player landing on a race vehicle is allowed to purchase that vehicle if that race vehicle is not already owned by another player, and any player landing on a race vehicle already owned by another player is required to pay a vehicle fee to that other player;
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allowing any player that purchases a complete team of vehicles and subsequently lands on one of the race vehicles in that team to chance at race qualification by paying a qualification fee, wherein successful race qualification increases the vehicle fee for one or more of the race vehicles in that race team and marks that player as a race-qualified player.

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A racing game comprising:

a simulated race track comprising a circuit of discrete track positions, wherein each track position corresponds to a particular race vehicle from one of two or more race teams, or corresponds to a particular game command;
game tokens to allow players to take turns incrementally moving around the race track;
a qualification spinner that comprises a spinner positioned within a label area, the label area being divided into a plurality of interspersed qualified and did-not-qualify segments, such that a player chances a race qualification by spinning the spinner;
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game rules to control movement of the players' game tokens around the race track, wherein any player landing on a game command is required to perform that game command, any player landing on a race vehicle is allowed to purchase that vehicle if the vehicle is not already owned by another player, and any player landing on a race vehicle already owned by another player is required to pay a vehicle fee to that other player;
and wherein any player that purchases a complete race team of race vehicles and subsequently lands on one of the race vehicles in that race team to chance at race qualification by paying a qualification fee, wherein successful race qualification increases the vehicle fee for a vehicle in that team and marks that player as a race-qualified player.

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