Couples interactive relationship question and answer board game
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InventorBarbara Elaine Jenkins
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Paired playing pieces move on steps along a path of a playing area through sections representing stages in a couple relationship in response to matching couple answers on writing surfaces in response to questions on cards from a beginning step through the stages to a winning step. Two individual pieces of each paired playing piece may be separated with one of the individual pieces placed in the dog house area for a mismatch to a question card bearing a dog house insignia. Timed tasks on get out of the dog house cards when performed successfully enable a player's piece to be removed from the dog house and reconnected with the other couple members playing piece to form the paired playing piece.
A couples interactive relationship game played by couples against other couples, the game comprising:
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Games not otherwise provided for: question-and-answer games
Question-and-answer games: guessing games
Card, board, or roulette games
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1. Field of the Invention
These and other details of my invention will be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which are furnished only by way of illustration and not in limitation of the invention, and in which drawings:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of the playing board of the present invention;
FIG. 2A is a plan view of the four different types of question cards used by a couple whose player piece is positioned in the Golden Stage of play on the playing board of FIG. 1;
In FIGS. 1-4, a couples interactive relationship game is played by couples against other couples on a playing area 20 with paired playing pieces 40A and 40B moved on steps 23 along a path 22 through sections representing stages 21A, 21B, and 21C in a relationship in response to matching couple answers on writing surfaces 50 written by a couple in response to questions on cards 30A-30D selected on a couples turn, each couple attempting to be the first to go from a beginning step 23A through the stages to a winning step 23F.
The playing area 20 comprising a series of sections representing a series of ordered stages, preferably a Honeymoon Stage 21A, a Reality Stage 21B, and a Golden Stage 21 C of a relationship between two members of a couple. Each of the series of sections bears a different visual appearance from the other sections, preferably labeled with the name of the stage and bearing a different color 10A, 10B, and 10C or pattern or other visual effect.
At least one path 22, 22A, and 22B is formed by a series of steps 23A-23F traversing the series of sections representing moving through the stages of a relationship involving two members of a couple from a beginning step such as Once Upon a Time 23A, representing a beginning of a relationship involving two members of a couple, through the series of sections representing at least an early stage such as the Honeymoon Stage 21A, a middle stage such as the Reality Stage 21B, and a late stage such as the Golden Stage 21C, and ending in a final winning step such as Happily Ever After 23F. The additional paths 22A and 22B shown dashed would be similar to the path 22 illustrated in solid lines and could be sufficient in number for each of the couples paired playing piece to travel a separate path from the other couples paired playing pieces.