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US 7,549,639 B2Granted
Varieties of human experiences board game
OwnerBolivar Philippe Martineauinventor
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Abstract
The variety human experiences board game provides the player with real life experiences such as confrontations against other players as well with the inevitable elements of nature. The game creates a greater awareness about the complexities of modern living, and how interdependent we are with our environment.
Claims9
A board game for creating awareness of the different social classes, comprising:
- a board wherein said board comprises a centered segment, a continuous outer track, several alternative inner accesses, a plurality of card group spaces and several card's groups
- wherein said continuous outer track comprises a first path of consecutive segments connected defining playing positions of a loop, wherein each consecutive segment bears a indicia, wherein said indicia is selected from a group of instructions, levels representations comprising a image of a particular level and card groups representations comprising illustration identifying at least one of card's groups, wherein the segments bearing a level representation at the continuous outer track are spaced apart by segments, wherein each segment spacing apart bears a indicia selected from said group of instructions and card group representations;
- and the same level representation is repeated at least ones on said first path,
- wherein the segments bearing a instruction at the continuous outer track are spaced apart by segments, wherein each segment spacing apart bears a indicia selected from said group of level representation and card group representations,
- wherein said centered segment is the only segment with at least four alternative paths, bears the highest level representation and is surrounded by the continuous outer track,
- wherein each inner access comprises at least a segment bearing a level representation and said inner access extends from the centered segment toward the inner boundaries of the continues outer track connecting with at least one of the consecutive segments of said continuous outer track providing alternative paths,
- wherein the plurality of card groups spaces are located outside of the continues outer track and indicates the position of each particular card group, wherein each card group comprises several cards bearing instructions and phrases thereon, so that when a player lands on a track segment showing a card group representation said player pick a card from the card group related to that card group representation,
- a plurality of players' representations figures, wherein said figures are shaped differently identifying the level,
- a pair of dice for producing a random count to determine the movement for said figures, and
- chips of different denomination as money representation.
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