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Board game apparatus
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Inventors: Barlow, Gordon A.;
Assignee: Marvin Glass & Associates (Chicago, IL)
Primary Examiner: Lowe; Delbert B.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Coffee and Sweeney
A board game apparatus based on a theme of food item sales, where the object is to become the best sales person determined on the basis of the largest amount of sales. The game generally includes a gameboard having a playing surface thereon, a playing piece for each player of the game, a track defining a playing piece path of travel on the playing surface, and a chance device for determining the advancement of the playing pieces along the track. The board game apparatus includes a set of menu playing cards, each having indicia thereon representative of a plurality of food items, such as hamburgers, fries, or the like, which may be ordered, and a set of food item cards carrying indicia representative of one of the food items on the menu cards which may be used to fill an order as required by one of the menu cards. The track has a plurality of stations including menu card stations having indicia thereon permitting a player of the game to select a card from the set of menu cards should his playing piece land on that station. The players of the game attempt to accumulate cards from the set of food item cards including all of the items ordered by one of the menu cards as rapidly as possible to achieve a match. The player who first accumulates such a set of food item cards matching the corresponding items on a menu card is awarded a number of sales determined by rolling a die. The board game apparatus includes a device for determining which of the players of the game is first to perform a match. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION An object of the present invention is to provide a new and entertaining board game using a plurality of sets of cards wherein a sub-set of cards from one set of cards matches items on one of the cards from the other set of cards.
The matching and accumulating of the sub-set requires dexterity and quick recognition on the part of the players of the game.
Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.
These and other objects of the invention are accomplished in one embodiment currently contemplated which provides for a gameboard having a playing surface thereon, a plurality of playing pieces, at least one for each player of the game, a plurality of stations on the playing board to define a playing piece path of travel, and a chance device for determining the advancement of the playing pieces along the track.
In the preferred embodiment, there also are provided a set of menu cards and a set of food item cards, whereby a sub-set of the set of food item cards can define a match of the menu on one of the cards from the set of menu cards.
A timing device is provided to determine which one of the players of the game is first to compile a matching set of food item cards, and a chance device is provided to determine the number of sales awarded to a particular player and for determining how many stations a particular playing piece is to be advanced along the path of travel.
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