Cross country board game

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to FIG.
1, game board 10 displays the outline 12 of the continental USA with a principal route or course 14 which the bikers (players) will follow during the course of the game.
Route 14 is divided into segments or spaces 16 which represent positions for the tokens or pieces used by the players to represent their positions and movement along the course.
A spinner 18, also located on board 10, is used by the players in turn to indicate how many places 16 to move their tokens or pieces.
Along route 14 are six cities, namely, New York City, Omaha, San Francisco, New Orleans, Phoenix, and Jacksonville, representing the starting points for the bikers.
In addition, there are three motorcycle events or "meets" at Laconia, Sturgis, and Daytona, where the bikers are required to make stops during their travels over the course and to get a card for attending the meet.
It will be noted that the locations of the meets, namely, Laconia, Sturgis and Daytona are on secondary routes including dead ends, some of which are arranged to give the player some choice as to routes to follow.
Before describing in detail the remaining pieces and the rules to be followed in order to play this board game, a general description of the game follows.
Each biker starts in a different one of six cities so that the game as described can accomodate from two to six players.
The winner of the game is the first biker who makes all three required stops and gets back to home base (his starting city).
A novel aspect of this board game can be seen from board 10 where it will be noted that the stops or "meets" are located so that the biker has some choice, though limited, in a route to be followed.
Thus, a certain amount of judgement is required.
Each biker is provided with a token or a playing piece in the form of a motorcycle, such as piece 22 shown in FIG.
2, color coded to match the color of its starting city, so that each of the cities on board 10 is in a different color, with base 22a for positioning the piece upright