Board game

Abstract

A board game is provided which involves competition between the players to achieve a particular status level, the first player to achieve the particular status level being the winner. The board has marked squares which constitute a path extending around its periphery. Status cards, Bank cards and Jet Set cards are provided, each with specific instructions and each designating status points gained or lost by the selection of the particular card. Gold Street areas, each including a group of exclusive retail stores, are provided on the board, and when a particular store in such an area is entered, the needle on a status wheel is spun which refers the player to a number in an indexed booklet which, in turn, designates the purchase to be made in the particular store. Status cars may be purchased at car dealerships within the Gold Street areas, and these may be traded in for higher status cars.

Description

Claims

1. A game board combination including: a game board having marked squares thereon constituting a path extending around the board, said path constituting a continuous course for purposes of continuity of play and simulating a street, said game board further having marked representations carrying the names of different exclusive retail establishments adjacent to the street simulated by the aforesaid path, certain of said squares designating an entry into the respective establishments, a catalog having pages identified by the names of the aforesaid exclusive establishments and having a list of service or products sold by the esetablishments on the respective pages, game pieces, dice means for determining the progression of the game pieces along the path from square to square, and a spinner for identifying the goods and services listed in said catalog on the page of the particular establishment entered by any one of said game pieces to determine the particular purchase to be made in the particular establishment by said game piece.

2. The game board combination defined in claim 1, in which portions of the path represent particularly designated areas, with representations of selected ones of the establishments being positioned adjacent to the path in the particularly designated areas.

3. The game board combination defined in claim 1, and which includes a deck of cards, each with a particular message thereon, and certain of the squares of the path having a selected symbol thereon designating that one of the cards is to be selected from the deck.

4. The game board combination defined in claim 1, and which includes a deck of Status cards, each with a particular message thereon, and certain ones of the squares of the path having a selected symbol thereon designating that one of the Status cards is to be selected from the deck.

5. The game board combination defined in claim 1, and which includes a deck of Jet Set cards, each with a particular message thereon, and certain ones of the squares of the path having a selected symbol thereon designating that one of the Jet Set cards is to be selected from the deck.

6. The game board combination defined in claim 1, and which includes a deck of Bank cards each with a particular message thereon, and certain ones of the squares of the path having a selected symbol thereon designating that one of the Bank cards is to be selected from the deck.

7. The game board combination defined in claim 1, in which certain ones of the game pieces contain the insignia of known motor cars thereon.