Fitfreak - Board Game - Lessons on Fitness, in a game

Abstract

A board game and method of implementing the game comprise displaying a squared oblong rectangular game board comprising a width comprising at least ten squares. A set of player pawns or markers pieces on the game board is envisaged. The player pawns are initially arranged for beginning play by retention with the players themselves. Game play is enabled by one or more users following the standard set of rules.

Description

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The earlier specification was not submitted per the required format. It only contained Figures which were marked as specifications. The new specification submitted herein is per the requisite format. It however does not contain any new matter whatsoever.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(1) Field of the Invention

Fitfreak is based on the traditional board game model of rolling dice and moving forward the number specified on the dice. One or more embodiments of the invention generally relate to games. More particularly, the invention relates to a game based ors a board, very similar to the popular board game “Monopoly”.

(2) DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART INCLUDING INFORMATION DISCLOSED UNDER 37 CFR 1.97 AND 1.98

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BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Starting from the square marked “Start”—There are events and occurrences that occur when you land on a specific square on the board. The player moves forward the number of squares based on the dice rolled by him and the number shown thereon. These events and occurrences are explained in further detail based on the rules of the game. The core concept of the game is that you start at age Zero and move on till you reach the age of Hundred. As you move on the board, your health-related habits impact your movement on the game. The player may be moving sooner or faster depending on their health-related habits. Also based on the age, the player's health-related habits may or may not impact. Additionally, the severity of the impact depicted by penalties in the game is determined by your age. As an example, if you are smoking at age 20 it may not harm you as much as it may impact you at age 80. Essentially, bad habits make the players advance their age faster, making them exit the game faster. The player who finishes the game the last is the winner and the first is the loser. Another concept of the game is the player's ability to nullify the bad effects of bad habits by undertaking challenges or good habits. A related aspect of the game is that a player could be dead (read exits the game and loses) due to consistently extreme bad habits, all of a sudden.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURE(S)

(1) FIG. 1—Board: The board contains all the squares, illustrations, images, markings and citations that will help the players place their pins/markers and navigate on the board by moving along the squares depicted on the board.

FIG. 1A—Bottom right quadrant of FIG. 1 to provide an enhanced and clearer view to the examiner.

FIG. 1B—Bottom left quadrant of FIG. 1 to provide an enhanced and clearer view to the examiner.

FIG. 1C—Top left right quadrant of FIG. 1 to provide an enhanced and clearer view to the examiner.

FIG. 1D—Top right quadrant of FIG. 1 to provide an enhanced and clearer view to the examiner.

(2) FIG. 2—Player Pawns: The player pawns that have been used in FIG. 2 are merely illustrative. The applicant does not intend to claim patents in any way or form on the same. The player pawns have been displayed to convey that they will be used as a part of the game. Player pawns are used based on their unique color or shape to associate with the identity of an individual player.

(3) FIG. 3—Dice: The dice that have been used in FIG. 3 are merely illustrative. The applicant does not intend to claim patents in any way or form on the same. The dice have been displayed to convey that they will be used as a part of the game.

(4) FIGS. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9—Harmful Habits Cards: These cards depicted in the Figure, are to be picked up by the players of the game upon the occurrence of a certain event. The event that will prompt the players to pick up these cards have been described later on as a part of the detailed description.

(5) FIGS. 10 and 11—Stay Young Cards: These cards depicted in the Figure, are to be picked up by the players of the game upon the occurrence of a certain event. The event that will prompt the players to pick up these cards have been described later on as a part of the detailed description.

(6) FIG. 12—Frontal View of Harmful Habit and Stay Young Cards: These cards depicted in the Figure, are to be picked up by the players of the game upon the occurrence of a certain event. This figure represents the frontal generic design of the card, merely indicating whether the card is a “Harmful Habit Card” or a “Stay Young Card”.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

• • (1) The players surrounding the game board (Represented as FIG. 1) use dice (Represented as FIG. 3) and their respective player pins/pawns (Represented as FIG. 2). Each of players will take turns to roll the die (singular of dice). The player(s) that rolls 1 on the die, can place their player pins on the start square marked as 1 on FIG. 1—game board.
  • (2) Once the player pin of the player is placed on the start square, game play progresses with rolling the die in clockwise/anti-clockwise turns. As this pattern continues in moving the player pin in a clockwise direction on the game board and the player(s) lands on the start square (1 on FIG. 1 —Game Board) again, the player will add 10 years to their fictitious age during the game play. Hence, landing on the start square after one clockwise round will make a player 10 years old, after two clockwise rounds 20 years old and so on. The player must remember their fictitious age in the game at all times as the penalties for a harmful habit (as described ahead in this document) vary based on the players fictitious age in the game.
  • (3) As a general rule, landing on any square as a result of rolling 1 or 6 on the die indicates that the player does not have a positive bent with respect to the habit mentioned on the square. This negative bent towards the health habit, penalizes a player by moving forward the number of squares or rounds as specified in the Harmful Habit Cards for that particular square. This implies that a pejorative health habit advances the age of the player faster, hence leading them to finish and exit the game faster, resulting in their losing the game. The harmful habit card associated with all squares on the board penalize the player based on their fictitious age. As an example, the penalty for the same harmful health habit (not getting adequate sleep) may vary for a player with fictitious age 20 and one with fictitious age 80 in the game. This is described in adequate detail and clarity, on each harmful habit card. In other words, each square has a harmful habit card associated with it. The stack of harmful health habit cards Vis a Vis the squares is placed at 38 on FIG. 1—Game Board. All harmful habit cards related to all the squares on the game board are represented in FIGS. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
  • (4) An additional rule is that, landing on squares 5 or 15 or 23 or 33 on FIG. 1—game board, by a player as a result of rolling 1 or 6 on the die more than thrice during game play, will lead to the player having to exit the game. This rule is called as “Dead due to bad habits”.
  • (5) A player that lands on a square without a positive bent of the health habit, can counter the effect of the harmful habit by picking up a challenge card at random from the stack of “Stay Young Cards” placed at 37 on FIG. 1—Game Board. All Stay Young cards are represented in FIGS. 10 and 11.
  • (6) In all other cases, the player will merely place their player pin on the square resultant from the roll of the die, and wait for their turn to roll the die again.
  • (7) A player may land on a square as a result of a die roll (or) as a result of a moving forward the specified number of squares/round(s) as a result of picking up a harmful habit card from another square. The table below explains the relationship between the square on the board and the corresponding harmful habit card:

Square #			Penalty (Moving
on FIG.			forward squares) for
1-		Pejorative Connotation of	the Harmful Habit,
Game		the Health Habit/Harmful	specified on FIG.
Board	Corresponding Health Habit	Habit Description	and Card #
FIG. 1-	Laugh and Smile More and	Frowning and grumbling	FIG. 4-Harmful
2	having a generally positive	more and having a	Habit Cards-Card #
	attitude	generally negative	1
		attitude.
FIG. 1-	Meditate for the Mind and	Not having a practice of	FIG. 4-Harmful
3	mental peace	meditation in one's daily	Habit Cards-Card #
		life	2
FIG. 1-	Limiting Toxic Intake in	Not being mindful in	FIG. 4-Harmful
4	various forms-air, food etc.	consuming excessive	Habit Cards-Card #
		toxins	3
FIG. 1-	Having a Hygienic and Safe	Callous and unsafe	FIG. 4-Harmful
5	Sex Life	sexual practices	Habit Cards-Card #
			5
FIG. 1-	Intake of Regulated Medicinal	Unregulated intake of	FIG. 4-Harmful
6	Dosage as per one's needs	medicinal dosages	Habit Cards-Card #
			4
FIG. 1-	Maintaining Good Dental	Not maintaining proper	FIG. 4-Harmful
7	Hygiene	dental hygiene	Habit Cards-Card #
			6
FIG. 1-	Controlled Use of Electronic	Unregulated and	FIG. 5-Harmful
8	Equipment	uncontrolled use of	Habit Cards-Card #
		electronics	1
FIG. 1-	Consumption of Organic	Excessive intake of in-	FIG. 5-Harmful
9	Food	organic and GMO foods	Habit Cards-Card #
			2
FIG. 1-	Adequate Exposure to	Not receiving adequate	FIG. 5-Harmful
10	Sunlight	exposure to sunlight	Habit Cards-Card #
			3
FIG. 1-	The general practice of	Not having the practice of	FIG. 5-Harmful
11	massages for the body	receiving massages for	Habit Cards-Card #
		the board	4
FIG. 1-	Spending time in nature and	Unwillingness or inability	FIG. 5-Harmful
12	with pets	to spend time with nature	Habit Cards-Card #
		and effects	5
FIG. 1-	Observing and maintaining	A general lack of	FIG. 5-Harmful
13	good posture and performing	awareness towards	Habit Cards-Card #
	yoga to help with the same	posture and not	6
		performing yoga to
		improve the same
FIG. 1-	Awareness of one's stressors	Being completely	FIG. 8-Harmful
14		unaware of what stresses	Habit Cards-Card #
		oneself	1
FIG. 1-	Consuming alcoholic drinks	Uncontrolled intake of	FIG. 8-Harmful
15	within one's limits	alcohol	Habit Cards-Card #
			2
FIG. 1-	Including Sports as a part of	Not including any sportive	FIG. 8-Harmful
16	one's lifestyle	activity as a part of one's	Habit Cards-Card #
		lifestyle	3
FIG. 1-	Having nutritional awareness	A lack of nutritional	FIG. 6-Harmful
17		awareness	Habit Cards-Card #
			1
FIG. 1-	Including fasting as a part of	A diet that does not	FIG. 6-Harmful
18	one's fitness regime	include fasting towards	Habit Cards-Card #
		once fitness goals	2
FIG. 1-	Controlling the intake of	Uncontrolled intake of	FIG. 6-Harmful
19	caffeine	caffeine	Habit Cards-Card #
			3
FIG. 1-	Including nuts as a part of	Not consuming adequate	FIG. 6-Harmful
20	one's diet	nuts as a part of one's	Habit Cards-Card #
		diet	4
FIG. 1-	Controlling one's spice intake	Uncontrolled or excessive	FIG. 6-Harmful
21		intake of spices	Habit Cards-Card #
			5
FIG. 1-	Controlling one's bread and	Uncontrolled or excessive	FIG. 6-Harmful
22	refined flour intake	intake of bread and	Habit Cards-Card #
		refined flour	6
FIG. 1-	Including walking as a part	Not including walking as a	FIG. 7-Harmful
23	one's fitness activity	part of one's fitness	Habit Cards-Card #
		activity	1-
FIG. 1-	Regulating one's smoking	Unregulated and	FIG. 7-Harmful
24	habit	excessive smoking habit	Habit Cards-Card #
			2
FIG. 1-	Exercising and working out	Not exercising and	FIG. 7-Harmful
25	regularly	working out regularly	Habit Cards-Card #
			3
FIG. 1-	Balancing the intake of	Lack of awareness and	FIG. 7-Harmful
26	carbohydrates, fat and	imbalanced intake of	Habit Cards-Card #
	protein intake as a part of	carbohydrates fat and	4
	food and diet	protein in one's diet
FIG. 1-	Consuming generally healthy	Consuming unhealthy oils	FIG. 7-Harmful
27	oils as a part of one's diet	as a part of one's diet	Habit Cards-Card #
			5
FIG. 1-	Increasing the number of	Excessive intake of meals	FIG. 7-Harmful
28	meals made at home	not made at home	Habit Cards-Card #
			6
FIG. 1-	Consuming less soda	Excessive intake of soda	FIG. 8-Harmful
29	beverage	beverages	Habit Cards-Card #
			4
FIG. 1-	Consuming less sugar	Consuming excessive	FIG. 8-Harmful
30		sugar	Habit Cards-Card #
			5
FIG. 1-	Consuming tea's and coffee's	Excessive intake of tea's	FIG. 8-Harmful
31-	that are generally considered	and coffee's that are	Habit Cards-Card #
	healthy	considered unhealthy	6
FIG. 1-	Adequate water intake to stay	Inadequate water intake	FIG. 9-Harmful
32	hydrated	and a general state of	Habit Cards-Card #
		dehydration	1-
FIG. 1-	Sound sleep per one's	Not receiving enough	FIG. 9-Harmful
33	individual needs	sleep per one's needs	Habit Cards-Card #
			2
FIG. 1-	Consuming healthy breakfast	Consuming insufficient	FIG. 9-Harmful
34	in sufficient portion size per	breakfast portion size and	Habit Cards-Card #
	one's individual needs	having breakfast items	3
		that are generally not
		considered healthy
FIG. 1-	Following a diet suitable to	Following a diet that is	FIG. 9-Harmful
35	one's overall good health and	unsuitable to one's overall	Habit Cards-Card #
	futuristic health goals.	good health and futuristic	4
		health goals
FIG. 1-	Include and increase the	Not having sufficient fruits	FIG. 9-Harmful
36	quantity of vegetables and	and vegetables as a part	Habit Cards-Card #
	fruits in one's meal	of once daily diet	5

Claims

1. A claim is made to the title of the game currently representing a board game. The same title may be used for different purposes thereon namely an electronic version of the game, a two dimensional or 3 dimensional character associate with the same.

2. A claim is made to the concept of the game which envisages advancing the players age, faster advancing age due to bad habits, ability to reverse the fast advancing age due to good habits, sudden death of the in the event of following certain rules described above.

3. A claim is made to the terms, concept and numeric specifications of harmful habit cards and challenge cards. Harmful habit cards affiliate a player to a certain age and penalize them for a harmful health habit in the event of a certain occurrence in the game. Challenge cards can help a player mitigate the adverse effects of a harmful habit card, provided the player completes the challenge mentioned successfully.

4. A claim is made to the concept depicted on the different squares of the board pertinent to a health habit. From the player's perspective—adherence to the healthy habit depicted on the square is beneficial and advances his or her age at a regular pace and the non-adherence to the healthy habit depicted, adversely impact the players in the game.