Board Game and Method of Play

Abstract

The present device is a board game for playing a variety of pawn advancement games and comprises a playing board having a central game grid with surrounding borders of different colors. Each colored border has five areas: OUT, PLAY, YES, NO, and WINNERS. Each player is assigned to a colored border and is provided a spotted die for rolling, a numbered die for assigning, and at least one pawn. The player's border, dice, and pawns have matching colors. Each player has an objective to move their colored pawns across the game grid from the player's border to the last line of the game grid farthest away. Advancement of each pawn is determined by the rolled values of the spotted dice, the assigned values of the numbered dice, and switching of pawns. The first player moving all their pawns into their WINNERS area is declared the winner.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]Not Applicable.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT[0002]Not Applicable.NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS AND TRADE DRESS[0003]A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. This patent document may show and / or describe matter which is or may become trade dress of the owner. The copyright and trade dress owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by any one of the patent disclosures as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent files or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright and trade dress rights whatsoever.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0004]This invention relates to pawn advancement games, and more particularly to pawn advancement board games where multiple strategic techniques determine pawn advancement.DISCUSSION OF RELATED ART[0005]Pawn advancement games are well known in the art. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,523,827 issued on Feb. 25,...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

"The present device is a board game that allows for a variety of games to be played using a playing board with spaces forming a game grid. The game is played using spotted dice and numbered dice, and each player has an objective to move their pawns across the game grid. The advancement of each pawn is determined by the rolled values of the dice, the assigned values of the dice, and the switching of pawns when multiple dice roll. The invention provides more creative ways of using dice and allows players to have greater strategic choice in how the dice are assigned to the playing pieces. The technical effects of the invention are that it provides a more interesting and challenging game for players and allows for more varied strategic options."

Problems solved by technology

However, despite the development of many approaches to pawn advancement games, these approaches often have significant limits.

However, this game has a limited number of rules and can only be played by two players.

However, the variations in pawn advancement are limited to direct movement of each player's own pawns based on the value of the dice rolled.

However, this game only uses spotted dice and the advancement of the pieces is still limited to the value of the rolled dice.

However, this game teaches away from using six-sided dice with six different values and does not teach the use of a non-spotted die to affect the movement of the playing pieces.

In particular, the Patracuolia game does not teach the concept of using dice for players to assign the rolled values of spotted dice to other players.

However, players must follow the rolled results of the dice determined by chance and players do not have the option to choose how the rolled values are assigned.

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