Educational board game

Abstract

The present invention relates to a educational board game and in particular to an educational board game which teaches religious subject matter based upon real life situations. The board game includes a game board, a plurality of games pieces, game money, a deck of prayer cards, a deck of evangelism cards, a Bible, a timer and a spindle or dice. The game board is divided into a number of game spaces. The game spaces include three categories of real life situations. Category 1 situations require players landing on those game spaces to draw a prayer card. The prayer cards require one of the other players to pray for the current player. Category 2 game spaces require the player to draw an evangelism card. The evangelism card requires another player to encourage the current player. Category 3 game spaces allow the player to draw either a prayer or an evangelism card. The first player to reach salvation which is the end game space wins. Since all of the games spaces are based on real life situations, players are educated to seek assistance and prayer from other players for different real life situations.

We claim:  
     
         1 . A board game for educating players regarding religious subject matter based upon real life situations: 
 a game board divided into a number of game spaces wherein a plurality of the game spaces include real life situations categorized into a plurality of categories;    a plurality of prayer cards adopted to be drawn when players land on a first category of said real life situations;    a plurality of evangelism cards adopted to be drawn when players land on a second category of real life situations;    one or more game pieces;    a device for determining the number of spaces each player can move per turn; and    game money.    
     
     
         2 . The board game as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said game board includes a third category of real life situations wherein players decide whether to select an evangelism card or a prayer card when a player lands on said third category game space.  
     
     
         3 . The board game as recited in  claim 1 , wherein said board game includes one or more temptation spaces which require a first player to select another player to tempt the first player.