Educational board game and method of playing

Abstract

An entertaining and educational board game is disclosed which requires players to answer questions 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 arranged into categories 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 and includes a playing board 50, a playing course 46 of interconnecting squares 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, a plurality of question and answer cards 52, a plurality of movement cards 54, and a plurality of playing pieces 48. The players take turns in their attempts to traverse the playing board 50 answering questions 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 printed on question cards 52 correctly. The particular question category 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 selected by each player as a result of his/her playing piece 48 landing on a respective playing space 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 corresponding to the question category. It is the intent of each of the participants in the game to be the first player to reach a specific END space 24 located within the playing course 46 and to correctly answer the question or questions from the category 26, 28, 30, 32, 34 indicated on the END space 24.

1 ) An educational foreign studies board game for play by a plurality of people, the educational and entertaining board game comprising: 
 (a) a game board having a playing surface divided into a plurality of sections, each section comprising a subject category,    (b) a plurality of question and answer cards, each said question and answer card having a question and answer from each of said subject categories,    (c) a plurality of playing pieces for marking each player's forward or backward movement on said playing surface,    (d) a plurality of movement indicators for directing player's forward or backward progress on said playing surface.    
   
   
       2 ) The educational foreign studies board game of  claim 1  wherein said game board is a sheet of stiff and flexible material and said question and answer cards have an indicia for each said subject category corresponding to an indicia on said game board.  
   
   
       3 ) A method for playing a game, said method comprising the steps of: 
 (a) placing said playing pieces on said playing surface, said playing surface having a plurality of interconnecting playing spaces, and a plurality of individual indicia are displayed in a plurality of said playing spaces; moving said game pieces along said playing spaces according to the indicia appearing on said movement indicators and according to correctly answering questions from said question and answer cards which are to be drawn and answered as each player takes a turn; and    (b) requiring a player to successfully perform at least one action from a group of actions comprising translating, defining, conjugating, and answering said individual questions from said question and answer cards, said action being determined by said indicia from said playing space where said player's playing piece landed for said player to be entitled to advance said player's playing piece on said playing surface.    
   
   
       4 ) The game method of  claim 3  wherein said subject categories pertain to a plurality of predetermined aspects of foreign studies.  
   
   
       5 ) The game method of  claim 3  further comprising the step of: 
 (a) including a plurality of movement spaces on the rows that offer said players an opportunity to catch up to said other player's game progression whereby increasing said player's chances of winning.