Board game apparatus

Abstract

This invention conveys as a poverty simulator mocking situations of financial hardships. This board game apparatus herein challenges consumer's ability to refrain from debt in a game designed to keep them in debt. Players can move around the track freely or in whatever direction the Financier chooses. Players begin the game after the Financier has provided each player with a character profile card, the matching character pawn, and the starting amount for their character. Preferably, players will move around the track freely by the roll of the dice and either pay a financial penalty or receive a financial benefit when they land on certain spaces. Players have the option to choose how they want to pay expenses. Players could change character profiles during the game. Players could go to Prison or die during game play. The game will continue as long as a single player is left alive.

I claim: 
     
         39 . A board game apparatus comprising:
 a board game apparatus containing representations setting forth financial issues comparative to real life;   a rectangular board acting as a playing field having marked spaces, which includes a plurality of marked starting spaces for each character, within the shape of an ultimate infinity sign thereon to constitute a continuous path and marked areas for a prison and a graveyard;   the selection of a financier to manage some functions of said apparatus in accordance with the rules of the game;   a set of dice or the like to determine by chance the length of each playing movement of said players along said path;   a single playing piece for each player recognized as a character pawn which shall be moved around said board in accordance with the rules of said game;   a plurality of game money to pay financial penalties or collect financial benefits when said players arrive at said spaces;   a special pad used to keep track of a welfare benefit or said penalties;   a plurality of sets of chance cards containing cards effecting advantages or disadvantages wherein said cards are to be drawn by said players as determined by chance;   a plurality of special sets of character profiles which contain cards having data that shall determine the value of penalties and benefits for said players when arriving at said spaces or drawing said chance cards;   and a plurality of character profile change cards which require said players to replace the character profile set in play with a new character profile set as shall be determined by chance.   
     
     
         40 . A board game apparatus of  claim 39  further comprising:
 the board having marked spaces which includes the plurality of marked starting spaces for each character, within the shape of said ultimate infinity sign thereon to constitute a continuous path; 
 a plurality of marked starting spaces wherein said players could begin said game, permitting all players to start on separate spaces within said path; 
 a space within said ultimate infinity sign selected at random wherein all players could begin the game; 
 the set of dice to determine said players length of movements; 
 and the playing piece for each player to register said movements in a direction of the players' choice or in a direction presented at the beginning of said game. 
 
     
     
         41 . A board game apparatus of  claim 39  further comprising:
 the board acting as a playing field having areas of a prison and a graveyard along with the marked spaces within said ultimate infinity sign constituting a continuous path extending about said board; 
 said spaces having destinations of chance of impossibilities or trap house where said players could draw a card which could cause said players to go to said prison or said graveyard; 
 a prison where said players remain until the rules of said game have been met; 
 and a graveyard where said players shall remain in the event of said players death. 
 
     
     
         42 . A board game apparatus of  claim 39  further comprising the selection of a financier to initiate the structure of said game and maintain the pace by ensuring path movements and penalty payments are in accordance with the rules of said game and said financier shall use the special pad to record said welfare benefits or said penalties in the event said players refuse to pay their penalties or cannot pay their penalties in full. 
     
     
         43 . A board game apparatus of  claim 39  further comprising:
 the board having marked spaces within said ultimate infinity sign which extends about said board wherein said spaces have destinations of financial penalties or financial benefits; 
 the set of dice or the like used to determine the length of movements amongst said destinations as shall be determined by chance; 
 the set of playing pieces used by players to arrive at said destinations; 
 the plurality of game money used to pay an acquired penalty or collect a benefit when players arrive at said destinations; 
 a plurality of options on how to pay said penalty wherein said players could pay the penalty in full, in installments, pay nothing on the penalty, or use a welfare credit if said player has acquired any; 
 and the special pad is used by said financier to record said penalty in the event said players refuse to pay their penalty or cannot pay their penalty in full. 
 
     
     
         44 . A board game apparatus of  claim 39  further comprising:
 the board having marked spaces within said ultimate infinity sign forming a path extending about said board wherein said spaces have destinations of benefits, chance of impossibilities, luck of draw, trap house, or penalties; 
 the set of dice or the like used to determine the length of movements amongst said destinations as shall be determined by chance; 
 the set of character pawns containing images of characters and constituting the playing pieces used to arrive at said destinations; 
 the plurality of game money used to pay a financial penalty or collect a financial benefit when arriving at said destinations; 
 the plurality of sets of chance cards containing cards effecting advantages or disadvantages thereon concerning said chance of impossibilities, said luck of draw, and said trap house spaces; 
 a set of chance of impossibilities chance cards to be drawn from by said players arriving at said chance of impossibilities destinations, said cards having data of imposed penalties; 
 a set of luck of draw chance cards to be drawn from by said players arriving at said luck of draw destinations, said cards having data of imposed benefits; 
 and a set of trap house chance cards to be drawn from by said players by arriving at said trap house destinations, said cards having data of imposed penalties or benefits. 
 
     
     
         45 . A board game apparatus of  claim 39  further comprising:
 the plurality of special sets of character profiles each differ from the other thereon concerning the sets of starting character profiles, the sets of disaster character profiles, and the self-sufficiency character profile wherein each set has a scenario representative of social ills or social equity; 
 said special sets bearing indication as by profile title; 
 said special sets contain character profile cards each differing from the other that have demographics expressing data required to operate said game; 
 said character profile cards shall determine the value of penalties or benefits for said players when drawing said chance cards or arriving at said spaces along said path; 
 and each character profile card has a matching character pawn. 
 
     
     
         46 . A board game apparatus of  claim 39  further comprising:
 the plurality of character profile change cards effect advantages or disadvantages thereon concerning said disaster character profile sets and said self-sufficiency character profile set; 
 wherein said character profile change cards shall be drawn from said chance of impossibilities set of cards or said luck of draw set of cards when said players arrive at one of the said chance of impossibilities destinations or said luck of draw destinations; 
 and said character profile change cards indicate a change in the character profile set in play requiring the removal of said character profile set in play so that said game continues with the character profile set that corresponds to the drawn character profile change card.