Interactive real estate board game

Abstract

A board game that creates an entertaining playing and learning environment pertaining to investing and buying real estate. The board game comprises a playing board with spaces thereon corresponding to actions or cards with significance to the home buying or investment field, game pieces for each player to move around the board, dice to be rolled to advance game pieces along the board, currency, and various learning elements that cooperate to create an entertaining and learning environment for players and audiences.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A game for one or more players, the game comprising:
 a playing board with a top playing surface defined by a plurality of tracks, each track including a plurality of spaces numbered in a serpentine pattern;   a plurality of game pieces;   a random number generator configured to delineate where each game piece is to be moved along the spaces of a corresponding track;   a plurality of cards, each card labeled as S, I, C, B or labeled with an action, and optionally including a fact about real estate investing;   wherein each track includes a plurality of spaces depicting a house, a begin space where a player begins movement along the track, and end space where a player ends movement along the track, a plurality of spaces awarding money to a player, a plurality of spaces taking money from a player, a plurality of spaces labeled SELLER, a plurality of spaces labeled BUYER, a plurality of spaces labeled CONTRACT, and a plurality of spaces labeled INVESTOR;   wherein a player is imposed to pay a game currency when the piece of the player is located on space taking money from the player;   wherein a player is awarded a game currency when the piece of the player is located on a space awarding money to the player.   
     
     
         2 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing board is substantially rectangular or square shaped. 
     
     
         3 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing board is foldable. 
     
     
         4 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein a house is accumulated when one player obtains an S, C, B card combination or obtains an S, C, INV card combination. 
     
     
         5 . The game of  claim 1 , further comprising game currency. 
     
     
         6 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein each player has an individual track. 
     
     
         7 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing board includes 4 tracks. 
     
     
         8 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein each track includes 70 spaces. 
     
     
         9 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein the playing board has a length and width of about 5-50 inches and a thickness of about 0.1-1 inch. 
     
     
         10 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein about 5-20% of the spaces of each track comprise the word BUYER, about 5-20% of the spaces of each track comprise the word SELLER, about 5-20% of the spaces of each track comprise the word CONTRACT, about 5-20% of the spaces of each track comprise the word INVESTOR, about 5-20% of the spaces of each track comprise an image of real estate, and about 5-20% of the spaces of each track comprise an action direction. 
     
     
         11 . The game of  claim 1 , wherein one of the action cards comprises a card that negates a card combination of S-C-B or S-C-I of a competitor player. 
     
     
         12 . A method of playing the game of  claim 1 , the method comprising:
 assigning two game pieces to each player;   assigning one track to each player;   dealing six cards to each player;   awarding money to each player;   determining a playing order, wherein the first player rolls the dice to advance one of the assigned game pieces of that player a rolled number of spaces along the track;   wherein when a player lands on a SELLER space, the player is on a free space, when a player lands on a CONTRACT space, that player plays a C card if the player holds a C card, when a player lands on an INVESTOR space, that player plays an INV card if that player holds an INV card, and when a player lands on a BUYER space, that player plays a B card if that player holds a B card, and wherein a player that successfully lands on a house image space can play an S card if the player holds an S card, wherein a player creates a first spread by playing a S-C-INV combination or S-C-B combination;   wherein when a player lands on a space taking money from the player, that player must pay an amount of money noted on the space or that player loses the game;   wherein a player lands on a space awarding money, that player is given an amount of money noted on the space;   wherein each player draws one card when they roll the dice and discard one card after they move a playing piece along the track;   wherein a player that achieves two spreads wins the game;   wherein when a player receives a lost contract card, that player cancels one played S, C, INV, or B card of another player;   repeating the rolling with successive players until one player wins.   
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein when one player rolls two dice with the same number, that player rolls one die again as a bonus roll. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein each game piece must exit the track at the end of the game. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein each game piece must exit the track by rolling the exact number of spaces left to exit the track.