Board game apparatus

Abstract

A parlor game designed to acquaint the players with the functioning of the securities market. The game comprises a board, having imprinted thereon a track, game pieces including tokens movable about the track, simulated currency, simulated stock certificates and dice. The track is bordered by a color-coded frame, which includes numerical indicia and which encompasses a numerical tabulation at the center of the board, and the dice are similarly coded whereby data in the tabulation is keyed to the numerical indicia appearing on the dice. The game board has imprinted thereon numerical data in tabular form surrounding said track; the track having segments which carry indicia corresponding to the companies represented by the simulated stock certificates.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A parlor game comprising: tokens;   simulated currency;   a pair of conventional dice;   a game board, said board including a rectangular central portion sub-divided into discrete areas containing numerical indicia arranged in columns and rows, said central portion being bounded by a frame, the frame containing on each side numerical indicia corresponding to the numerical indicia on each die, the frame numerical indicia being aligned with respective rows and columns of the numerical indicia in the central portion, the game board further comprising a track for the movement of said tokens about the frame, the track being divided into segments and at least some of said track segments having indicia imprinted thereon, said track segment indicia designating objects available for purchase with said simulated currency, there being a plurality of different objects,   said objects being cards bearing indicia corresponding to the indicia imprinted on the track.   
     
     
       2. The game of claim 1 wherein the central portion of the game board is subdivided into 36 areas. 
     
     
       3. The game of claim 1 wherein said game board further comprises: information in tabular form disposed between the edge of the game board and the track, there being four tabular presentations each repeating the indicia in the central portion.   
     
     
       4. The game of claim 2 wherein said game board further comprises: information in tabular form disposed between the edge of the game board and the track, there being four tabular presentations each repeating the indicia in the central portion.   
     
     
       5. The game of claim 2 wherein the dice are diversely colored and adjacent sides of said frame are colored the same as the diversely colored dice. 
     
     
       6. The game of claim 4 wherein the dice are diversely colored and adjacent sides of said frame are colored the same as the diversely colored dice. 
     
     
       7. The game of claim 3 wherein the dice are diversely colored and adjacent sides of said frame are colored the same as the diversely colored dice. 
     
     
       8. The game of claim 1 wherein the dice are diversely colored and adjacent sides of said frame are colored the same as the diversely colored dice. .Iadd. 
     
     
       9.  A parlor game adapted to be played with tokens representing the different players, and with simulated currency, said game comprising: a game board including   a first portion subdivided into discrete areas containing numerical indicia arranged in rows and columns,   a second portion subdivided into two sets of areas, the areas of one set being aligned with respective ones of the rows, and the areas of the other set with respective ones of the columns of the first portion, the areas of each set having distinctively different indicia denoting the different rows or columns with which they are aligned,   a third portion defining a track for movement of the tokens and divided into segments, at least some of the segments having indicia thereon designating objects available for purchase with the simulated currency, there being a plurality of different objects, the objects being cards bearing indicia corresponding to the indicia on the track; and   means operable by the players to select on the basis of chance specific ones of the indicia in the two sets of areas in the second portions, and to determine the movement of the tokens along the track. .Iaddend. .Iadd.10. The game of claim 9, wherein the board further comprises a plurality of additional portions, each containing the same numerical indicia arranged in rows and columns as the first portion. .Iaddend.   
     
     
        .Iadd.1.  The game of claim 9, wherein the track includes segments not designating objects available for purchase with the simulated currency. .Iaddend. .Iadd.12. The game of claim 11, wherein the last-named segments contain directions to the players referring them to information not contained on the board. .Iaddend.