FR2493164A1 - Board game simulating presidential election - has board showing map of france with track going round edges of regions, ballot boxes and pieces representing percentages of vote - Google Patents

Abstract

The board game simulates presidential elections and shows a map of France divided into regions. Each of these are delimited at its periphery by a track that has juxtaposed squares of different colours on which pieces are moved, according to the number shown on a die. Sets of cards are placed in each region and these are taken when certain squares are landed on. Cards marked 'radio', 'television' and 'region' are given to each player and each player also has flags, pieces representing 6 per cent of the vote and a ballot box.

Description

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BOARD GAME
The present invention relates to a board game which can be played by 2 to 6 players, individually or in a team, and the subject of which is a presidential election taking place in all of the French regions; this election is done in two rounds, except in the case of an absolute majority in the first round.

The winner is that of the players, who will have acquired the greatest number of regions at the end of the game.

A certain number of board games have as their subject elections, presidential or legislative, but all leave a large part to chance. Thus the French patent N02 076 320 describes a game comprising a course of numbered boxes whose direction is imposed, the result obtained depending on the box and the indication of the two dice; moreover the results being indicated in terms of the number of votes, the mark of the results is tedious and the visualization of the state of the game in progress difficult.

French patent N 2 414 344 describes a game intended to conquer means of information and voting places (factory. Etc.) to which is added financial competition using dummy money making the understanding of the game quite difficult.

The present invention relates to a game for children and adults, overcoming these drawbacks by allowing a certain freedom of course and allowing rapid and continuous visualization of the progress of the game in progress.

This game includes:
- a support on which is drawn a map representing France divided into six regions, each of them being surrounded by a route delimiting them, and a route representing the overseas territories,
- elements of indication: flags, tokens, pawns, specific to each player and distinguished by their color,
- seven sets of "survey sheets", one for each region,
- maps "region", radio "," TV ", having a very particular role.

The invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings by way of example and in which
FIG. 1 is a view of the game support of the device according to the invention,
- Figures 2A to 2D represent the flags, pawns, ballot boxes and tokens used by each player,
- Figures 3A to 3D represent the survey, radio, TV, and region maps.

Figure 1 shows the game board 2 representing a map of France divided into six regions and a seventh region representing the Overseas Territories. Each region is delimited by a route marked with boxes of different colors, white (5) green (6) and gray (7) and includes inside a space reserved for survey sheets t8). The triangular boxes (3) common to two or three regions, called "Crossroads", serve as a starting point and allow during a route the change of region at the whim of each player, and this without stopping.

The direction of travel is that indicated by the floats (4).

In this non-limiting example, the number of route boxes has been fixed as follows - North region: 26 boxes (11 white, 8 green, 7 gray) - West region: 32 boxes (13 white, 9 green, 10 gray) - South-West region: 26 boxes (11 white, 8 green, 7 gray) - East region: 24 boxes (9 white, 8 green, 7 gray) - Center region: 26 boxes (10 white, 9 green, 7 gray) - South-East region: 24 huts (8 white, 9 green, 7 gray) - Overseas Territites: 2O huts (9 white, 5 green, 6grey)
The crossroads are at the meeting points of the regions
North and West, Center, West and South-West regions, North, Center and East regions, East, Center and South-East regions.

In the regions of the metropolis certain cities 8 have been placed and correspond to a square.

The principle and the rule of play will now be described.

Before starting the game, the survey cards are placed, face down, in the corresponding regions and each player receives a token (10) or character, the flags (11) and the pawns (13) representing a percentage of votes equal to 5, of the same color. Each player is also allocated a "radio" card (15), a "TV" card (16), a "region" card (17) given at random, the secret of which he can keep until the end of the game. second turn.

The first round takes place only on the Metropolis.

The player who obtained the best result on the die roll plays first, the others following each other clockwise. The candidates having placed their token (or character) at the crossroads of their choice, the game begins, the advancement of the pawns being determined by means of a die.

bi a candidate arrives on a green box or on a crossroads, he does not mark anything. if it is a white box, it marks 5% and places a pawn 5% of its color in the center of the region in which it is located. If the stop box is gray, he takes a survey card from the stack in the region where he is located and replaces it below the stack after having necessarily followed the instructions therein. It is obvious that in the same region the total number of votes must not exceed zoo%. A region is won by a candidate when he has 55% of the vote in this region, the candidate then places a flag of his color in the center of the region. To be able to win a region it is imperative to have at least 10% of the voices in all other regions. As soon as in a doggie region the votes are allocated without there being a winner, this is put on a ballot and an urn (12) is placed until the end of the first round. The first round is finished when all the regions are either won or in ballottas
The second round only concerns regions on waivers.

In each region there should only be two candidates left, those having the highest percentage of votes in the region considered.

From these two candidates, 10% of the vote is removed from the result of the first round before the second round, which is done with the votes acquired in the first round minus 10%.

The winner is the candidate who has won the greatest number of regions. In the event of a tie in the second round, the players decide on the Overseas Territories (1) according to the same principle.

It should be noted that exceptionally the regions for which all the votes have been allocated remain accessible to candidates wishing to acquire the minimum of 10 there to obtain a victory in another region.

The role of the "radio", "TV" and "region" cards is particular and revives the interest of the game: the "radio" and "TV" cards have the same attributions, the first being able to be used in the first round and the second at the second. They allow candidates who want it and at the time they want to do a full tonr of the region where they are playing alone and without interruption and in this case the sheets requiring a change of direction have no effect.

when a cancidat wins the region corresponding to his card, the value of this region is doubled.

Claims (1)

HEVENDICATIONS J) device intended for a Game having as a principle the presidential electiona in 2 turns, characterized in that it includes a game board representing the wandering map, divided into a certain number of regions, each of them being delimited brought to its periphery by a circuit comprising a set of juxtaposed boxes of different colors, on which a pawn can be moved according to the results of an element such as a die. 20) Device according to claim 1 characterized in that qu1il  has a number of decks of cards equal to the number of r-  regions, called "survey sheets", specific to each  region, affecting the way the game works.  )) Device according to claim 1 characterized in that it  contains cards for each player: card  "radio" "TV" record "region" with a particular role  defined in the rules of the game.  4) uispositif according to claim i characterized in that it  has indications such as flags and  tokens of corresponding color, urns, used to  indicate the progress of the game at any time during the game  In progress.