FR2551985A1 - Strategic set of cards for teaching history - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a parlour game permitting the teaching of history. It consists of a set of cards with a historical content from which the players must read the text and which decide the possession or the loss of provinces on a map of France or of écus in the form of notes. The game according to the invention is intended particularly for teaching French history to children.

Description

 The present invention relates to a board game for children and adults in which the strategy predominates over chance, focusing on the history of the Capetian kings.

 To our knowledge, no historical eu was attractive and educational. If he was attractive, he taught nothing. If it was educational it required tedious mnemonic efforts or it called too much chance and not enough on the initiative of the player to be interesting.

 The eu according to the invention is intended to be attractive and educational.

 It mainly includes a deck of cards describing how the Capetians managed to collect 9 their crowns or lost the different French provinces.

Each player must in turn make a choice from among 5 cards he has in his possession. He must read aloud the card he selected, the players thus receiving a short history lesson.

 The players receive or lose provinces or ecus according to the indications on the casings. Each player must park his heritage by baking bankruptcy and striving to be the richest of all at the end of the game, despite the blows taken by the other players. This fight requires a strategy that makes the game attractive. No do 'is used, the chance intervening only in the distribution of the cards.

 There are 64 cards, this figure can be modified in a variant. They are illustrated. Each relates to a Capetian king and is dated. She; indicated; an action ? take from the player who selected it.

Each player receives 5 of these cards at the start, the rest constituting a stub. When a Player has executed the orders contained in the card he has chosen, he throws it and takes another one from the heel.

 In addition, each player receives @@@@@@@ five million ECU.

This money is materialized by notes of 250,000 and a million ECU, the rest of which is placed in the custody of a player called a banker.

 The players also receive colored badges which allow them to mark their Records on a map of France divided into 22 Provinces.

 If a player cannot pay his debts, he must auction his provinces up to the amount remaining to be paid. In the event that no player buys it, the bank would buy each province 500,000 ECU.

 Here is an example of a card | "In 1356 you, John II says the Good, are made Drisonnier by your English in Poitiers.

You must pay a ransom of ECU 3 million to the bank
Florentine. The potential owner of Poitou abandoned this province.

The game ends when the following card is played: "Warning! You can only play this card when there is no card left. ... On January 21, 1793, you,
Louis XVI, have your head cut off. The game is over. Each player counts his crowns over one million per province. The richest won. "
The game according to the invention is intended for teaching the history of France to children while having fun.

Claims (1)

 Board game aimed at teaching the story of France in fun characterized in that it includes a deck of cards whose text determines the possession or loss of provinces drawn on a map of France or of ecus materialized by banknotes.