GB1195891A - Board Game Apparatus. - Google Patents

Abstract

1,195,891. Board game. A. L. C. BROCK and M. P. BROCK. 13 June, 1968 [16 March, 1967], No. 12468/67. Heading A6H. A game apparatus comprises a game board acting as a playing field having a plurality of marked spaces constituting a path extending about the board, said path providing a continuous track for the purpose of continuity of play, said path having a number of spaces equal to the number of days in a year with said spaces having indicia thereon so that the spaces consecutively represent the days of each month and consecutively represent the mouths of each year, the path defined by said spaces further being divided into twelve sectors with said welve sectors representing the twelve divisions of the zodiac, said twelve sectors each bearing indicia or marks thereon designating the same as one of the zodiac divisions, a plurality of distinguishable playing counters or tokens, for example marked with signs of the zodiac, one for each player, token money, a plurality of prorperty tokens, for example houses, flats, cars, shares and boats, adapted to be acquired or exchanged 'by players during the course of play, a plurality of cards bearing instructions to the players, and a random selection scoring device. In the preferred form the board is circular and the track is in the shape of a twelve-pointed star.