US3602512A - Board game apparatus - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
- A63F3/00003—Types of board games
- A63F3/00063—Board games concerning economics or finance, e.g. trading
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
- A63F3/00003—Types of board games
- A63F3/00119—Board games concerning music, theatre, cinema, or art
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
- A63F3/00003—Types of board games
- A63F3/00006—Board games played along a linear track, e.g. game of goose, snakes and ladders, along an endless track
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- a parlor game which comprises a game board having thereon a plurality of markings representing individual museums.
- a series of cards are each marked with a pictorial representation of a famous painting as well as the particular artist, the painting's selling price, and the museum to which it belongs.
- Three tracksare provided on the game board and pawns are moved along the respective tracks in accordance with numbers appearing on rolled dice.
- the tracks are each divided into a series of sections which contain various operations which are to be performed by, the different players in response to the rolling of the dice.
- the invention is concerned with a parlor game.
- the purpose of the present invention is to create a parlor game which obviates this disadvantage.
- This parlor game is characterized by a combination of cards representing different series of pictorial works each of which carries mention of the selling price of the corresponding work, tokens of play money representing given monetary units, a game tray in which are traced compartments representing purchasing museums and which are divided into sections each corresponding to one card, zones corresponding to other potential buyers, three courses which must be followed by pawns moved by the players on the basis of the result of a throw of dice and one of which represents financial fluctuations the object of which can be pictorial works illustrated by the cards, the second of which indicates to the player to whom the card in his possession must be sold and the third being characteristic of the good or bad luck with which the player may sell.
- FIG. 1 is a view of the game tray on a reduced scale
- F lG. 3 illustrates certain play bills used for the game.
- the parlor game subject of the invention comprises 64 series cards of the type illustrated in FlGS. 2a and 2b each of which has in its central part a representation of a given painting accompanied by the name of its author (Morandi for that of FIG. 2a and Monet in the case of HG. 2b), the names of the three other painters of the same school (Delaunay, Chirico and Carra, respectively, Manet, Degas and Sisley) the name of the museum and of the series which has been ascribed to them, the indication of the dealer's price and the museum price attributed to each painting and an indication of the total price of the paintings of the same series. Under the representation of each painting, the card also mentions the title of the painting.
- the game comprises additionally twelve collector cards relating to paintings reserved exclusively to private collectors and which carry only one price indication.
- the game comprises thus a total of 78 cards but it is evident that in a modification it could have more or less.
- tokens for example of the kind shown in FIG. 3, which represent given monetary units and which are used by the players to buy the canvasses shown on the cards previously described.
- the game comprises also a game board or tray of the type shown in FIG. 1 which is constituted by a rectangular support the four corners of which have squares A, B. C and D representing museums likely to receive the paintings illustrated by the 64 series cards and each of which is divided into l6 units.
- the units of each museum are grouped in series of four as are the cards. each card having identifying indicia thereon referring to one of said series.
- museum A is intended to receive the 16 paintings of the series a to d," museum B the paintings of series e to h,” museum C those of series "i to l” and museum D the paintings of series m to p.”
- the possession of the paintings corresponding to their units is indicated in each museum A to D by the occupation of these units by tokens, chits, cardboard rectangles, etc.
- the play bills of FIG. 3 show the legal-tender value at the disposition of the players and are placed in a Bank" zone of the tray indicated by rectangles u, v, w and x.
- the game board or tray comprises compartments G and CP intended to receive the cards sold to the galleries and to the private collectors respectively.
- the sectors having the same indicia are contained within radial zones 1 to 8.
- each track has only eight sectors in the example shown, it is evident that in modifications they could have more, for example 12 or 16.
- each sector carries a corresponding inscription, examples of which are shown in FIG. la.
- the track of sectors S gives indications for the sales of the various cards (to museums, to a gallery, to private collectors). Each sector bears a description of the type below:
- Stock Exchange means the current market value of the painting, such as determined by a valuation or at an auction.
- the game also includes three pawns P1, P2 and P3 ascribed each to one of the annular tracks R, S or T which the players cause to advance alternately on these tracks by a number of sectors corresponding to the result obtained by throwing three dice each of which belongs to a given track.
- the three tracks are differently colored and the dice are colored the same color as the track to which they belong.
- the two mystery cards are placed on the tray in the zone or compartment My.
- the 76 cards representing the paintings are stacked on the compartment Mo with the marked face turned against the game tray.
- All the play bills illustrated in FIG. 3 are stacked on correspondingly valued compartments of the bank u, v, w and x.
- the compartments of the museums and those representing private collectors CP and gallery G are empty while the three pawns are lined on the starting line which is the line separating sectors 8 and 1.
- the players After agreeing on the person who will deal the cards, on the person who will be the banker and on their respective positions around the tray, the players receive cards from the dealer who deals the cards in a clockwise manner.
- the dealer will give, for example, seven cards per player if there are six or seven players, 10 cards for five or four players, 13 cards for three players or 15 cards for two players. He will then choose a card from the pack which will be placed in the gallery compartment, turned up, and will place the remainder of the pack on compartment M0, the face of each card being turned towards the tray.
- the players begin playing without money and may borrow from the bank the amounts of money they need at the start of the game and during the entire game if this is necessary. Any player borrowing money must reimburse the bank either during the course of or at the end of the game.
- each player acquires a painting either by drawing the upper card of the stack resting on compartment M0 without paying for it" or by buying at the dealer price the painting visible on compartment G.
- the player can either draw a mystery card already located in compartment My ,or sell this card if he already has it.
- the mystery card can be obtained free or by paying the bank the amount indicated on the corresponding sector.
- the pawn moving on track S gives the players the indications concerning the nature of the organizations to which the paintings must be sold. It will be recalled that these paintings can only be sold to a museum when three paintings of the same series are in the hands of one of the players and if the latter has the entire series he can obtain for this series a price double that mentioned on each card.
- the player sells a collector card of his choice among those that he has and this at the single price marked on the card and naturally bearing in mind the evolution of the Stock Exchange" factor.
- the collector cards which are sold are deposited in compartment CP and are no longer in play. If a player does not possess a collector card he does not follow the instructions given to him by track S and passes automatically to those relating to track R.
- track R indicates to each player the good or bad luck factor governing him.
- the indications of the various sectors of track R are also naturally influenced by those of the Stock Exchange on track T. It is thus that if a player must pay Fr. 150.000 to the broker and the Stock Exchange tells him double value, the player must pay Fr. 300.000.
- Track T also contains other additional operations, such as in the case of a total collapse of quotations, the player takes an additional card and must give it free as instructed.
- compartment G will be empty, but as long as the compartments museum" and the compartment "collector C?" are not completely full, some of the players still have cards in their hand. According to the instructions that these last players will receive from the game, the gallery compartment will be replenished with paintings but at a slower or more irregular rhythm since most of the cards are in the museums at this time.
- the gallery compartment will be replenished with paintings but at a slower or more irregular rhythm since most of the cards are in the museums at this time.
- the gallery compartment will be replenished with paintings but at a slower or more irregular rhythm since most of the cards are in the museums at this time.
- the gallery compartment will be replenished with paintings but at a slower or more irregular rhythm since most of the cards are in the museums at this time.
- the indications appearing on the three tracks R, S and T can make them buy back paintings or make them effect new sales.
- a player momentarily not having cards in his hand will have to submit himself to all the other indications of the three tracks R, S and T, such as a
- the game is ended when no player has cards in his hand and the winner is the one who has made the most money, that is, the one who has the largest amount when the different monetary values of his play bills shown in F IG. 3 is the largest.
- the described game not only has a recreational purpose as do already known games but additionally has an obvious educational merit since it makes it possible for the various players to learn of the works of the most famous painters, to learn their names, the span of their existence and the school to which they belong.
- An educational parlor game apparatus comprising in combination: a group of cards each having a pictorial representation thereon of a different pictorial work and wherein each of said cards has means thereof identifying it with one of several predetermined series, each of said cards having thereon an indication of the price of the work appearing thereon, play money, a game board having a series of markings thereon each representing an individual museum, each said marking being further divided into a plurality of individual units each having indicia thereon corresponding to said pictorial representation on one of said cards, three tracks on said board, movable pawns associated with each of said tracks and movable along respective ones of said tracks according to the results obtained by throwing dice, one of said tracks having indicia thereon representing market price fluctuations to which may be subject said pictorial works illustrated on said cards, the second of said tracks having indicia thereon indicating the buyer to whom cards must be sold and the third of said tracks containing indicia thereon indicating the good or bad luck with which may be effected said sales.
- each card has two pn'ce indications, one indication for the selling price of the pictorial work represented on this card to a museum and the other the selling price to other buyers,
- each card indicates the selling price of the complete series to which said card belongs.
- each card also bears the names of the painters of the pictorial works represented by other cards in this series.
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US3850434A (en) * | 1973-05-23 | 1974-11-26 | L Ockenfels | Outrageous game |
US3917274A (en) * | 1973-02-27 | 1975-11-04 | Henry Cornelius George Carey | Stamp game |
US4637614A (en) * | 1985-10-18 | 1987-01-20 | Gibbon Linda M | Collector's auction game |
US5011158A (en) * | 1990-07-16 | 1991-04-30 | Roberts Rose H | Numismatic coin game |
US6499739B1 (en) | 2000-11-20 | 2002-12-31 | Theresa A. Brown | Restaurant theme board game |
US7100918B1 (en) | 2004-08-03 | 2006-09-05 | Anita M Selsky-Quezada | Board game kit and method of using |
US20090218766A1 (en) * | 2008-03-03 | 2009-09-03 | Teter Gregory Y | Face painting game |
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US3679210A (en) * | 1970-09-28 | 1972-07-25 | Marvin Glass & Associates | Board game apparatus |
FR2633192B1 (fr) * | 1988-06-27 | 1991-04-26 | Lavigne Annette | Nouveau jeu de societe |
FR2642661B1 (fr) * | 1989-02-03 | 1991-05-31 | Elcabache Jean Claude | Jeu du type a questions et reponses multiples |
GB9905294D0 (en) * | 1999-03-08 | 1999-04-28 | Simister Martin A | A board game |
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US3917274A (en) * | 1973-02-27 | 1975-11-04 | Henry Cornelius George Carey | Stamp game |
US3850434A (en) * | 1973-05-23 | 1974-11-26 | L Ockenfels | Outrageous game |
US4637614A (en) * | 1985-10-18 | 1987-01-20 | Gibbon Linda M | Collector's auction game |
US5011158A (en) * | 1990-07-16 | 1991-04-30 | Roberts Rose H | Numismatic coin game |
US6499739B1 (en) | 2000-11-20 | 2002-12-31 | Theresa A. Brown | Restaurant theme board game |
US7100918B1 (en) | 2004-08-03 | 2006-09-05 | Anita M Selsky-Quezada | Board game kit and method of using |
US20090218766A1 (en) * | 2008-03-03 | 2009-09-03 | Teter Gregory Y | Face painting game |
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