Card and board map game

• US 4,029,321 A
• Filed: 04/26/1976
• Issued: 06/14/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles G. Lang Jr
• Original Assignee: Charles G. Lang Jr
• Inventors: Lang, Charles G. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Strappello, Harry G.
• Application Number:
  US05/679,901
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: 273/135 AB, 273/135 AC, 273/134 AC, 273/131 BB, 273/130 G, 273/134 C, 273/152.6, 273/135 R, 273/152.41
• US Class Current: 273/236
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/04 Card games combined with other games
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2003/0436 Flags
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0402 for learning languages
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0434 Geographical games travelling A63F3/00088

Abstract

The game utilizes a board containing a map of the world divided radially into a series of zones. The cards used each contain the name of a nation and the flag of a different nation. Each player is assigned zones of play, and during his turn places face up and plays any card in his hand as to which he can identify on the map a country in his zone of play which corresponds to the name of a nation or flag of nation on the card. A pin is placed on the board and the portion of the card played covered to indicate that the play has been made. Each player can play the other portion of a card already played if the nation represented is in his zone of play. The card deck also contains cards which, when played, change the assigned zones of play.

Claims

1. A skill and chance influenced game comprising:

a game board containing indicia representing a map defining a large number of different political subdivisions and divided into a multiplicity of zones, there being associated with such zones indicia which correlate each zone only with a plurality of nonajacent other zones so as to provide to each player a plurality of recognizable assigned zones for his play;

a card deck containing cards divided into a plurality of sections, one section containing a type of indicia associated with a first political subdivision shown on the board and a second section containing a second type of indicia associated with a second political subdivision differing from the first shown on the board;

whereby in playing said game, a player attempts to correctly identify the position on the map of the political subdivision in his zone of play associated with any indicia on cards assigned to him and after which any second player can attempt to correctly identify the position on the map of the political subdivision in the second player'"'"'s zone of play represented by the second indicia on the card.

2. A skill and chance influenced game comprising:

a game board containing indicia representing a map defining a large number of different political subdivisions and divided into a multiplicity of zones, there being associated with such zones indicia which correlate each zone only with a plurality of nonadjacent other zones so as to provide to each player a plurality of recognizable assigned zones for his play;

a card deck containing cards divided into a plurality of sections, one section containing a type of indicia associated with a first political subdivision shown on the board and a second section containing a second type of indicia associated with a second political subdivision differing from the first shown on the board, said deck of cards also containing a second type of card having indicia corresponding to the indicia coordinating the zones of the board;

whereby in playing said game, a player attempts to correctly identify the position on the map of the political subdivision in his zone of play associated with any indicia on cards assigned to him and after which any second player can attempt to correctly identify the position on the map of the political subdivision in the second player'"'"'s zone of play represented by the second indicia on the card; and

whereby any player having access to a card of the second type of card can through its use interchange the zone assigned to him with the zone assigned to another player.

3. A skill and chance influenced game comprising:

a game board containing indicia representing a map definig a large number of different political subdivisions and divided into a multiplicity of zones, there being associated with such zones indicia which correlate each zone only with a plurality of nonadjacent other zones so as to provide to each player a plurality of recognizable assigned zones for his play;

a card deck containing cards divided into a plurality of sections, one section containing a type of indicia associated with a first political subdivision shown on the board and a second section containing a second type of indicia associated with a second political subdivision differing from the first shown on the board, said deck of cards also containing a second type of card having indicia corresponding to the indicia coordinating the zones of the board;

markers of a plurality of types, the number of types at least being as great as the number of different sections of said cards and coded to correlate thereto so as to be used to indicate each play successfully completed and, by reference to their type, to calculate the score; and

an index for consultation for determining correct and incorrect plays;

whereby in playing said game, a player attempts to correctly identify the position on the map, by placement of the markers, of the political subdivision in his zone of play associated with any indicia on cards assigned to him and after which any second player can attempt to correctly identify the position on the map by placement of the markers of the political subdivision in the second player'"'"'s zone of play represented by the second indicia on the card; and

whereby any player having access to a card of the second type of card can through its use interchange the zone assigned to him with the zone assigned to another player.