Airline ownership and travel game

• US 4,887,818 A
• Filed: 01/11/1988
• Issued: 12/19/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Suzanne Escott
• Original Assignee: Suzanne Escott
• Inventors: Escott, Suzanne
• Primary Examiner(s): Coven, Edward M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harrison, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US07/142,442
• Time in Patent Office: 708 Days
• Field of Search: 273/254, 273/256, 273/251, 273/252, 273/278
• US Class Current: 273/254
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00088 Board games concerning traffic or travelling trading A63F3/00063; racing A63F3/00082; teaching the highway code A63F3/0494

Abstract

The present invention entails a game, game board, and game apparatus that relates to world travel and airline ownership. Forming a part of the game is a game board having a world map formed thereon with a series of different airline routes extending across the map. The object of the game is to travel from one location to another and at the same time to purchase ownership of various airlines which produces income by other players utilizing that airline as they travel from one location to another.

Claims

1. An airline ownership and travel game comprising:

(a) a game board including a world map that shows a substantial number of countries throughout the world;

(b) a series of different airline routes formed across the world map and extending between selected locations in various depicted countries;

(c) each airline route including a segmented travel path formed on the game board with the segmented travel path for each airline including a series of incremented travel spaces;

(d) a series of airlines entities depicted on the game board along the series of different airline routes such that a number of different airline entity routes extend across the world map;

(e) a plurality of player travel tokens for movement along respective airline travel paths during the course of the game;

(f) die means for establishing movement value for the travel tokens such that for any value rolled on the die means, the player rolling such will advance his or her travel token a corresponding number of increments along a selected route;

(g) a deck of destination cards forming a part of the game with respective destination cards including the identification of locations that correspond to airports formed along the respective airline routes;

(h) a deck of chance cards forming a part of the game with the deck of chance cards including both reward and penalty cards and wherein respective players draw from the chance card deck as a consequence of arriving at selected locations along respective airline routes;

(i) a series of airline title cards forming a part of the game with respective title cards representing the title to a particular airline having an airline route passing over the game board, each airline title card having a purchase price inscribed thereon for that particular airline; and

(j) simulated money forming a part of the game and wherein respective players utilize the simulated money to purchase airlines that have routes passing over the game board and wherein respective players are penalized monetarily for landing on an airline route owned by another player.

2. The airline ownership and travel game of claim 1 wherein the destination card deck establishes both a departure location and a destination location for players during the course of playing the present game.

3. The airline ownership and travel game of claim 1 wherein the respective airline routes are formed by laterally spaced geometric symbols that define a path for each airline, and wherein each airline is represented by a particular geometric symbol.

4. The airline ownership and travel game of claim 1 wherein a series of respective airline routes converge at numerous locations on the game board and wherein at the point of each convergence there is located an airport.

5. An airline ownership, game board and game apparatus for playing the same comprising:

a game board having a substantial portion of a world map formed thereon that depicts a plurality of countries;

a series of different airline routes formed on the game board and stretching between selected locations on the map;

the airline routes defining a plurality of airline entities which serve respective routes;

each airline route including a segmented travel path representing a particular airline entity and formed by a series of spaced apart increments;

a series of travel tokens forming a part of the game apparatus of the present invention that are moved by respective players along the space increments of a selected route;

a deck of destination cards forming a part of the game apparatus with respective cards of the deck defining a selected location along the defined airline routes formed on the map and game board;

a group of airline title cards forming a part of the game and game board apparatus with each airline title card identifying a particular airline whose route appears on the game board and the purchase price for that particular airline, and wherein individual players may choose to purchase a selected airline whose route that players token lands on during the course of the game; and

simulated money forming a part of the game and game apparatus for allowing players to make financial transactions relating to the game while the game is being played.

6. The airline ownership game of claim 5 wherein the game and game apparatus further comprises a deck of chance cards with the deck of chance cards including both reward and penalty cards and wherein certain portions of selected airline routes are designated such that a player is required to draw a chance card upon reaching that designated area.