Method of playing a question and answer movie board game

• US 5,121,928 A
• Filed: 04/30/1991
• Issued: 06/16/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nadja Salerno-Sonneberg
• Original Assignee: Nadja Salerno-Sonneberg
• Inventors: Salerno-Sonneberg, Nadja
• Primary Examiner(s): Layno, Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US07/693,347
• Time in Patent Office: 413 Days
• Field of Search: 273/243, 273/248-254
• US Class Current: 273/243
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2003/00135 Board games concerning cinema or films
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00006 Board games played along a linear track, e.g. game of goose, snakes and ladders, along an endless track A63F3/00028 - A63F3/00157, A63F3/04 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00119 Board games concerning music, theatre, cinema, or art
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/18 Question-and-answer games

Abstract

A question and answer board game relating to the movies. The game includes a board having an endless path divided into a plurality of contiguous spaces, a starting space and spaces having indicia thereon corresponding to a respective movie category of Romance, Science Friction, Horror, Comedy, and Adventure. The game further includes differently identified playing pieces, each assigned to a different player and plurality of question cards, divided into different stacks. Each stack of cards corresponds to one movie category and each card has at least a quote from a movie and the title of the movie printed thereon. Using a pair of dice the players advance their playing pieces around the board from space to space, wherein a player must name the title of the movie printed on a card which corresponds to the movie category of the space to which the player is advanced, upon being read a quote from the movie. Each player receives a marker corresponding to a movie category, upon correctly identifying a predetermined number of movie titles in the respective movie category, wherein play is terminated when a player receives a marker for each of the movie categories.

Claims

1. A method of playing a board game based on entertainment performances including an actor, the board game including a board having an endless path thereon, said endless path being divided into a plurality of contiguous spaces, at least one of said spaces being a starting space and said spaces other than said starting space having indicia thereon corresponding to respective category of entertainment performances;

a plurality of differently identified playing pieces, each assigned to a different player;

a plurality of stacks of cards, each card having a quote from a performance and the title of the performance, the name of the character who recited the quote in the performance, and the name of the actor who portrayed the character in the performance printed thereon, each stack of cards corresponding to one said performance category;

random number generating means for determining advancement of said playing pieces around the board from space to space; and

a plurality of markers, each corresponding to a respective performance category, said method comprising the steps of;

(a) advancing a playing piece along a predetermined number of said spaces, as determined by said random number generating means;

(b) identifying the performance category corresponding to the space upon which said playing piece lands;

(c) picking a card from the stack corresponding to said performance category;

(d) reciting the quote from said card;

(e) requiring said player to identify the title of the performance containing said quote;

(f) permitting said player two options upon correctly identifying said performance title, wherein said first option is to identify at least one of the name of the character who recited the quote in the performance and the name of the actor who portrayed the character in the performance for a bonus point, and said second option is to continue playing piece advancement by repeating steps (a)-(f);

(g) receiving said bonus point and repeating steps (a)-(f) by said player, as determined by said random number generating means, upon correctly identifying said performance title and upon correctly identifying at least one of the name of the character who recited the quote in the performance and the name of the actor who portrayed the character in the performance;

(h) repeating steps (a)-(g) for another player if the first-mentioned player incorrectly identifies said performance title or incorrectly identifies at least one of the name of the character who recited the quote in the performance and the name of the actor who portrayed the character in the performance;

(i) supplying a marker corresponding to a performance category, to each player that correctly identifies a predetermined number of performance titles in said performance category; and

(j) terminating play when at least one player receives a marker for each of the performance categories, wherein in the event that two or more players have received a marker for each of the performance categories, a winner is the player having said marker for each of the performance categories and having accumulated the most bonus points.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said entertainment performances are movies.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein said movie categories include at least five of the following:

Romance, Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy, Adventure and Drama.

4. A method according to claim 2, wherein there are five movie categories.