Board game relating to stress

• US 5,435,565 A
• Filed: 07/18/1994
• Issued: 07/25/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: David M. Benaderet
• Original Assignee: David M. Benaderet
• Inventors: Benaderet, David M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stoll, William E.
• Application Number:
  US08/276,669
• Time in Patent Office: 372 Days
• Field of Search: 273/242, 273/243, 273/248, 273/249
• US Class Current: 273/243
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0478 concerning life sciences, e.g. biology, ecology, nutrition, health, medicine, psychology
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/0413 Cuboid dice

Abstract

A board game relating to stress comprising a plurality of game pieces each representing a player; at least one die; a plurality of stacks of situation cards with the stacks representing categories of stressful situations, cheerful situations, and combinations thereof and with each situation card describing an action required of a player; a plurality of certificates with each certificate representing a number of years of a player'"'"'s life with certificates being accumulated and forfeited based on situations encountered; a stack of anti-stress cards with each card representing a way of avoiding a loss of certificates when encountering stressful situations requiring the forfeiture thereof; and a game board having a starting space thereon representing the initiation of a journey through life, an ending space thereon representing the completion of the journey, and a plurality of situation spaces therebetween representing stressful categories, cheerful categories, and combinations thereof with each category represented on the board keyed to a corresponding stack of situation cards of the same category.

Claims

1. A board game relating to stress for whimsically allowing players to simulate stressful situations and cheerful situations in life comprising, in combination:

six game pieces each formed in a shape of a numbered medicine bottle and each representing a player;

a first die and a second die each having a box-shape with six faces, the first die further having its faces numbered with dotted indicia from one to six, the second die further having two opposing faces with a pair of snake eyes inscribed thereon, two opposing faces with the word even inscribed thereon, and two opposing faces with the word odd inscribed thereon;

six stacks of situation cards representing six categories of stressful situations, cheerful situations, and combinations thereof, each card describing situations and corresponding actions required of a player, each card of the first stack describing Migraine Headache stressful situations, each card of the second stack describing Ulcer stressful situations, each card of the third stack describing Nervous Breakdown stressful situations, each card of the fourth stack describing It Can Go Either Way stressful situations and cheerful situations, each card of the fifth stack describing Saturday, Sunday cheerful situations, and each card of the sixth stack describing Major Holiday cheerful situations;

a plurality of certificates with each certificate representing a number of years, the certificates having denominations of ten years, five years, two years, one year and 1/2 of a year with each player initially given certificates in the amount of seventy-five years, with the certificates being accumulated based on cheerful situations and forfeited based on stressful situations encountered by a player as stated via the situation cards;

a stack of Anti-Stress cards with each card representing a way of avoiding a loss of certificates when encountering stressful situations requiring the forfeiture thereof; and

an essentially rectangular and planar game board having a starting space representing the initiation of a journey through life positioned near the periphery of the game board at a corner thereof, an ending space positioned near the center of the game board representing a non-stressful place to live upon completion of the journey, and one hundred-twenty situation spaces representing six different categories of stressful situations, cheerful situations, and combinations thereof and three classes of actions encountered by a game piece when positioned thereon through a roll of the dice, the situation spaces extended from the starting space to the ending space in a generally spiral configuration, the categories of stressful situations denoted as Migraine Headache, Ulcer, and Nervous Breakdown, the categories of cheerful situations denoted as Saturday, Sunday and Major Holiday, and the categories of stressful situations and cheerful situations denoted as It Can Go Either Way, the classes of actions denoted as Anti-Stress, Day Off, and Go Back and with each category represented on the board keyed to a corresponding stack of situation cards having the same category and the Anti-Stress class keyed to the stack of Anti-Stress cards, with 40 situation spaces representing Migraine Headache situations, 25 situation spaces representing Ulcer situations, 10 situation spaces representing Nervous Breakdown situations, 14 spaces representing Saturday, Sunday situations, 3 situation spaces representing Major Holiday situations, 15 situation spaces representing It Can Go Either Way situations, 3 situation spaces representing Anti-Stress actions, 5 situation spaces representing Day Off actions, and 5 situation spaces representing Go Back actions.

2. A board game relating to stress for whimsically allowing players to simulate stressful situations and cheerful situations in life comprising, in combination:

a plurality of game pieces each representing a player;

at least one die;

a plurality of stacks of situation cards with the stacks representing categories of stressful situations, cheerful situations, and combinations thereof and with each situation card describing an action required of a player;

a plurality of certificates with each certificate representing a number of years of a player'"'"'s life, each player initially provided a set amount of certificates, with certificates being accumulated based on cheerful situations and forfeited based on stressful situations encountered by a player;

a stack of anti-stress cards with each card representing a way of avoiding a loss of certificates when encountering stressful situations requiring the forfeiture thereof; and

a game board having a starting space thereon representing the initiation of a journey through life, an ending space thereon representing the completion of the journey, and a plurality of situation spaces therebetween representing stressful categories, cheerful categories, and combinations thereof of situations encountered when a game piece is positioned thereon with each category represented on the board keyed to a corresponding stack of situation cards with the same category.

3. The board game as set forth in claim 2 wherein a first die and a second die are included with each having a box-shape with six faces, the first die having its faces numbered with dotted indicia from one to six, the second die having two opposing faces each having a pair of snake eyes inscribed thereon, two opposing faces each having the word even inscribed thereon, and two opposing faces having the word odd inscribed thereon.

4. The board game as set forth in claim 2 wherein the stacks comprise a first stack, second stack, third stack, fourth stack, fifth stack, and sixth stack of situation cards with each card of the first stack describing a Migraine Headache stressful situation, each card of the second stack describing an Ulcer stressful situation, each card of the third stack describing a Nervous Breakdown stressful situation, each card of the fourth stack describing an It Can Go Either Way stressful situation or cheerful situation, each card of the fifth stack describing a Saturday, Sunday cheerful situation, and each card of the sixth stack describing a Major Holiday cheerful situation and with the situations spaces representing Migraine Headache situations, Ulcer situations, Nervous Breakdown situations, It Can Go Either Way situations, Saturday, Sunday situations, and Major Holiday situations.

5. The board game as set forth in claim 2 wherein the situation spaces are extended from the starting space to the ending space in a coiled configuration.

6. The board game as set forth in claim 2 further including a plurality of blank situation cards adapted to be inscribed with personalized stressful situations, cheerful situations, and combinations thereof as well as actions required of a player.