Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
231 words
In an educational world map game, a game board displaying a world map with the several continental outlines thereon, each of the continental outlines having the various country areas outlined and designated therein, a line of pachisi-like playing spaces extending about the periphery of the game board, a plurality of lines of pachisi-like playing spaces respectively extending inwardly at different points along said peripheral line and terminating respectively at the respective continental outlines and at a country area outlined therein, certain of said inwardly-extending lines of spaces having branch lines of spaces and intersecting one another, thereby extending the certain inwardly-extending lines of spaces to more than one continental outline, playing pieces adapted to be advanced along the pachisi-like playing spaces from a starting point in at least one of the lines of playing spaces in response to numbers as appearing from a set of dice thrown in turn by the players of the game and toward selective designated country areas of a continent and a plurality of jigsaw puzzle parts corresponding in number to at least the respective number of country areas of all the continental outlines and adapted to be fitted over the country areas when the playing pieces have arrived at the country area terminals and in jigsaw puzzle fashion with one another to finally fill up the continental outlines of the world map to conclude the game.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
231 words
In an educational world map game, a game board displaying a world map with the several continental outlines thereon, each of the continental outlines having the various country areas outlined and designated therein, a line of pachisi-like playing spaces extending about the periphery of the game board, a plurality of lines of pachisi-like playing spaces respectively extending inwardly at different points along said peripheral line and terminating respectively at the respective continental outlines and at a country area outlined therein, certain of said inwardly-extending lines of spaces having branch lines of spaces and intersecting one another, thereby extending the certain inwardly-extending lines of spaces to more than one continental outline, playing pieces adapted to be advanced along the pachisi-like playing spaces from a starting point in at least one of the lines of playing spaces in response to numbers as appearing from a set of dice thrown in turn by the players of the game and toward selective designated country areas of a continent and a plurality of jigsaw puzzle parts corresponding in number to at least the respective number of country areas of all the continental outlines and adapted to be fitted over the country areas when the playing pieces have arrived at the country area terminals and in jigsaw puzzle fashion with one another to finally fill up the continental outlines of the world map to conclude the game.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
44 words
In an educational world map game as defined in claim 1 and said puzzle pieces of the countries being adapted to serve as playing pieces and when selected used to be moved along the pachisi-like playing spaces to the country designated by their shape.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
69 words
In an educational world map game as defined in claim 1 and a set of country selecting cards to determine the country to which the playing pieces are to be moved, said selecting cards corresponding in number at least to the number of the country areas of all of the continental outlines, each of the cards portraying the outline of the selected country and giving other data pertinent thereto.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
32 words
In an educational world map game as defined in claim 1 and said continental outlines being depressed into the surface of the game board to confine the country-shaped jigsaw puzzle pieces therein.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
49 words
In an educational world map game as defined in claim 1, certain of said country-shaped jigsaw puzzle pieces having side pockets therein, and cards bearing data pertinent to the country represented by the puzzle piece adapted to be respectively slidably fitted into the side pockets of the puzzle pieces.