Board game involving electric utility plant operations and finance

Claim 1

A board game relating to the financial gains and losses associated with the operating of electric utility plants, said board game comprising: (a) a playing board having four side edges and a playing surface; (b) a plurality of marginally disposed playing sections arranged in alignment along each side edge of said board, at least one of said playing sections displaying a symbol indicative of a financial gain report, at least one of said playing sections displaying a symbol indicative of a financial loss report, at least one of said playing sections displaying a symbol indicative of a control board alarm, and the remaining ones of said playing sections displaying symbols indicative of various financial gains resulting from electric power generation; (c) a plurality of special playing sections arranged in a line across the playing surface of said board such that none of said special playing sections is contiguous with any said marginally disposed playing sections, each of said special playing sections displaying a different symbol indicative of a number of days down, with those symbols arranged in a numerical progression; (d) a start up playing section interposed between, and contiguous with the numerically low end of said plurality of special playing sections and at least one of said marginally disposed playing sections that are arranged along one of the side edges of said board; (e) a plurality of financial gain report cards each bearing a symbol corresponding to the symbol on said financial gain report playing sections; (f) a plurality of financial loss report cards each bearing a symbol corresponding to the symbol on said financial loss report playing sections; (g) a plurality of plant down report cards each identifying a different type of plant alarm condition and the number of days down resulting from that alarm condition; (h) a plurality of playing pieces movable on said board; (i) a first chance device mounted on said board for determining the number of said marginally disposed playing sections over which said playing pieces are movable; (j) a second chance device mounted on said board for determining if a playing piece is to be moved onto said special playing section; (k) a third chance device mounted on said board for determining the number of said special playing sections over which said playing pieces are movable; and (l) at least one financial gain and loss scorekeeping means for recording the gains and losses.