Game having a game board and components to be used therewith

Claim 1

In a game, a game board having a central space of a given geometric configuration, an inner ring of spaces each of a given geometric configuration surrounding and contacting said central space, and a plurality of movement spaces, at least some of said spaces having barrier gaps provided therebetween, said spaces and gaps being arranged to define a plurality of elongated wavy non-linear paths made up of a series of contiguous spaces of a given geometric configuration, said paths extending outwardly from said inner ring of spaces toward an outer peripheral region of the game board, said wavy paths being situated beside each other while being distributed circumferentially around said inner ring of spaces and said wavy paths being contiguous with each other at predetermined locations so that the geometric spaces which form said paths define continuous paths extending between the outer peripheral region of the game board and said inner ring of spaces as well as continuous wavy, non-circular paths circumferentially surrounding said ring of inner spaces, said gaps being located so as to preclude the formation of radially or circularly extending paths, so that according to a given set of rules game pieces may be placed on the spaces of said wavy paths to progress therealong between the outer peripheral region of the game board and said central space thereof as well as circumferentially along the circumferential wavy paths defined by a series of contiguous portions of said wavy paths wherein at least some of said game board spaces have associated therewith different indicia means for defining a plurality of different groups of spaces, each of said groups of spaces having the same indicia means associated therewith which is different from the other indicia means and said spaces comprising a group of contiguous spaces extending circumferentially around said inner ring of spaces so as to define a plurality of mutually concentric circumferentially extending groups of contiguous spaces; a plurality of groups of cards, each of said groups of cards having indicia means corresponding to the indicia means of a respective one of said groups of spaces, whereby according to predetermined rules when a player accumulates cards whose indicia corresponds to all of said groups, such player will have access to a space of said inner ring of spaces and wherein said cards have second indicia associated therewith which identify the same as belonging to different categories which respectively correspond to the spaces of said inner ring of spaces which have indicia associated therewith corresponding to said second indicia, whereby according to predetermined rules when a player accumulates predetermined cards belonging to the same category but different groups of said spaces such a player will have access to a space of said inner ring of spaces; a plurality of personal markers, each having distinctive indicia means associated therewith corresponding to the respective game players, respectively provided for players of the game for movement along said paths and a plurality of identification markers having indicia means associated therewith which correspond to the player identifying indicia associated with said personal markers provided for each player to be situated in spaces onto which the personal marker of a given player is moved so that as the game progresses each player will take possession of some of said spaces with the possession being indicated by the identification markers of a given player; and chance means for determining the movement of a personal marker of each player.