Election board game with campaign promise markers

Claim 1

A political campaign game comprising: a polygonal game board having a plurality of sides and defining a play surface; indicia on said play surface defining first and second groups of spaces along the sides of the board providing a play path for the players; said first group of spaces containing indicia idicative of distinct political subdivisions and said second group of spaces containing indicia providing game instructions; one of said spaces in said second group providing a starting space from which play is commenced; a plurality of distinct play pieces to be selected and used by each player and moved along said spaces in said play path; chance means for randomly determining the number of spaces a play piece may be moved along said play path during a player's turn; a plurality of campaign promise markers including a plurality of sets of markers, one set for each player of the game; the campaign markers in each of said sets including a plurality of subsets of markers; each of said subsets within a set of campaign markers bearing different indicia representative of a different kind of campaign promise in a political campaign and containing a plurality of individual markers bearing the distinctive indicia of the subset; and a campaign promise scoring value chart including a plurality of columns, said chart including indicia associated with each of said columns respectively representing each of said different campaign promises whereby there is one column for each such kind of promise; and a plurality of rows extending transversely of said columns respectively representing said political subdivisions; the intersection of said columns and rows on the chart defining spaces containing the maximum and minimum percentage of the vote values for at least some of said campaign promises in each of said political subdivisions.