Automobile board game having unique color code dice

Claim 2

A board game apparatus, comprising: a game board having a plurality of separate and distinct playing areas designated thereon, including a peripheral playing path extending around the perimeter of the board and a plurality of separate and distinct inner playing paths spaced inwardly from the peripheral playing path, each playing path being divided into a plurality of movement spaces variously representing benefit or detriment to the player, and said inner playing paths representing home bases for each player; a plurality of movement pieces for movement along the playing paths, said movement pieces being distinctively marked for each player; the movement spaces including a plurality of money spaces located on the peripheral playing path and at least one bank space located in each inner playing path, there being at least one of said money spaces located after each of the bank spaces in the direction of playing piece movement; a pair of dice, each die having distinctive marks on various faces thereof, said distinctive marks including differing numerical indicia and a second indicia different from the numerical indicia, each face of said die having said numerical indicia and said second indicia located thereon; and the arrangement of the numerical indicia and the second indicia being such that the maximum possible numerical indicia displayed when both dice display the same second indicia is equal to the number of movement spaces between said bank space and said money space located thereafter and thereby providing the only capability of moving from said bank space to said money space located thereafter in one turn.

Claim 3

A board game as in claim 1, wherein: the movement pieces are miniature cars, representing automobiles; the peripheral playing path represents a highway; and the inner playing paths represent towns.

Claim 4

A board game as in claim 2, wherein: the movement pieces and towns are color coded, there being a plurality of identically colored movement pieces for each player.

Claim 5

A board game as in claim 3, wherein: said differing numerical indicia comprises spots and the dice have different numbers of spots on the different panels thereof; and said second indicia comprises colors and the panels being of different colors, corresponding to the colors of the movement pieces and towns.

Claim 6

A board game as in claim 4, wherein: said money spaces are uniformly spaced apart and represent spaces at which a player receives money.

Claim 7

A board game as in claim 5, wherein: each said bank space is located equidistantly between two of the uniformly spaced "money" spaces on the peripheral playing path.

Claim 8

A board game as in claim 6, wherein: each die of the pair of dice has three different color panels, with opposite panels being the same color; and like color panels on one die having an even number of spots, while the same color panels on the other die have an odd number of spots.

Claim 9

A board game as in claim 1, wherein: said differing numerical indicia comprises spots and said second indicia comprises colors.

Claim 10

A board game as in claim 8, wherein: each die of the pair of dice has three different color panels, with opposite panels being the same color; and like color panels on one die having an even number of spots, while the same color panels on the other die have an odd number of spots.

Claim 11

A board game as in claim 9, wherein: the spots on each panel range in number from one to four.

Claim 12

A board game apparatus as claimed in claim 1, including: a plurality of play variation cards having indicia thereon corresponding to at least some of the movement spaces and having directions governing the detriment or benefit to be accorded a playing piece resting on a designated movement space.

Claim 13

A board game apparatus, comprising: a game board having a plurality of separate and distinct playing areas designated thereon, including a peripheral playing path extending around the perimeter of the board and a plurality of separate and distinct inner playing paths spaced inwardly from the peripheral playing path, each playing path being divided into a plurality of movement spaces variously representing benefit or detriment to the player, and said inner playing paths representing home bases for each player; a plurality of movement pieces for movement along the playing paths, said movement pieces being distinctively marked for each player; the movement spaces in each inner playing path including a number of spaces representing benefit to the player and a number of intervening spaces representing detriment to the player; a pair of dice, each die having distinctive marks on various faces thereof, said distinctive marks including differing numerical indicia and a second indicia different from the numerical indicia, each face of said die having said numerical indicia and said second indicia located thereon; and the arrangement of the numerical indicia and the second indicia being such the maximum possible numerical indicia displayed on a single die is equal to the number of movement spaces between the spaces representing benefit to the player, thereby providing the only capability of moving from one space representing benefit to the next following space representing benefit in one turn when only said one die displays the second indicia corresponding to that inner playing path.

Claim 14

A board game apparatus, comprising: a game board having a plurality of separate and distinct playing areas designated thereon, including a peripheral playing path extending around the perimeter of the board and a plurality of separate and distinct inner playing paths spaced inwardly from the peripheral playing path, each playing path being divided into a plurality of movement spaces variously representing benefit or detriment to the player, and said inner playing paths representing home bases for each player; a plurality of movement pieces for movement along the playing paths, said movement pieces being distinctively marked for each player; the movement spaces in each inner playing path including a number of spaces representing benefit to the player and a number of intervening spaces representing detriment to the player; a pair of dice, each die having distinctive marks on various faces thereof, said distinctive marks including differing numerical indicia and a second indicia different from the numerical indicia, each face of said die having said numerical indicia and said second indicia located thereon; and the arrangement of the numerical indicia and the second indicia being such the maximum possible numerical indicia displayed on a single die is equal to the number of movement spaces between the spaces representing benefit to the player, thereby providing the only capability of moving from one space representing benefit to the next following space representing benefit in one turn when only said one die displays the second indicia corresponding to that inner playing path.

Claim 15

A board game apparatus, comprising: a game board having a plurality of separate and distinct playing areas designated thereon, including a peripheral playing path extending around the perimeter of the board and a plurality of separate and distinct inner playing paths spaced inwardly from the peripheral playing path, each playing path being divided into a plurality of movement spaces variously representing benefit or detriment to the player, and said inner playing paths representing home bases for each player; a plurality of movement pieces for movement along the playing paths, said movement pieces being distinctively marked for each player; a pair of dice, each die having distinctive marks on various faces thereof, said distinctive marks including differing numerical indicia and a second indicia different from the numerical indicia, each face of the die having said numerical indicia and said second indicia located thereon; the movement spaces including a plurality of money spaces located on the peripheral playing path and at least one bank space located in each inner playing path, there being at least one of said money spaces located after each of the bank spaces in the direction of playing piece movement; and the arrangement of the numerical indicia and the second indicia being such that the maximum possible numerical indicia displayed when both dice display the same second indicia is equal to the number of movement spaces between said money spaces on the peripheral playing path and also being equal to the number of movement spaces between the bank space in the inner playing path and the next following money space on the peripheral playing path.

Claim 16

A board game apparatus, comprising: a game board having a plurality of separate and distinct playing areas designated thereon, including a peripheral playing path extending around the perimeter of the board and a plurality of separate and distinct inner playing paths spaced inwardly from the peripheral playing path, each playing path being divided into a plurality of movement spaces variously representing benefit or detriment to the player, and said inner playing paths representing home bases for each player; a plurality of movement pieces for movement along the playing paths, said movement pieces being distinctively marked for each player; a pair of dice, each die having distinctive marks on various faces thereof, said distinctive marks including differing numerical indicia and a second indicia different from the numerical indicia, each face of the die having said numerical indicia and said second indicia located thereon; the movement spaces including a plurality of money spaces located on the peripheral playing path and at least one bank space located in each inner playing path, there being at least one of said money spaces located after each of the bank spaces in the direction of playing piece movement; and the arrangement of the numerical indicia and the second indicia being such that the maximum possible numerical indicia displayed when both dice display the same second indicia is equal to the number of movement spaces between said money spaces on the peripheral playing path and also being equal to the number of movement spaces between the bank space in the inner playing path and the next following money space on the peripheral playing path.