Educational board game

Claim 1

An educational game for two or more players comprising: a game board depicting a map of the United States, said map including boundaries for each state and each state having a predetermined electoral vote, a chance device, at least two game pieces, each game piece being associated with each player and being movable between states on said game board map, the number of moves at a turn being determined by said chance device, a plurality of point cards, one point card being associated with each game piece for each state, each point card for each state having first indicia means on one side of the point card corresponding to the identity of the state and the number of electoral votes for the particular state, and each point card for each state having second indicia means on its other side corresponding to only one of the game pieces so that one point card is associated with each player for each state, a plurality of question cards, each having a front and rear surface, at least one governmental question being imprinted on the front surface of each card and the answer to said at least one governmental question being imprinted on the rear surface of each said question card, wherein, with a player's gamepiece on a state in said map, upon correctly answering the governmental question on one of said question cards, said last mentioned player is awarded the point card associated with said last mentioned player for said last mentioned state, wherein the player who first receives the number of points on said point cards corresponding to the number of electoral votes necessary for election to the Presidency of the United States and thereafter returns to a predetermined place on said map wins the game, and wherein, except for states contiguous to said predetermined place on the map, each game piece positioned on a state forms a blocking means to prevent other game pieces from landing on said last mentioned state.