Method of playing a game of economics and finance

Claim 1

A method of playing a board game simulating situations of economics and finance using a board game comprising (1) a game board defining a multiplicity of contiguous marked space playing positions defining a continuous closed track extending about said game board, space playing positions bearing indicia of instructions for play of the game; (2) a plurality of playing pieces each representing a player; (3) means for determining how many space playing positions to move each playing piece about the track independent of any predetermined economic cycle; (4) simulated money or different denominations for use in play of the game; (5) means for indicating ownership of assets for purchase and sale by players using said simulated money; and (6) means for indicating a microeconomic or macroeconomic occurrence having a potential economic effect on the game value of an asset held by a player, and means for subsequently revealing the economic effects of said occurrence, after one or more players had an opportunity to act upon an expected economic effect of said occurrence having potential economic effect and including one or more second spaces permitting a player to buy and/or sell said means for indicating ownership of an asset; said method comprising: (a) each player, in turn, constituting an initial portfolio of assets by exchange of simulated money for means indicating ownership of assets; (b) each player, in turn, actuating said means for determining how many space playing positions to move his playing piece, and advancing his playing piece the determined number of positions along the closed track about the game board; (c) each said player on landing his playing piece upon a said first space consults said means for indicating an occurrence having potential economic effect, acts as he considers appropriate to maximize the total of his simulated money and asset value by buying or selling assets or by taking no action, and thereafter consults said means for subsequently revealing the economic effect of the occurrence, players thereafter receiving or paying simulated money on the basis of said economic effect of the occurrence on the assets in their respective portfolios; (d) each said player on landing his playing piece on a said second space buys and/or sells assets or takes no action as he desires; and (e) play of the game continues with each player acting in turn until the value of all assets and simulated money held by one player exceeds a predetermined total and that player is declared the winner.

Claim 2

A method of playing a board game simulating situations of economics and finance using a board game comprising (1) a game board defining a multiplicity of contiguous marked space playing positions defining a continuous closed track extending about said game board, space playing positions bearing indicia of instructions for play of the game; (2) a plurality of playing pieces each representing a player; (3) means for determining how many space playing positions to move each playing piece about the track independent of any predetermined economic cycle; (4) simulated money or different denominations for use in play of the game; (5) means for indicating ownership of assets for purchase and sale by players using said simulated money; and (6) means for indicating a microeconomic or macroeconomic occurrence having a potential economic effect on the game value of an asset held by a player, and means for subsequently revealing the economic effects of said occurrence, after one or more players had an opportunity to act upon an expected economic effect of said occurrence having potential economic effect and including one or more second spaces permitting a player to buy and/or sell said means for indicating ownership of an asset; said method comprising: (a) each player, in turn, constituting an initial portfolio of assets by exchange of simulated money for means indicating ownership of assets; (b) each player, in turn, actuating said means for determining how many space playing positions to move his playing piece, and advancing his playing piece the determined number of positions along the closed track about the game board; (c) each said player on landing his playing piece upon a said first space consults said means for indicating an occurrence having potential economic effect, acts as he considers appropriate to maximize the total of his simulated money and asset value by buying or selling assets or by taking no action, and thereafter consults said means for subsequently revealing the economic effect of the occurrence, players thereafter receiving or paying simulated money on the basis of said economic effect of the occurrence on the assets in their respective portfolios; (d) each said player on landing his playing piece on a said second space buys and/or sells assets or takes no action as he desires; and (e) play of the game continues with each player acting in turn until the value of all assets and simulated money held by one player exceeds a predetermined total and that player is declared the winner.