Educational board game

Claim 1

A game for stimulating a plurality of participants to improve language skills in learning to interpret the meaning of idiomatic expressions comprising, a game board having a playing field defined by a course extending in a continuous path from a start point to a finish point, said continuous path being divided into increments from said start point to said finish point, a plurality of game pieces representing the respective positions of the participants on said course between said start and finish points, a deck of cards, each card in said deck having on one face thereof an idiomatic expression, a definition of the idiomatic expression as understood in the language of the expression, and a number for determining incremental advancement of said respective game pieces along said continuous path, each of said cards having a different idiomatic expression thereon, each card having on an opposite face an illustration being symbolic of said idiomatic expression, said card face bearing said illustration being revealed to an answering participant for abstractly interpreting said illustration with said card face bearing the idiomatic expression being concealed from said answering participant, said game piece of said answering participant being advanced a selected increment along said path upon said answering participant first translating the illustration into a known idiomatic expression and identifying said idiomatic expression followed by correctly defining the meaning of said idiomatic expression as understood in the language symbolically represented by said illustration on said card face, and said game pieces of said participants being progressively advanced along said path in response to identifying said idiomatic expression and then correctly defining the meaning of said idiomatic expression until one of said participants is the first to reach said finish point.