Patent ID: 6416055
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A board game for teaching negotiation, advocacy and judicial decision-making skills to players, comprising:(a) a board having a number of spaces upon which the players may randomly, sequentially land; (a) a plurality of such spaces having categorical designations and a series of pre-mixed questions in each such category; (b) a location for engaging debate among two or more players upon the provision of an answer by one of such players of a question in a category as a result of that player's having landed upon that space, followed by an objection by another of such players to said answer; (c) a player-based judicial decision making function to engage debate and determine whether the answer or the objection is more persuasive; (d) a game-winning position determined by the collection of a plurality of letters that spell out a pre-determined word, and each one of said letters is associated with one or more of the spaces; and (e) wherein the consequence of the determination by the judicial decision-making function that the objection is more persuasive is the loss of a letter by the objecting player to the answering player, together with the win by the answering player of the letter associated with the space upon which the answering player landed.