Patent ID: 6446969
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A board game apparatus, including:a playing board; said playing board forming a territories playing field of squares formed into a grid of rows and columns; said playing board forming a sacrifice zone playing field of squares surrounding said territories playing field; a plurality of playing pieces divisible into a first and a second set of equal number; said first and second sets each comprising at least one emperor piece, a plurality of ambassador pieces, and a plurality of governor pieces; said emperor pieces each having two emperor sides, one emperor side bearing distinguishing emperor's first-set indicia and the other emperor side bearing distinguishing emperor's second-set indicia; said ambassador pieces each having two ambassador sides, one ambassador side bearing distinguishing ambassador's first-set indicia and the other ambassador side bearing distinguishing ambassador's second-set indicia; and said governor pieces each having two governor sides, one governor side bearing distinguishing governor's first-set indicia and the other governor side bearing distinguishing governor's second-set indicia, wherein said playing pieces may be arranged into said first and second sets by turning one half of said playing pieces first-set indicia side up and by turning the other half of said playing pieces second-set indicia side up, said playing board has ninety squares, said territories playing field has fifty-six squares, said sacrifice zone playing field has thirty-four squares, wherein said sacrifice zone playing field is visually distinguishable from said territories playing field, said territories playing field comprises squares of alternating first light and first dark colors, and said sacrifice zone playing field comprises squares of alternating second light and second dark colors.