Patent ID: 6371848
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
An educational game simulating business startup to initial public offering, comprising:a board including a number of spaces, where the spaces are divided into a plurality of stages with a finance space between each stage, where each of the stages represents a portion of a path from business startup to initial public offering, where the finance spaces each represent a finance round where players may sell stock in their respective businesses to finance the play of the game and where the price of the stock for at least one player increases along the path from business startup to initial public offering; a plurality of playing pieces, each piece associated with a player; a business plan for each player representing their business and including portions to be completed by the player during the course of the game, where at least one of the portions corresponds to at least one stage of the game; and wherein the game is played by each player moving a playing piece from a start position on the board toward a finish position by way of the spaces.