Patent ID: 6942217

Claim:
A method of playing a game comprising: providing a plurality of game units, wherein each game unit has at least one primary game piece and at least one secondary game piece; providing a playing surface having a plurality of spaces forming at least one path, wherein the spaces are sized to accommodate at least one game piece; providing a plurality of playing cards, wherein at least one playing card has a number for indicating the number of spaces for which at least one game piece of one game unit may move; providing a rule that requires the total number of spaces moved by all of the game pieces of one game unit to equal the number on the at least one playing card; and moving game pieces of a selected game unit along the spaces of the playing surface; wherein at least one of the game pieces of a selected game unit, after being moved, remains within a predetermined number of spaces on the playing surface of another game piece of the selected game unit; wherein the plurality of game pieces are configured to move separately from each other along the at least one path.