Patent ID: 6979000

Claim:
A racing game comprising: a race track comprising a circuit of discrete track positions, wherein each track position corresponds to a particular race vehicle associated with a particular race team or to a particular game command, and wherein there are race vehicles for at least two race teams distributed around the race track; a set of game tokens, each token used to represent the movement of an individual player around the race track; game money to be used by the players in support of game play; a race list that identifies one or more races for which players may chance at qualification; and a qualification spinner used to chance race qualification; wherein an object of the game is for individual players to land on and buy the race vehicles for at least one race team and thereby become eligible to chance at qualifying for a selected race appearing on the race list, and wherein chancing qualification comprises spinning the qualification spinner; and wherein one of the particular game commands is a tire change penalty command, and the racing game further comprises a tire change penalty prop that is used to determine a severity of the tire change penalty, said tire change penalty prop comprising a set of model tires, each having a color-coded side, such that a player may toss the set of tires and determine the severity of the penalty based on the number of tires that land color-coded side up or side down.