Patent ID: 8430671

Claim:
A method of encouraging good behavior activity by at least one child playing a game and rewarding the child playing the game with a real world reward earned by the child from play of the game with at least one adult comprising: (a) providing a game comprising a game board bearing indicia representing a store at which various real-world reward items may be acquired by the at least one child, said game board including plural locations, each of said locations including a releasably securable connector mounted thereon, a plurality of tokens each of said tokens representing a predetermined value, each of said tokens bearing indicia representative of said predetermined value, a bank for receipt of said tokens, and a plurality of reward markers, each of said reward markers having a front surface bearing fanciful graphics and text indicia representative of a real-world reward that can be acquired by said at least one child who completes a desired task or who exhibits good behavior, each of said reward markers having a rear surface opposite said front surface, each of said rear surfaces including a cooperating releasably securable connector; (b) providing a list of assigned tasks or actions of good behavior for said at least one child, each of said assigned tasks or actions of good behavior having an assigned value; (c) said at least one adult establishing a redemption value for each of said reward markers and advising the child of the value of each of said reward markers; (d) said at least one child selecting at least one reward marker from said plurality of reward markers, said at least one reward marker being indicative of a particular reward that said at least one child wishes to receive; (e) releasably securing said selected at least one reward marker onto a selected one of said locations on said game board by causing said cooperating releasably securable connector on said rear surface of said at least one selected reward marker to releasably engage said releasably securable connector on said game board at said selected one of said locations, whereupon said reward marker is readily visible at said selected one of said locations; (e) said at least one child undertaking a task from said list or exhibiting an action of good behavior from said list; (f) an adult providing said at least one child with at least one token in response to the accomplishment of said task or action of good behavior; (g) said at least one child depositing said at least one token in said bank, whereupon when said at least one child has sufficient tokens within said bank totaling the redemption value of the reward marker said at least one child wishes said at least one child may open said bank to retrieve said tokens and redeem that number of tokens to claim the real-world reward represented by said reward marker; and (h) an adult giving the child the real world reward claimed by the child.