Patent ID: 7198271

Claim:
A combined instructional tool for imparting theological or other thematic knowledge and experiential reinforcement of a core principle relating thereto to a plurality of participants comprising: a. a game board defining a plurality of spaces progressing from a starting point to an end point, at least a portion of said spaces each having formed thereon indicia of at least first, second, and third type; i. said first type of indicia including one of a plurality of knowledge directives; ii. said second type of indicia including one of a plurality of predetermined markers, each of said markers corresponding to a weighted opportunity for redemption from a punitive consequence; iii. said third type of indicia including one of a plurality of punitive directives imposing said punitive consequence; b. a plurality of categorized question stores, each said question store including a plurality of predetermined thematic questions for selection and consideration by the participants; c. at least one supplemental store each including a plurality of redemptive tokens, each of said redemptive tokens including a marker corresponding to at least one of said predetermined markers, a proportional number of said spaces having one of said predetermined markers being inversely related to a proportional number of said redemptive tokens having said marker corresponding thereto; and, d. a selector operable to randomly select an advancement parameter value; whereby the participants in turn each advance to a selected one of said game board spaces responsive to actuation of said selector and select a thematic question from said question store corresponding to said selected space; each participant compulsively complying with said punitive directive of said selected space upon failing to respond correctly to said thematic question, unless freed from such compulsion by selection from said redemptive tokens one corresponding to said selected space.