Patent ID: 7234699

Claim:
A method of playing a family vacation board game, wherein family members plan and play to save a predetermined amount of game currency required for the family members to go on a dream vacation, comprising the steps of: a) providing a game board having a start space, an end space, and a path having a plurality of game spaces leading from said start space to said end space, wherein a play instruction is presented on each of said game spaces; b) providing a first chance means; c) providing a set of tokens where each of said tokens represents a player and said player's space position on said path; d) choosing a player to be a game banker responsible for distributing the game currency; e) providing a predetermined amount of game currency to each player and a predetermined amount of said currency to said game banker; f) providing a plurality of reward choice cards and a plurality of penalty choice cards, respectively providing rewards and penalties during the play, said reward or penalty comprising a reward or penalty of a predetermined amount of said game currency to be distributed or collected, respectively by said game banker; g) players selecting a vacation destination; h) players determining said vacation expense; i) players selecting a first player; j) having first through subsequent players each move their player space position token sequentially along said game path spaces in turn according to a number indicated by said first chance means wherein each player must follow the play instruction given on the game space reached or must follow the play instruction given on the choice card allocated by said game space instruction; k) awarding or penalizing players according to said play instruction presented on said game space or presented on said choice card, and l) when all players reach the end space, determining if the predetermined amount of money required for the family to go on their dream vacation has been accumulated by the players thereby resulting in either all said players winning or losing.