Patent ID: 7641196

Claim:
A method of playing a board game comprising the steps of: providing a game board, said board comprised of a plurality of nodes; providing a source node for each player; providing a plurality of playing pieces, said playing pieces each having a plurality of faces representing states, said playing pieces representing each of the states; providing predetermined acting abilities to each playing piece, according to the state of each piece; operating a selected piece by each player, in turn, by having one of the player's playing pieces act on one of another of the player's own pieces, a playing piece of another player, and an empty node, according to its predetermined acting abilities as characterized by its current state; removing the acting piece; backfilling the empty node with another of the player's own pieces directly linked to the newly emptied node, and continuing the backfilling consecutively back to the player's source node; placing a new piece on the player's own source node in any state the player chooses; and repeating the steps of operating, removing, backfilling and placing until one player's piece is removed from the player's source node by the other player.