Patent ID: 7314217

Claim:
A political campaign game comprising: a) a game board having a plurality of sides and defining a play surface; b) said play surface including a map of the United States with first indicia disposed on the outline of each state indicating the number of electoral votes assigned to each said state, a plurality of spaces that forms a single common play path for the players that surrounds said map, a location for campaign headquarters, and a location for a campaign workers pool; c) said play path including 50 state spaces and a plurality of non-state spaces, said state spaces each having second indicia disposed thereon indicating the name of each state and the number of electoral votes assigned to each said state; d) a plurality of distinct play markers to be selected and used by each player to represent a respective player's candidate to be moved along said spaces in the play path, a plurality of campaign office devices that are associated with each distinct play marker and that correspond to campaign offices to be placed on states of the map during play, and a plurality of shaped campaign worker elements for placement on the campaign workers pool location and for removable attachment to each campaign office device wherein each said element represents a campaign worker during play; e) a set of campaign headquarter cards for placement on the campaign headquarters location with each said card having instructions printed thereon, and each player has control of said campaign worker elements that each player places on the campaign workers pool location; f) chance means for randomly determining the number of spaces a play marker may be moved along said play path during a player's turn; and g) play money for distribution to each player represented by a distinct candidate play marker on the space designated White House and one shaped campaign worker element disposed on said campaign workers pool location for beginning play.