Patent ID: 7163402

Claim:
A method of stimulating interest in reading, comprising the steps of: a) providing a written story having designated consecutive portions; b) providing a game with a game board, said game board having a circular pathway on said game board's surface, said circular pathway consisting of coded spaces; c) providing players of said game an initial number of points; d) reading a first portion of said written story; e) generating random numbers to determine the number of coded spaces players will advance around said circular pathway; f) making a prediction as to what will happen next in said written story if said player has advanced to a coded space instructing said player to make said prediction; g) reading the next portion of said written story and removing a point from one or more players whose predictions are incorrect; and h) repeating steps e through g until all portions of the written story have been read, wherein the winner of said game is the player with the most points.