Patent ID: 7677570

Claim:
A method of competitively playing a board game by a plurality of players, the method comprising: providing a game board having eighty one receptacles, the receptacles arranged in nine rows, each row containing nine receptacles, and the game board further segmented into nine regions of nine receptacles; providing eighty one markers for placing into the receptacles of the game board, wherein the eighty one markers are comprised of nine distinct groups of nine; placing nine, and only nine, markers in receptacles on the game board to initialize game play, wherein each of the markers placed on the game board to initialize game play is selected from a different one of the nine distinct groups of nine and is not moved from a receptacle in which it was placed; distributing the remaining markers equally among the plurality of players; placing by the plurality of players, in turn, one marker in any vacant receptacle, wherein only one distinct marker may be placed in any row, column, or region; and counting the number of markers played by each player wherein a winner is the player who plays the most markers.