Patent Document ID: 5487548
Application ID: 08326810
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of playing a question and answer board game comprising the following steps: (a) providing game board means simulating a SNOOKER table; (b) providing twenty-one game board pieces positionable on said game board means, said game pieces having the same colors respectively as the balls used in SNOOKER and including fifteen red game board pieces, one yellow game board piece, one green game board piece, one brown game board piece, one blue game board piece, one pink game board piece, and one black game board piece; (c) assigning ascending point values to said game pieces as follows: red=1 yellow=2 green=3 brown=4 blue=5 pink=6 black=7 (d) providing a series of seven questions ranging in difficulty from easiest to most difficult, the seven questions being labeled in order of ascending difficulty as red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black; (e) permitting a player to attempt to answer the easiest question in said series, said easiest question being a red question; (f) permitting said player to attempt to answer a second question in said series of questions if said player answers said easiest question correctly, said second question being more difficult than said easiest question, said second question being selected by chance from said series of questions, wherein said second question must be a color question selected from the group consisting of yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black; (g) assigning point values to said questions in said series, said point values ascending in accordance with difficulty and being equal to said point values assigned to said colors in step (c); (h) deriving said player's score by summing together the point values of the questions in said series correctly answered by said player; (i) associating the game board pieces and their respective colors with the point values assigned to said series of questions; (j) removing the game pieces from said board when a corresponding question is correctly answered by an individual player; (k) permitting said player to attempt to answer a third question in said series of questions if said player answers said second question correctly, said second question being selected by chance from said series of questions, wherein said second question must be a color question selected from the group consisting of yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black.