Patent Document ID: 9865177
Application ID: 14834839
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of playing a nutrition education board game, the game board comprising a playing surface, said surface imprinted with the layout of a small fictitious community, the community including a school, a post office, a hospital, a grocery store, a police station, seven streets named for weather phenomenon, and five community gardens, the community gardens comprising a metallic surface, the method comprising: a) providing for the selection of five individual players between the ages of five years and ten years of age to compete in playing the nutrition education board game; b) assigning a specific community garden to each player; c) providing at least forty magnetized game tokens representing a variety of different-colored fruits and vegetables, said game tokens displaying six different colors; d) providing a “Pilot Rainbow” puppet-like game piece which engages in the proper watering and care of the food tokens planted in the community gardens; e) providing a plurality of laminated game cards, each card imprinted with a question, below which is imprinted a plurality of choices of answers, said question relating to human nutrition, food categories, crop cultivation, and food selection; f) providing a game facilitator who maintains custody and control of said fruit and vegetable tokens, the laminated game cards, and whose game function is to ask of individual players a question imprinted upon a randomly-selected game card; g) providing each player with a battery-powered buzzer or clacker which is used to notify the facilitator of a possible correct answer; h) providing that the facilitator verbalize a question to the players, said question imprinted on one of said-cards; i) giving to the player being the first to press a game buzzer in anticipation of answering a question, the opportunity to respond to the facilitator's question; j) awarding a specifically requested color fruit or vegetable token to the player who gives the correct response to the facilitator's question read; k) requiring that the player having requested and received a specific fruit or vegetable token, plant said fruit or vegetable token in the player's garden by placing the token on the metallic surface of the specific community garden assigned to the player; l) repeating steps (h) through (k) until such time as one player has planted fruit and/or vegetable tokens containing all six of the colors defining the game; m) declaring the player that first plants fruits and/or vegetables containing all the six colors of the community in his/her garden as winner of the game.