Patent Document ID: 20170061819
Application ID: 14834839
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of playing a nutrition education board game, for five players ranging in age from five years to ten years, comprising the steps of: a) providing a board having a game playing surface, said surface imprinted with the layout of a small fictitious community, said 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; b) 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: c) assigning a specific community garden to each player; d) providing at least forty (40) magnetized game tokens representing a variety of different-colored fruits and vegetables, said game tokens displaying six different colors: e) 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; f) providing a plurality of laminated game cards, each card imprinted with a question, below which is imprinted with a plurality of choices of answers, said question relating to human nutrition, food categories, crop cultivation, and food selection; g) 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 h) providing each player with a battery-powered buzzer or clacker which is used to notify the facilitator of a possible correct answer; j) providing that the facilitator verbalize a question of the players, said question imprinted on one of said laminated cards, and further, said question querying each player's knowledge of a certain area of human nutrition; j) 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; k) players that are familiar with the correct answer responding to the question asked by the facilitator and being the first to give the correct response; l) awarding a specifically requested color fruit or vegetable token to the player which gives the correct response to a question read from one of said laminated cards; m) 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; n) repeating steps i) through m) until such time as one player has planted fruit and/or vegetable tokens containing all six of the colors defining the game; o) 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.