Patent Document ID: 5441277
Application ID: 08275294

Base Claim:
1. A method of playing a board game including a game board having a plurality of distinguishable spaces including a starting space, a winning space, and a plurality of spaces therebetween, wherein advancement of a player from said starting space to said winning space is dependent upon a player successfully complying with instructions for creating or reciting a rhyme within a designated period of time, said instructions selected from the group consisting of: (a) creating or reciting a multi-line rhyme, each line containing a plurality of words, one line ending with a word selected at random, and the remaining lines ending with a word that rhymes with the word selected at random; (b) creating or reciting a multi-line rhyme, each line containing a plurality of words, a plurality of said lines ending with a word that rhymes with a word selected at random; (c) reciting two multi-word lines from a literary or musical work--one line ending in a word that rhymes with an ending word of the other line; and (d) choosing a greeting card topic such as a holiday, birthday, graduation, etc., creating or reciting a multi-line greeting card message relating to the chosen greeting card topic, each line containing a plurality of words, one line ending with a word selected at random, and the remaining lines ending with a word that rhymes with the word selected at random.

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Claim 8:
8. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the player advances by rolling a die and advancing a number of spaces corresponding to a number appearing on an upwardly facing surface of the die, either before or after complying with said instructions.