MANAGEMENT TEACHING GAME APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

Abstract of the DisclosureA management teaching game is employed to simulate a retail storeenvironment in which a player must pay his opponent a certain amount of playmoney determined by the number of questions the opponent has correctly answeredin a given category corresponding to a given player position. The game includesa gameboard having a first and a second player territory, a pair of playerpieces, a pair of dice, a question booklet, a computer for indicating the correctanswer to the questions posed in the question book, and a score sheet for keepingcumulative totals of correct answers in each category and a predetermined amountof play money. Each player must answer questions in specific categories when hisplayer piece resides on a position in his own territory. When a player's pieceis located in a player position in his opponent's territory he must pay hisopponent a certain amount of play money in proportion to the number of questionscorrectly answered by his opponent in the category of that particular playerposition. Moves of the player pieces are determined by a roll of the dice.Play is over when all the questions in all of the categories have been answeredby both players. The winner is the one who obtains the greatest amount of playmoney. The more correct answers a player knows to questions in each of thecategories, the more likely it is that he will win.