RU2090231C1 - Table game - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: table games for learning elementary information concerning market economy. SUBSTANCE: playing board is divided into sequence of cells with arbitrarily alternating designations. Cells of playing board have designations of institutions, objects of market economy and commands, that are simulating situations supposing certain payments. Auxiliary cards are provided with marks designating patent, equipment, raw materials, materials, complete sets, personnel. Devices simulating features of material property are formed as cards with marks designating model of enterprise and are divided into parts, each corresponding to one group of auxiliary cards. Selection devices are formed as cards with marks corresponding to playing field cells. EFFECT: increased training and entertaining effect. 4 dwg

Description

 The present invention relates to imitating board games and is intended to familiarize the players with the basic concepts of a market economy and the mechanism of action of the laws of free enterprise.

 Economic games are patented and made in many countries of the world. These games contain a playing field with cells, random number sensors of various designs, cards, some of which simulate banknotes, and the other part are teams for the players to act, means that provide players with a choice that affects the course of the game both the player and its partners, and means imitating signs of material property of players.

 In connection with the interest in free enterprise that appeared in society, a lot of imitation board games appeared, such as those developed by the American experts Birzha, Monopoly, its domestic version, Manager, etc. However, those who have mastered these games lose their initial interest in them over time, which is caused by the player’s limited ability to take the initiative and influence the overall game situation. This translates into too much dependence on success in the game on random number sensors, team cards, and team places.

 These disadvantages are the well-known game "Monopoly", in which the nature of the game is usually determined by several cells of the playing field, and not the personal qualities of the players.

 The authors of the game “Shareholder” tried to eliminate these shortcomings [1]. This game contains an exchange board, which, however, is not a game field, but serves as an indicator of the value of four colors.

 The game also contains two decks of special cards and plastic cards that are recorded on it, the player’s score changing during the game. The essence of the game is the desire of each player to gain the greatest capital. You can allow a comparison in which the famous game is a variant of one of the card games, since two decks of playing cards and their four colors are tied to competition and situations on the free market only in terminology.

On the set of essential features, in particular, on technical means, the board game is closest to the claimed invention [2]
This game contains a game board divided into sequentially arranged cells with randomly alternating designations, dice, chips to indicate the position of each player on the board, a set of playing cards, including cards that simulate banknotes and cards that indicate teams for the players, actions, imitating signs of material property and means of choice, determining the course of the game.

 This game, which imitates economic relations in one of its areas of activity, does not fully represent the mechanism of a market economy, in particular, it lacks such economic categories as exchanges, stocks, taxes, and profits. In addition, the game lacks a production process.

 Team cards in this game force players to take any actions, such as moving signs of wealth, selling property, leaving the player no opportunity to take any initiative in relation to the current situation.

 The technical result of the invention is the expansion of gaming capabilities.

 The specified technical result is achieved by the fact that the board game for imitating the activities of an entrepreneur is known, it is equipped with a card with a table of the price level for goods and auxiliary cards, one of the groups of which has a marking indicating a patent, second equipment, third raw materials, materials, components, fourth personnel, at the same time, funds imitating signs of tangible property are made in the form of individual cards with markings indicating enterprise models and divided into parts, each of which corresponds to There is one of the groups of auxiliary cards, the means of choice are made in the form of sets of cards with a marking corresponding to the cells of the playing field, one of the sets has a marking indicating ownership, the second consultation, the third business surprise, the fourth insurance certificate, the fifth bill, and the cells of the playing field have designations of institutions, objects of a market economy and teams, which of which imitates situations involving certain payments.

 In FIG. 1 shows a game board, in FIG. 2 example of the implementation of one of the game cards: "Enterprise Model"; in FIG. 3 table of market prices; in FIG. 4 playing board with signs.

 A board game to simulate the activities of an entrepreneur contains a game board 1 (Fig. 1, 4), divided into sequentially arranged cells with randomly alternating designations, card 3 with a table of price levels for goods, playing cards, chips of six colors, game cards simulating banknotes , a set of cards denoting the enterprise model 4 (Fig. 2), divided into 4 cells, corresponding to filling auxiliary cards denoting "patent", "equipment", "raw materials, components", "personnel" and sets of these auxiliary cards with drawings on them corresponding to their name, a set of cards denoting "ownership" of six colors, legitimizing the ownership of owners of property, a set of cards denoting "consultation", depicting the consulting office from the outside, and the texts from the inside consultations on various issues and the cost of services, a set of cards denoting an "insurance certificate" with drawings on them corresponding to their name, a set of cards denoting "n Business expectations "on the outside of which are plotted figures corresponding to their name, and the inside of the texts of all sorts of unexpected situations and the amount of revenue losses go, set a different color card indicating" bill. "

 Dice, chips and other game accessories such as cards denoting banknotes, etc. do not differ from the well-known and therefore not shown in the drawings.

 The game is intended for 2-6 players.

 Before the start of the game, the packs of cards indicating “consultation” and “business surprises” are placed down on the playing board with the text down, and the packs of cards indicating “raw materials, components and accessories”, “equipment”, “personnel”, “insurance certificate” , "patent", card models of enterprises text up on the gaming table.

 Cards denoting "ownership" and "bill of exchange" are dealt to players depending on the color of the selected chips.

 Each player is given a blank sheet of paper on which he notes the amount of debts, the real time of obtaining loans and issuing bills during the game.

 To calculate the annual interest on bank loans and bills a year is: 30 minutes for 2 players; 45 minutes for 3 to 4; 60 minutes - for 5-6 players.

 Each player is given 250 thousand monetary units, conventionally called checks in the game. The remaining money is the fund of the bank.

 Players roll dice, and the player with the highest score places his chip in the "Start Game" box. He then rolls the dice again and makes a clockwise move according to the number of points scored. Following him, he rolls dice and makes the code the player sitting on his left, and so on. If the player made the wrong move or not with his chip, he pays a fine to the bank in the amount of 10,000 checks.

 The stock, commodity and labor exchanges, joint-stock bank, auction, business school, marketing office, insurance company are joint-stock companies whose capital is represented in the form of three shares with a par value of one third of the value of the company indicated in the corresponding box on the game board. Shares are freely sold and bought when a chip gets into the "Deal" cell, in the cell of a joint-stock company or when the shares are sold on the stock exchange.

The acquisition of shares is fixed by a card denoting the "property" of its color, which the player puts in the cage of the corresponding enterprise. A player who buys two or three shares of one enterprise, is the owner of a controlling stake in this company with a casting vote to manage it. Income from joint-stock activities is distributed equally between shares held by their holders. Therefore, if even one share of the enterprise is bought, the income is wholly owned by its holder and he manages this enterprise. If two or three shares are bought in two or three
The game has an antitrust law, according to which, when a chip falls into the "Collapse of the Monopoly" sector, a player who owns two or three shares of one company, respectively, gives one or two shares to the stock exchange for sale, receiving for it the difference between the sale value and the interest due stock exchange, and at the same time he himself does not have the right to purchase this share.

 Players holding shares of the stock exchange receive an income of 20% of all operations of the sale of shares.

 Players holding stock market commodities receive income from the sale of raw materials, supplies, components and equipment in the form of the difference between the selling price and the market.

 Players holding shares of the labor exchange receive income from employment activities in the form of a difference between the selling price and the market.

 If the transaction on the acquisition of goods or the employment of personnel on the commodity exchange or labor exchange did not take place and the parties concerned did not enter into a contract, the exchange owners pay a fine equal to the difference between the originally requested price and the market price, and the failed buyer loses this move.

 Players holding shares in a joint-stock bank receive income from credit operations. The interest for a bank loan is determined by agreement and the maximum amount is not limited. Players can take a loan during their course, without losing their right to perform other operations. In the absence of bank owners, a loan is issued at 20% per annum. In addition, players holding shares of the bank receive amounts from fines and consultation services. All other types of payments go to the bank fund. Bank shareholders only manage the funds of the bank’s fund and carry out financial transactions.

 Players with shares of the business school and marketing office receive an income in the amount of the cost of services when other players' chips get into these cells.

 The player who got into the “Tax Administration” cell with his chip pays real estate tax in the amount of 10% of the value of his property (land, share capital) to the bank’s fund. If he is a co-owner of the company, he pays tax depending on the number of shares he has, and if he is the only owner of the company owning at least one share, he pays tax on the value of the entire enterprise.

 In case of poor financial condition or bankruptcy of enterprises, property owners themselves or at the request of their creditors put it up for sale at auction. Holders of auction shares receive an income of 20% of the transaction amount.

 A player who does not have shares in the auction, if he falls into this cage, is obliged to either purchase a share of the auction or put up for sale any indivisible part of his property (land, raw materials or equipment).

 Players can insure themselves against the unexpectedness of business in an insurance company and receive an insurance certificate. The insurance premium goes to the fund of the insurance company. In the event of an insured event, a player with an insurance certificate shall not incur losses if they do not exceed the sum insured. If the amount of losses exceeds the insurance amount, the difference is paid by the player to the fund of the insurance company. The insurance certificate used in this way is returned to the insurance company. Uninsured players in the case of getting into the box "Business Surprises" pay the amount of damage to the insurance company. The resulting insurance fund is stored under the playing field in the "Insurance Company" cell and is not subject to withdrawal until the end of the game. At the end of the game, it is counted to the shareholders of this company.

 The game uses promissory notes, which players can issue to each other as a debt under a commercial loan. The issuance of the bill and the amount on it is fixed on paper. The holder of a bill of exchange can receive money in a fun way, without waiting for the expiration of the term, by depositing a bill of exchange to the bank. The bank pays the amount as agreed. Upon the expiration of the payment term, the drawer is obligated to pay the drawer the amount of the debt with interest. Otherwise, the amount of interest doubles. In case of non-payment of a debt, the drawer is entitled to demand the sale of the drawer's property at the auction for this amount.

 If a chip hits the "Land" sector, the player has the right to purchase it. In case of refusal of the player from his purchase, the site is sold at auction. If the site is not sold at the auction, the player pays a fine of 20 percent of its face value.

 When buying land, the player is given a map of the model of the enterprise.

 A player who owns a land plot has the right to buy a patent worth 1000 checks when a chip enters the "Deal" cage. Then, when he gets into the "Deal" cage, he acquires raw materials, materials, components, equipment, personnel at the commodity and labor exchanges and builds an enterprise. Having built the enterprise, he receives money for the products from the bank’s fund in the amount of the price indicated in the table applied to the playing field. Having paid a tax of 10 percent of the profit indicated in this table, the player passes the cards, leaving him a patent.

 The game is considered completed when one of the players sells any six types of products. This player is paid a cash bonus in the amount of 200 thousand checks.

 After all players fulfill their payment obligations, the winner is determined, which is the player who has the greatest wealth in the form of money, stocks, patents and real estate.

Claims (1)

 A board game to simulate the activities of an entrepreneur, containing a game board divided into successively arranged cells with randomly alternating designations, dice, chips to indicate the position of each player on the board, a set of playing cards, including cards that simulate banknotes and cards that indicate teams for action players, means that simulate signs of material property and means of choice, determining the course of the game, characterized in that it is equipped with a map with a level table prices for goods and auxiliary cards, one of the groups of which is marked with a patent, the second equipment, the third raw materials, components, fourth staff, while the means imitating signs of material property are made in the form of individual cards with markings indicating the model enterprises and divided into parts, each of which corresponds to one of the groups of auxiliary cards, the means of choice are made in the form of sets of cards with markings corresponding to the cells of the game field, one of the sets has a marking indicating the property of the second consultation, the third - the business of surprise, the fourth certificate of insurance, the fifth bill, and the playing field cells are designated institutions, objects of the market economy and the teams, some of which simulates a situation involving certain payments.

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