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Click here to list it for sale. Similar Games Electoral College Combat. The Laughing Pig. Nasty Neighbors. Knowbody Knows. My Date with a Zombie. Mork from Ork Name Game. To select a particular answer, each player will press one of the selection buttons. Once all of the players have pushed a selected answer button on their respective concealed screens, each player will be credited with or awarded the points associated with the selected answer automatically.
When the minimum required number of points for moving from one rung to another is achieved, lights 75 will be illuminated according to the number of points accumulated by each player. The use of the automated board illustrated in FIG.
The game of the present invention can also be supplemented by adding additional questions and answers which can be downloaded from a supplier site on the internet. Players of the game will be able to locate an internet site that has a data base of questions and answers. Players are able to test the use of such additional questions and answers directly on the internet by having limited access to such additional questions and answers.
Then, players are able to purchase sets of additional questions and answers directly from the supplier site on the internet in the usual manner. Once purchased, the additional questions and answers can be downloaded for use by the players.
A more complex variation of the game described above is illustrated in connection with FIGS. Each set of question and answer cards contain questions and answers relating to a particular corporate function.
Container 31 contains question and answer cards 32 which have questions and answers relating to the legal corporate function. Container 31 and the cards 32 will therefore have the same color red as ladder 11 illustrated on the board 10 or ladder on a side of the pyramid playing surface Container 33 carries question and answer cards 34 which relate to the finance function and therefore both the box and it's cards will be colored blue to correspond to ladder 12 of board 10 or side of pyramid Similarly, container 35 contains question and answer cards 36 which relate to the operations function and therefore both the container 35 and its cards 36 will be colored green to correspond with the operations corporate ladder 13 of board 10 or the operations ladder side of the pyramid Additional boxes or containers of question and answer cards corresponding to additional corporate functions can also be provided if additional ladders having different corporate functions are incorporated in the game.
To play this version of the game, a player will choose a particular player piece and will choose or be assigned to a particular corporate ladder. Each player will place his player piece on the first rung of his respective ladder, i.
Each player in turn will choose a question and answer card from the container relating to the particular corporate ladder or function that player has chosen. For example, the player seeking to ascend the legal corporate ladder 11 will choose a question and answer card 32 from it's container To avoid mistakes, the legal container 31 and it's respective cards 32 are color coded the same as the color of legal corporate ladder 11, in the example given above, the red color.
The front face 42 of the card 32 is illustrated in FIG. Both faces will contain a legend 44 designating the particular function or ladder to which this card relates. In the illustration shown in FIGS. The front face 42 of the card 32 will contain a question 45 relating to the legal activities of the corporation. The opposite side 43 of card 32 will contain four possible answers 46 1 , 46 2 , 46 3 and 46 4 which are each correct to some degree.
While each answer is correct to a degree, one of the answers 46 4 is the best answer, or most correct and therefore has a four point value. Answer 46 1 will be least correct and thus has only a one point value. Answers 46 2 and 46 3 have two point and three point values respectively. In assembling the questions and answers for each function, industry leaders will be consulted to provide their views of appropriate questions and answers.
In playing the game, a first player will select a question and answer card from the box or the container corresponding to the functional ladder associated with that player.
So for example, the player ascending ladder 11, the legal ladder, will choose a card 32 from the box Upon viewing the question 45, the player will be permitted to select an answer from one of four answer cards 32' as shown in FIG. Each answer card will match one of the answers 46 1 4 on the reverse side 43 of card 32, and that player will be awarded the point value of his matching answer.
Each player will also receive a perk card 50, such as illustrated in FIG. Each perk card will have a corporate perk Perk card 50 shown in FIG. Each player in turn will select a question and answer card from the container associated with that player's particular ladder. The player ascending the finance ladder will choose a card 34 from the finance box 33, and a player ascending the operations ladder will choose a card 36 from the operations container A box containing cards relating to a sales and marketing function not shown will also be provided if the playing surface has a sales and marketing ladder.
The players will thus select the question and answer cards and will also then select from the group of four answers, an answer which that player believes is most correct. The players will accumulate point values depending on the answers they select. Upon achieving a minimum number of points, a player will be permitted to move it's playing piece from the lower most rung 15 to the next succeeding rung 16 corresponding to the position of assistant supervisor.
The players can agree on the minimum number of points which will be required for such a move. For example, a player must achieve and accumulate eight points to move from one rung to the next. As in real life, once achieving a certain level within a corporation, career advancement depends upon a person's abilities in areas of general management and general business rather than solely within that person's area of expertise in a particular corporate function.
Accordingly, once that person reaches the vice president level, subsequent questions and answers should be chosen from a set of question and answer cards 88 from a box 87 which relate to areas of general management. An example of a card 88 is illustrated in FIGS. As with the functional ladder specific questions, an example of which is shown in FIGS.
Questions 90 on one side of the card shown on FIG. When a player reaches the level of vice president on that player's ladder, that player will then have to select a question from the general management box An answer selected from answer cards 92 shown in FIG. A perk card will also be awarded. Once again, the players can decide how many points will be required to advance up the corporate ladder beyond the vice president level.
For example, to be promoted from one rung to the next after achieving the vice president level will require twelve points. Similarly, once the player reaches the level of division president, a higher number of points will be required to achieve the ultimate goal of chief executive officer. For example, to be promoted from division president to chief executive officer will require sixteen points.
The game of the present invention has heretofore been described in connection with a playing surface either on a two dimensional board 10, as shown in FIG. The operations and various features of the present invention however may be contained within a computer software program.
Program 60 will operate through a central computing unit The various features of the game are displayed on a computer terminal The program 60 will consist of source code containing numerous questions and answers which can be selected electronically. Selected answers will similarly result in perks point values which can be designated to particular players on a score card electronically maintained by the program.
The program 60 can be contained on a floppy disk or compact disk which can be read by most personal computers.
The invention has been described and illustrated in connection with certain preferred embodiments which illustrate the principals of the invention. However, it should be understood that various modifications and changes may readily occur to those skilled in the art, and it is not intended to limit the invention to the construction and operation of the embodiment shown and described herein.
Accordingly, additional modifications and equivalents may be considered as falling within the scope of the invention as the defined by the claims hereinbelow. What is claim is: 1. A corporate ladder game, comprising: a playing surface defining a plurality of corporate ladders, each said ladder being designated by a specific corporate function and each said ladder having a specific color;. The corporate ladder game according to claim 1 wherein said playing surface is a two dimensional board, said corporate ladders being illustrated thereon.
The corporate ladder game according to claim 2 wherein the top position of chief executive officer of each ladder is common to all of said ladders. The corporate ladder game according to claim 3 wherein said ladders are radially arranged about a circle with said top position located at the center of said circle. The corporate ladder game according to claim 1 wherein said playing surface is an electronic screen, and further comprising a software program having instructions and source code permitting the playing of said game electronically.
The corporate ladder game according to claim 1 wherein said playing surface is a three dimensional multi-sided pyramid, each side of said pyramid defining a different corporate ladder, said steps being formed into the inclined surface of each side of said pyramid. The corporate ladder game according to claim 6 wherein the top position of chief executive officer of each ladder is common to all the ladders and is located at the top of said pyramid.
The corporate ladder game according to claim 1 wherein each ladder comprises the steps of trainee, assistant supervisor, supervisor, manager, director, assistant vice president, vice president, senior vice president, executive vice president, president, and chief executive officer, the position of chief executive officer being common to all the ladders.
The corporate ladder game according to claim 8 wherein said ladder specific question and answer cards are used until a player reaches the position of vice president of a specific ladder, and said ladder non-specific question and answer cards are used from the position of vice president and above. The corporate ladder game according to claim 9 wherein each question and answer card has a single quesiton on one side thereof and a plurality of answers on the other side thereof, each said answer of said plurality of answers having a specific point value, a selected answer to said question from said answer cards results in the award of a point value corresponding to the correct answer.
When two or more players construction plans reach a point of intersection. Once the board gets a little more crowded the game transforms from personal expression to social interaction. Interestingly, once players are forced into conflict and reconciliation with one another, personalities become as much of a deciding factor as building strategies do. There is a tendency for each player to either engage with one other player or to try to avoid all other players for the entire game.
This has a result that many four player games are actually two separate duels being played on the same board. After the dominant player attacks one of his nearest neighbors, the other two players decide to either engage with each other or to avoid all other players or keep to them selves. Again this is not always, but often the case.
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