Board game incorporating drinking beverages and method of playing board game, and board and gamepieces therefor and method of use thereof

Abstract

Disclosed is a board game providing opportunities for drinking (e.g., social drinking) beverages (e.g., alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages) during playing of the game. The board game includes a plurality of side games. Of these side games, the board game provides for various miniature competitions between selected players of the plurality of players playing the game, when one of the players lands on a location of the board providing for a miniature competition. The miniature competition can be a drinking game known on college campuses. Each player has a game or playing piece which initially is in the form of an empty carton for bottles (e.g., an empty 6-pack carton), and winners of the miniature competitions win bottle-shaped structures (e.g., beverage bottle-shaped structures) to be placed in the winner's carton. The game is won by the player filling the carton gamepiece with bottle-shaped structures (e.g., filling a 6-pack carton with six beverage bottle-shaped structures).

1 . Gamepiece for a board game, comprising a member adapted to hold bottle-shaped structures collected during playing of the board game.  
   
   
       2 . Gamepiece according to  claim 1 , wherein the member is a member having a shape of a 6-pack holder of beverages, and said bottle-shaped structures are in the form of bottles for holding beverages.  
   
   
       3 . Gamepiece according to  claim 2 , wherein the gamepiece has a 6-pack carton design of a respective type of beverage.  
   
   
       4 . A plurality of gamepieces according to  claim 3 , wherein each gamepiece has a carton design of a different brand of beverage.  
   
   
       5 . Method of playing a game using a gamepiece according to  claim 1 , wherein a player of the game uses the gamepiece traveling around a board of the board game; at predetermined locations of the board the player plays a miniature competition; and where the player wins the miniature competition the player collects a bottle-shaped structure to place in said gamepiece.  
   
   
       6 . Method according to  claim 5 , wherein the game is played until a player collects bottle-shaped structures so as to fill up the member.  
   
   
       7 . A board for a board game, having a continuous path around the board and at least one location on the board where miniature competitions between a player landing on said at least one location and another player are initiated.  
   
   
       8 . The board according to  claim 7 , wherein the continuous path around the board includes diverging paths where a player can choose to proceed in one of two directions.  
   
   
       9 . The board according to  claim 8 , wherein the continuous path includes a path around the periphery of the board and a path, continuous with the peripheral path, diagonally across the board.  
   
   
       10 . A board game comprising the board according to  claim 7  and a plurality of gamepieces, one for each player, each gamepiece comprising a member adapted to hold bottle-shaped structures collected during playing of the board game.  
   
   
       11 . The board game according to  claim 10 , wherein the member is a member having a shape of a 6-pack holder of beverages, and said bottle-shaped structures are in the form of beverage bottles.  
   
   
       12 . The board game according to  claim 10 , wherein each gamepiece has a carton design of different brand of beverage.  
   
   
       13 . Method of playing a board game by a plurality of players using the board according to  claim 7 , comprising the steps of: 
 (a) each player chooses a different gamepiece, each gamepiece being adapted to hold a same number of bottle-shaped structures therein but containing less than said same number of bottle-shaped structures at the beginning of the game;    (b) each player, starting at a same starting point, in turn determining landing positions along said path by chance means;    (c) when a player, of the plurality of players, lands on a location along said path which directs that a miniature competition take place, said player plays said miniature competition with another of said plurality of players, and a winner of said miniature competition wins a bottle-shaped structure for the gamepiece of said winner; and    (d) when a player fills the player's gamepiece with bottle-shaped structures, so as to have a filled gamepiece, the player with the filled gamepiece wins the board game.    
   
   
       14 . The method of playing the board game according to  claim 13 , wherein second locations along said path, other than locations which directs that said miniature competitions take place, are locations which direct players landing thereon to take drinks of beverages or which permit the player landing thereon to require other players to take drinks of beverages.  
   
   
       15 . The method of playing the board game according to  claim 14 , wherein said beverages are favorite beverages.  
   
   
       16 . The method of playing a board game according to  claim 13 , wherein the continuous path around the board includes diverging paths where a player can choose to proceed in one of two directions.