Board games with corresponding pairs of player movers and methods for playing the same

Abstract

Board games may include a game board having a pathway consisting of a plurality of interconnected movement spaces, a plurality of pairs of corresponding player movers, a plurality of movement tokens each including movement indicia, and a plurality of game cards each including instructional indicia. Some embodiments may further include a game card with indicia indicating separating a pair of corresponding player movers occupying the same movement space by moving one player mover of the pair to a different movement space than the one occupied. Methods of game play may involve each player moving an assigned pair of player movers on the pathway by moving each player mover individually and separately according to separate movement tokens selected by the player until both player movers of the assigned pair have been moved to occupy the same movement space, and then moving the pair of player movers together as a unit thereafter.

1 . A method of game play, the method comprising: 
 providing a game board having a pathway consisting of a plurality of interconnected movement spaces, a plurality of pairs of corresponding player movers, a plurality of movement tokens each including movement indicia, and a plurality of game cards each including instructional indicia;    each player moving an assigned pair of corresponding player movers on the pathway by: 
 (a) moving a first player mover of the assigned pair individually and separately from the second player mover of the assigned pair according to the movement indicia of a first movement token selected by the player;  
 (b) moving the second player mover of the assigned pair individually and separately from the first player mover of the assigned pair according to the movement indicia of a second movement token selected by the player;  
 (c) repeating (a) and (b) until both player movers of the assigned pair have been moved to occupy the same movement space; and  
 (d) after both player movers of the assigned pair have been moved to occupy the same movement space, moving both player movers of the assigned pair together as a unit according to the movement indicia of a movement token selected by the player; and  
   moving one or both of a pair of corresponding player movers according to the instructional indicia on a player-selected game card.    
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1 , further including, prior to each player moving assigned pair of corresponding player movers, distributing a predetermined number of movement tokens to each player.  
   
   
       3 . The method of  claim 1 , further including, subsequent to moving one or both of a pair of corresponding player movers according to the instructional indicia on a player-selected game card, discarding the game card.  
   
   
       4 . The method of  claim 1 , further including, prior to moving one or both of a pair of corresponding player movers according to the instructional indicia on a player-selected game card, drawing the game card.  
   
   
       5 . The method of  claim 4 , further including, subsequent to drawing the game card, selecting one of a plurality of drawn game cards during a turn at a player's option.  
   
   
       6 . The method of  claim 1 , further including, subsequent to moving one or both of a pair of corresponding player movers according to the instructional indicia on a player-selected game card, 
 repeating (a) and (b) until both player movers of the assigned pair have been moved to occupy the same movement space; and    after both player movers of the assigned pair have been moved to occupy the same movement space, moving both player movers of the assigned pair together as a unit according to the movement indicia of a movement token selected by the player.    
   
   
       7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein moving one or both of a selected pair of corresponding player movers according to the instructional indicia on a player-selected game card includes moving one or both of an opponent's corresponding player movers according to the instructional indicia on the player-selected game card.  
   
   
       8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein each player moving an assigned pair of corresponding player movers on the pathway further includes: 
 (e) moving one or more of the an assigned pair of corresponding player movers to one of a plurality of predetermined movement spaces if no movement tokens are available for selection.    
   
   
       9 . The method of  claim 8 , further including, subsequent to moving one or more of the an assigned pair of corresponding player movers to one of a plurality of predetermined movement spaces, drawing a game card.  
   
   
       10 . Apparatus for a game, comprising: 
 a game board having a pathway consisting of a plurality of interconnected movement spaces;    a plurality of pairs of corresponding player movers;    a plurality of movement tokens each including movement indicia; and    a plurality of game cards each including instructional indicia;    wherein the indicia of at least one game card indicates separating a pair of corresponding player movers occupying the same movement space by moving a first player mover of the pair to a different movement space than the one occupied.    
   
   
       11 . The apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein the instructional indicia of the at least one game card further indicates a predetermined movement space to which the first player mover of the corresponding pair player movers is moved.  
   
   
       12 . The apparatus of  claim 10  wherein the instructional indicia of the at least one game card also indicates moving the second player mover of the pair to a different movement space than the one occupied and the one to which the first player mover is moved.  
   
   
       13 . The apparatus of  claim 12 , wherein the instructional indicia of the at least one game card further indicates one or more predetermined movement spaces to which one or more of the first and the second player mover of the corresponding pair player movers are moved.  
   
   
       14 . The apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein the instructional indicia of the at least one game card further indicates that the player determines the one or more movement spaces to which one or both player movers of a corresponding pair of player movers is moved.  
   
   
       15 . The apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein the indicia of at least one game card indicates moving one of a pair of corresponding player movers to occupy the same movement space as the other.