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| Year | Description |
| 2000 | Invention patented by Kenneth Shaw on July 5th, 2000. Abstract: A board game and method for teaching negotiation, advocacy and judicial decision-making skills to players, in which a board is providing having spaces upon which players may randomly, sequentially land. One of the players is determined at the outset to be the judge. The remaining players move about the board. The spaces conform to a plurality of categories, and pre-mixed questions, typically contained on cards, are sequentially read each time someone lands upon the space conforming to that category. The player who lands must answer the question; the other players must determine whether to object. Where an objection occurs, the players are placed in a debaters box, for a debating period. During that period, as determined by the judge, the players debate the issue and the judge, who provides full judicial making authority for the game, determines the protocol and the outcome of the debate. Where the outcome is a success to the objecting player, a letter is forfeited by the non-objecting player to him. Where the outcome is a success to the answering player, then the objecting player also forfeits a letter to the answering player. The winner of the debate also receives the letter that the answering player landed upon. Once a player wins all the letters that spell out a predetermined word, that player is the winner of the game. The categories and questions are predetermined to associate with a plurality of controversial subjects including "check yourself" wherein the players create a scenario in current events that will start a debate; "general information" wherein the players are asked about generally known facts; "race card" wherein the players are asked questions about race; "if" wherein the players are given a fact pattern and asked to present an outcome; and "debate box" where a controversial subject is provided. |
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