The player may also decline to purchase the lease. The funds required to buy the lease are paid to the bank and the banker issues the oil lease card FIG. A player landing on a lease owned by someone else must pay as a royalty to the lease owner the amount shown on the lease card. If active wells are on the property, additional royalties must be paid with the schedule of the amounts to be paid shown on the quick calculation chart 60 shown in FIG.
The quick calculation chart will speed up determination of amounts due. If a person fails to see someone on their lease until after the next person has rolled then the player forfeits their right to collect royalties. A player who has purchased all the spaces to a family of leases may drill for oil by paying the bank the amount indicated on the lease card. Each separate family of properties has its own specified colored area on playing surface 29 indicating the field of oil associated with the properties.
For illustration purposes, area 61 is shown in the drawings as having dashed lines to more clearly depict the boundaries of area On an actual board area 61 will be depicted in a solid color with the remaining areas or fields associated with other families of property depicted by other colors.
Each oil field is defined by lines which terminate at the oil pipe A well is drilled by placing derrick 38 over any drilling site represented by one of the holes 37 located within colored area The drill shaft or rod 44 is then pushed down until the rod stops. In the event one of the movable elements 28 are not located beneath the particular hole drilled, then rod 44 will contact bottom wall 21 FIG. On the other hand, in the event one of the movable elements 28 is located beneath the particular hole drill then rod 44 will contact one of the top surfaces of the movable element indicating oil within the hole.
Referring to FIGS. A plurality of upwardly extending legs 64 and 67 are integrally attached to main body 65 having respectively upper surfaces 66 and Oil derrick 38 is designed to indicate four different conditions associated with a particular hole In the event a movable element 28 is not located below the particular hole drilled, then rod 44 will bottom against wall 21 of the game board.
If a movable element 28 is located beneath the hole being drilled, then rod 44 will contact surface 65, 66 or In either event, rod 44 would not extend all the way to bottom wall 21 and would therefore indicate oil within the well. Derrick 38 is designed to indicate one of four conditions for a particular hole 37 drilled by the derrick. The four conditions being that the hole is a dry hole, or a hole having oil therein such as a fifty barrels per day, one hundred barrel per day or a gusher.
A window 70 is provided on main body 42 FIG. In the event that- rod 44 contacts surface 68 of rod 67, then element 72 is positioned adjacent window 70 with the letter "G" indicating a gusher hole. Likewise, in the event rod 44 contacts either surfaces 66 or 65, then portions 73 and 74 would respectively be provided within the window 70 indicating either a one hundred barrel per day hole or a fifty barrel per day hole.
Extension of rod 44 against wall 21 will automatically position portion 75 within window 70 indicating a dry hole. Well pumpers or dry hole markers 76 FIG. The markers include either a dry hole marker 77 or a well pumper Both markers 77 and pumper 78 have a main body with a projection extending therebeneath to fit into hole Atop the main body of marker 77 and pump 78 is suitable indicia to indicate either that the well is dry or a fifty barrel, one hundred barrel or gusher oil hole.
Once a hole has been drilled and a marker or pumper inserted into the drilled hole, then a player is prohibited from redrilling the particular hole unless the markers and pumpers are removed as described later in this specification. Only one well may be drilled per turn unless the player rolls doubles in which event the player may drill on each successive roll if the player pays and drills in advance of each roll up to a maximum of three times.
The player may also drill more than once in the event the player lands on the areas 80 FIG. The remaining providence cards direct the player to certain locations on the board. Different amounts of royalties are required depending upon whether a hole is a dry hole, a fifty barrel well, a one hundred barrel well or a gusher.
To determine the royalty due, the number of any producing wells on the family of properties should be added together plus one for each lease number. The dollar amount opposite the-t-otal number indicated on the quick calculation chart of FIG. The mortgage value may be determined in the same manner.
For example, in the event Player A owns properties 31, 32 and 33 and has drilled four holes thereon resulting in a dry hole, a fifty barrel well, a one hundred barrel well, and a gusher, then if Player B lands on property 32, the royalty may be calculated as follows: the number of leases three in the family must be added with zero for the dry hole, one for the fifty barrel well, two for the one hundred barrel well, and five for the gusher well resulting in a total of eleven.
If a player has lease spaces of a particular family of properties, the player may mortgage the unimproved leases and receive the amount shown on the lease card.
If there are producing wells in the lease, additional mortgage money can be secured. Wells and spaces cannot be mortgaged at a time. All spaces of a family plus the wells thereon must be mortgaged together. The quick calculation chart will help each player to quickly figure mortgage amounts due. No royalties can be collected on wells or leases while a lease is mortgaged and the lease card must be turned face down by the player.
Futher, a player with mortgage property may not drill new wells until the lease and wells are unmortgaged. The stack of providence cards 40 may be printed in two colors. A player selects the top card on the deck when the player lands on either space 80 or A player selects the top card-when the player lands on space 80 or 81 and must then follow the instructions on the card.
In - the event the color is yellow then the player may refuse to take the card whereas a blue card must be taken if the player lands on either space 80 or The card is placed on the bottom of the deck after the requested action is completed. If a player lands on space 90 FIG. If a player lands on space 91 FIG. If a player lands on space 92 FIG.
If the player lands on space 92 and does not have-any leases then his token is simply left on space 92 until the player's next turn. The holes 37 associated with space 92 may be drilled only when the player is instructed to by a card from stack Private transactions may be made between two players for the sale or trade of unimproved leases or providence cards for whatever cash and property is agreed upon. Trade can only be made on undrilled leases and when it is one of the trading party's turn.
Further, no player can loan or borrow from another player and the bank is the only party who can extend funds to a player by mortgage. A player is bankrupt whenever the player cannot pay the bank or another player what is owed.
When this occurs, a player must forfeit everything the player has to whomever the player cannot pay. If the leases go to the bank, the bank can auction the leases to the highest bidder but all producing wells must be moved first. The buyer can then activate the wells for the normal charge at the normal rate. If the leases go directly to another player, then the player may unmortgage the properties and wells for the normal amount when it is the player's turn.
Before starting the game, the players should decide on how long to play or when the game automatically stops. Three methods of ending the game include playing for a set period of time one hour after the first bankruptcy or after the second bankrupty.
The richest player is the winner when the game ends. Valuation of leases and producing wells can be calculated by using the quick calculation chart. The leases are valued at the cost of all lease spaces owned whereas the producing wells are in accordance with the quick calculation chart. Many variations in the subject game are contemplated and included herein. For example, an alternate embodiment of the movable elements beneath the playing surface would include an element shown in cross section in FIG.
Element 95 includes a cylindrical continuous side wall 96 integrally joined to a wall 97 perpendicular arranged thereto. Element 95 is hollow allowing the derrick rod to extend down to contact either surface 98 or 99 depending upon which surface is facing upward.
A further variation of the movable elements includes varying the diameters of the movable elements. For example, element 95 may be produced in a two inch diameter, three inch diameter and four inch diameter.
Thus as the elements are shaken within the game board prior to the start of the game, the different diameter elements will be located at random beneath the holes Thus, when a player drills a particular hole contacting an element, then the player will be unsure whether drilling of the adjacent hole will likewise result in contacting an element due to the different diameters of elements.
A number of elements 95 may be placed beneath the playing surface. For example four elements 95 of four inch diameter, three elements 95 of three inch diameter, and two elements 95 of two inch diameter may be utilized. While the invention has been illustrated and described in detail in the drawings and foregoing description, the same is to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive in character, it being understood that only the preferred embodiment has been shown and described and that all changes and modifications that come within the spirit of the invention are desired to be protected.
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