Patent US 5,435,565

A board game relating to stress comprising a plurality of game pieces each representing a player; at least one die; a plurality of stacks of situation cards with the stacks representing categories of stressful situations, cheerful situations, and combinations thereof and with each situation card describing an action required of a player; a plurality of certificates with each certificate representing a number of years of a player's life with certificates being accumulated and forfeited based on situations encountered; a stack of anti-stress cards with each card representing a way of avoiding a loss of certificates when encountering stressful situations requiring the forfeiture thereof; and a game board having a starting space thereon representing the initiation of a journey through life, an ending space thereon representing the completion of the journey, and a plurality of situation spaces therebetween representing stressful categories, cheerful categories, and combinations thereof with each category represented on the board keyed to a corresponding stack of situation cards of the same category.