Title: Method of playing a psychotherapeutic game

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Abstract: A game for two to six players to provide an indication of a player's present level of maturational functioning by his ability to make his communications understood and his ability to understand others' communications. The game comprises a pack of cards having sixsets. Each set includes six identical cards. Each card of a set bears a respective intentional type word and an associated score value. The intentional words are EXCLAMATION, DEMAND, COMPLAINT, REQUEST, CONCERN and SUGGESTION and the corresponding score values are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively. The game includes a mover for each player and a game board having a plurality of positions to be traversed in sequential steps from a start position to a finish position, with the number of steps taken being a function of the score values accumulated during each hand of play. The game is played by each player being dealt six cards from the pack and thereafter one player striving to communicate the intentional word represented on the top card from his hand by making a verbal or non-verbal expression matching the intentional word on the card. The remaining players strive to identify the expression communicated by drawing from their respective hands a card bearing the intentional word each believes to match the expression communicated by the one player. The current player receives a score value equal to the sum of the score values on the cards drawn by the other players and which match the card chosen by the current player. Each other player accumulates a score value of the current player's chosen card if there is a match.


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