Method and system for playing a bowling game in combination with a game of football as a secondary game
AssigneeJam-N Enterprises, Inc.
InventorJames Charles Mruk
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Abstract
A method and system for playing a bowling game in combination with a football-type game is disclosed. The method and system comprising the steps of initiating a conventional bowling game, filling at least one bowling frame, evaluating a bowling score for at least one bowler, generating a football play result based on the bowling score, displaying a football position based on the football play result, continuing the bowling game and generating the football play result until a 10th frame of bowling is completed, determining a winning football team, and providing an award to the winning football team.
Claims19
A method of playing a physical bowling game played on at least one lane using a bowling ball and pins in which bowlers are permitted to participate in a secondary football-type game by election, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) accepting input from the at least one bowler to initiate a physical bowling game, wherein the at least one bowler forms at least one bowling team and participates in a secondary football-type game in combination with the physical bowling game;
- (b) filling at least one bowling frame for the at least one bowler;
- (c) calculate a bowling score for a completed bowling frame for the at least one bowler by executing machine readable code stored on a memory operatively coupled to a processor of a scoring computer and using data received from an at least one automatic pin spotter, the machine readable code configured to enable the processor to determine the bowling score for the at least one bowler;
- (d) generating a football play result based on the bowling score wherein the football play result is determined by the performance of the at least one bowler on a frame-by-frame basis and selected from a pre-programed table of football play results such that a better bowling score corresponds to a better football play result by executing machine readable code stored on the memory operatively coupled to the processor of the scoring computer, the machine readable code configured to enable the processor to determine the football play result for the at least one bowler;
- (e) displaying, on a frame-by-frame basis, both a football position and a football score that correspond to the football play result selected from the pre-programed table of football play results on at least one display device;
- (f) continuing the bowling game and generating the football play result on a frame-by-frame basis until a 10th frame of bowling is completed;
- (g) determining a final bowling score for the at least one bowler;
- (h) determining a final football game score based on the final bowling score for the at least one bowler;
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- (i) determining a winning football team based on the final football game score and;
- (j) awarding a prize to the winning football team.
A scoring system for a physical bowling game played on at least one lane using a bowling ball and pins comprising:
- at least one display device;
- at least one automatic pinspotter;
- at least one scoring computer operatively coupled to said at least one display device and said at least one automatic pinspotter;
- said at least one scoring computer comprising:
- a memory;
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- a processor operatively coupled to said at least one display device and said memory, said memory having a machine readable code stored therein, said machine readable code configured to enable said processor to:
- (a) accept input from at least one bowler to initiate a physical bowling game, wherein the at least one bowler forms at least one bowling team and participates in a secondary football-type game in combination with the physical bowling game;
- (b) calculate a bowling score for a completed bowling frame using data received from the at least one automatic pinspotter;
- (c) display the bowling score on the at least one display device;
- (d) generate a football play result based on the bowling score wherein the football play result is determined by the performance of the at least one bowler on a frame-by-frame basis and selected from a pre-programed table of football play results such that a better bowling score corresponds to a better football play result;
- (e) display, on a frame-by-frame basis, both a football position and a football score that correspond to the football play result selected from the pre-programed table of football play results on the at least one display device;
- (f) continue the bowling game and generate the football play result on a frame-by-frame basis until a 10th frame of bowling is completed;
- (g) determine a final bowling score for the at least one bowler and display the final bowling score on the at least one display device;
- (h) determine a final football game score based on the final bowling score for the at least one bowler;
- (i) determine a winning football team based on the final football game score;
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- (j) award a prize to the at least one bowler associated with the winning football team.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.