Digital promotion processing system including messenger bot based trivia question and related methods

A digital promotion processing server comprising:

• a processor and an associated memory cooperating therewith to
• operate a messenger bot permitting a two-way dialog between each respective user of a plurality of users and the messenger bot to
• for each respective user, within the two-way dialog of the messenger bot, generate a dialog on a display of an associated mobile wireless communications device from among a plurality thereof, prompting each respective user to answer a trivia question within an allotted time period displayed on the display in the form of a countdown timer adjacent the trivia question, the trivia question being answered by providing input within the dialog via the messenger bot, from the associated respective mobile wireless communications device and having the display displaying the dialog thereon, the trivia question having a difficulty level associated therewith,
• obtain answers to the trivia question from the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices, and
• for each respective user, display on the display, within the dialog via the messenger bot, on each respective one of the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices, the answers obtained to the trivia question from other respective ones of the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices,
• determine a first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly based upon the answers obtained by the messenger bot,
• determine an elapsed time between determining the first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly and prompting each of the respective users to answer the trivia question,
• generate a digital promotion having an initial redeemable value and for a given product,
• adjust the initial redeemable value of the digital promotion based upon the difficultly level and the elapsed time so that the initial redeemable value increases with a higher difficulty level and the redeemable value decreases as the elapsed time increases, and
• communicate, within the dialog via the messenger bot on the display, the digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications device associated with the first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly.

A method of processing a digital promotion comprising:

• using a digital promotion server to
• operate a messenger bot permitting a two-way dialog between each respective user of a plurality of users and the messenger bot to
• for each respective user, within the two-way dialog of the messenger bot, generate a dialog on a display of an associated mobile wireless communications device from among a plurality thereof prompting each respective user to answer a trivia question within an allotted time period displayed on the display in the form of a countdown timer adjacent the trivia question, the trivia question being answered by providing input within the dialog via the messenger bot, from the associated respective mobile wireless communications device, the trivia question having a difficulty level associated therewith,
• obtain answers to the trivia question from the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices, and
• for each respective user, display on the display, within the dialog via the messenger bot, on each respective one of the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices, the answers obtained to the trivia question from other respective ones of the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices,
• determine a first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly based upon the answers obtained by the messenger bot,
• determine an elapsed time between determining the first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly and prompting each of the respective users to answer the trivia question,
• generate a digital promotion having an initial redeemable value and for a given product,
• adjust the initial redeemable value of the digital promotion based upon the difficultly level and the elapsed time so that the initial redeemable value increases with a higher difficulty level and the redeemable value decreases as the elapsed time increases, and
• communicate, within the dialog via the messenger bot on the display, the digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications device associated with the first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• operating a messenger bot permitting a two-way dialog between each respective user of a plurality of users and the messenger bot to
• for each respective user, within the two-way dialog, generate a dialog on a display of an associated mobile wireless communications device from among a plurality thereof, prompting each respective user to answer a trivia question within an allotted time period displayed on the display in the form of a countdown timer adjacent the trivia question, the trivia question being answered from the associated respective mobile wireless communications device, the trivia question having a difficulty level associated therewith,
• obtain answers to the trivia question from the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices, and
• for each respective user, display on the display, within the dialog via the messenger bot, on each respective one of the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices, the answers obtained to the trivia question from other respective ones of the plurality of mobile wireless communications devices;
• determining a first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly based upon the answers obtained by the messenger bot;
• determining an elapsed time between determining the first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly and prompting each of the respective users to answer the trivia question;
• generating a digital promotion having an initial redeemable value associated therewith and for a given product;
• adjusting the initial redeemable value of the digital promotion based upon the difficultly level and the elapsed time so that the initial redeemable value increases with a higher difficulty level and the redeemable value decreases as the elapsed time increases;
• and
• communicating, within the dialog via the messenger bot on the display, the digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications device associated with the first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly.