Physical-virtual game board and content delivery system

A method for use by an entity to provide destination related engagement experiences to a person in correlation with an interactive game board, comprising the steps of:

• providing access to a remote game play database maintained by, for, or otherwise in relationship to the entity, where the remote entity game play database comprises person identifying data and resulting game play data, where the resulting game play data is determined at least in part from current game play data determined during two or more sessions of game play conducted by the person using an interactive game board;
• providing or otherwise using the interactive game board made available for use by the person to conduct the two or more sessions of game play, where the interactive game board is in communications with the remote database, where the interactive game board uses one or more game pieces each comprising game piece identifying data, and where the interactive game board tracks a current location of the one or more identifiable game pieces being moved about on the game board during game play, and where for each of the two or more sessions of game play the interactive game board determines current game play data comprising:
• data associating the remote person identifying data with the current game piece identifying data of at least one of the one or more game pieces being used by the person for conducting a current session of game play;
• the current location of the person's associated one or more game piece's on the interactive game board;
• other current game play data provided to the remote entity game play database as resulting game play data in relation to the person comprising any one of or any combination of accumulated game play, awarded points, achievements, and accumulated scores, where accumulated game play includes information provided by players in response to game clues, questions, messages and other communications;
• communicating between the remote game play database the interactive game board to exchange digital information comprising any one of or any combination of audio, pictures, video, text, game play data or otherwise data for providing or causing any of a visual, auditory, tactile, or olfactory experiences;
• tracking one or more destination activities or purchases of a person when the person is visiting a destination, and
• providing at least one engagement experience to the person where:
• the engagement experience is provided to the person while the person is visiting the destination and after the person plays at least one game using the interactive game board, where the determination of the destination engagement experience is based at least in part upon any of the resulting game play data;
• the engagement experience is provided as a sales benefit to the person when purchasing entity or destination products or services, where the sales benefit is determined based at least in part upon any of the resulting game play data, or
• the engagement experience is provided to the person substantially while playing at least one game using the interactive game board after the person visits the destination, where the determination of the interactive game board provided engagement experience is based at least in part upon any of the tracked destination activities or purchases.

A method for use by an entity to provide a person with one or more engagement experiences, where the timing of the availability of the engagement experiences is in relation to the release to the public of a series of related story-telling content, where the story-telling content comprises any one of or any combination of audio, pictures, video, or textual information including movies, shows or books, comprising the steps of:

• providing access to a remote game play database maintained by, for, or otherwise in relationship to the entity, where the remote entity game play database comprises person identifying data and resulting game play data, where the resulting game play data is determined at least in part from current game play data determined during two or more sessions of game play conducted by the person using an interactive game board;
• providing or otherwise using the interactive game board made available for use by the person to conduct the two or more sessions of game play, where the interactive game board is in communications with the remote database, where the interactive game board uses one or more game pieces each comprising game piece identifying data, and where the interactive game board tracks a current location of the one or more identifiable game pieces being moved about on the game board during game play, and where for each of the two or more sessions of game play the interactive game board determines current game play data comprising:
• data associating the remote person identifying data with the current game piece identifying data of at least one of the one or more game pieces being used by the person for conducting a current session of game play;
• the current location of the person's associated one or more game piece's on the interactive game board;
• other current game play data provided to the remote entity game play database as resulting game play data in relation to the person comprising any one of or any combination of accumulated game play, awarded points, achievements, and accumulated scores, where accumulated game play includes information provided by players in response to game clues, questions, messages and other communications;
• communicating between the remote game play database and the interactive game board to exchange digital information comprising any one of or any combination of audio, pictures, video, text, game play data or otherwise data for providing or causing any of a visual, auditory, tactile, or olfactory experiences;
• tracking the release of the story-telling content to the public, and
• using the interactive game board to make available for experiencing at least one engagement experience in relation to the release of at least one story-telling content in the series of story-telling content, where the relation is any of before the release, substantially during the release, or after the release of the at least one story-telling content.