Code game business promotion method
OwnerRonald G. Hageninventor
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Abstract
A method of promoting business includes the use of a customer interactive message decoding game. The method involves identifying a prize winning message, providing separately a static code in a promotional area, such as an in-store display, a newspaper or magazine insert or product packaging, and distributing a number of game pieces, at least one of which includes a complementary code for deciphering the message by combining it with the static code, without which the message could not be readily discerned.
Claims17
A business promotion method utilizing an interactive code game, the method comprising the steps of:
- identifying a prize winning message;
- providing a static code in a designated promotional area, the static code defining a portion of the prize winning message such that the prize winning message is not discernable from the static code alone;
- and
- distributing a plurality of game pieces to customers wherein at least one game piece differs from the other game pieces and includes a complementary code defining a portion of the prize winning message complementing the static code such that the game piece can be used to decipher the code and produce the prize winning message.
A business promotion method utilizing an interactive code game, the method comprising the steps of:
- identifying a prize winning message;
- providing a static code on a first substrate in a designated promotional area, the static code defining a portion of the prize winning message such that the prize winning message is not discernable from the static code alone;
- and
- distributing a plurality of game pieces to customers wherein at least one game piece differs from the other game pieces and includes a complementary code on a second substrate, said complementary code defining a portion of the prize winning message complementing the static code such that the game piece can be used to decipher the code and produce the prize winning message;
- wherein at least one of the first and second substrates is transparent so that the substrates are placed in overlying registration with one another with the transparent substrate on top of the other substrate to combine the static and complementary codes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.