Handwear devices and methods for providing an interactive play experience

A method of providing interactive game play within a water play environment, the method comprising:

• providing handwear configured to transmit at least one wireless signal in response to activation of the handwear by a play participant during an interactive game;
• providing a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors configured to receive the at least one wireless signal from the handwear when the handwear is within a particular distance thereof;
• providing a plurality of electronically actuatable devices in communication with the plurality of sensors, wherein at least one of the plurality of electronically actuatable devices is disposed in, on, or around a body of water, and wherein the at least one electronically actuatable device is configured to provide a water play effect;
• providing a database storing at least one association between the handwear and at least one of the at least one wireless signal, at least one of the plurality of sensors, and at least one of a plurality of play effects associated with the plurality of electronically actuatable devices;
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• providing a control module in communication with the database, the plurality of sensors and the plurality of electronically actuatable devices, the control module being configured to, based at least on the at least one association in the database, selectively instruct one or more of the plurality of electronically actuatable devices to provide one or more of the plurality of play effects in response to one or more of the plurality of sensors receiving the at least one wireless signal from the handwear.

A system for providing interactive game play within a water play environment, the system comprising:

• handwear means for transmitting at least one wireless signal in response to activation of said handwear means by a play participant during an interactive game;
• means for receiving the at least one wireless signal from said handwear means when said handwear means is within a particular distance thereof;
• means for actuating a plurality of play effects including at least one water play effect, said actuating means being in communication with said receiving means and being disposed in, on, or around a body of water;
• means for storing an association between said handwear means and at least one of the at least one wireless signal, said receiving means, and at least one of the plurality of play effects;
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• means for instructing, based at least on the association, one or more of said means for actuating to trigger one or more of the plurality of play effects in response to one or more of said receiving means receiving the at least one wireless signal from said handwear means.