Wagering Event-Driven Game for Sporting Events
OwnerStephen J. Renierinventor
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Abstract
The invention is a gambling game to be played while observing a sporting event live, remotely or otherwise. The variations of the game differ slightly from one sport to the next, but all incorporate a wagering element and the passing of tokens as certain positive and negative aspects of the sporting event occur. In this particular embodiment, physical chips are used as tokens, however, in other embodiments a token can be anything representing an event including, but not limited to, playing cards or an electronic symbol of a chip if playing in an online/application space via a smart phone app or computer.
Claims4
A method for playing an event-based game comprising:
- observing a viewing event;
- distributing tokens representing positive and negative events that can occur during the viewing event;
- assigning values to the tokens;
- and
- executing the corresponding positive or negative values of a token on the player in possession of the token when a triggering event occurs if the token's corresponding event occurs before the triggering event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.