Systems and methods for playing electronic games and sharing digital media

A system for inviting a connection to play a particular post, the system comprising:

• a game server for storing posts and generating webpages, the game server operatively connected to an application instance provided to a particular user for playing posts, wherein the application instance is configured for:
• receiving a selection of a particular post to be transmitted to a particular connection at the application instance associated with the particular user, wherein the particular post comprises a particular electronic media file and a series of data items representing parsed characters of a particular phrase;
• transmitting a request to the game server for generating a link corresponding to a webpage associated with the particular post;
• receiving, based on the request transmitted to the game server:
• a) a link generated by the game server, the link representing an address to a webpage comprising an HTML data representation of the particular post, wherein the game server converted the particular post into HTML data;
• and b) a thumbnail representation of the particular post, the thumbnail representation of the particular post created by the game server;
• receiving a selection of a method of electronically transmitting an invitation to play the particular post to the particular connection at the computing device associated with the particular user;
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• in response to receiving the selection of the method of electronically transmitting the invitation to play the particular post to the particular connection, facilitating transmission of the invitation via the selected method to the particular connection, wherein the invitation comprises the thumbnail representation of the particular post and the link corresponding to the particular post.

A method comprising the steps of:

• receiving a selection of a particular post to be transmitted to a particular connection at a computing device associated with a particular user, wherein the particular post comprises media, represented by an electronic media file, and one or more characters of a phrase associated with the media;
• in response to receiving the selection of the particular post to be transmitted:
• converting the particular post into HTML;
• generating a webpage comprising the HTML for playing the particular post, wherein the webpage for playing the particular post comprises HTML data representing:
• the media of the particular post;
• one or more blanks, wherein each blank corresponds to each of the one or more characters of the phrase associated with the media of the particular post;
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• a plurality of selectable characters;
• and
• generating a link corresponding to the webpage for playing the particular post;
• receiving a selection of a method of electronically transmitting an invitation to play the particular post to the particular connection at the computing device associated with the particular user;
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• in response to receiving the selection of the method of electronically transmitting the invitation to play the particular post to the particular connection, facilitating transmission of the invitation via the selected method to the particular connection over a telecommunications network, wherein the invitation comprises a thumbnail representation of the particular post and the link corresponding to the particular post.

A system for creating an interactive invitation, the system comprising a game server operatively connected to one or more application instances and at least one telecommunications network, the game server configured for:

• receiving an electronic media file and an electronic representation of a phrase associated with the electronic media file from a particular application instance installed on a particular computing device, wherein the phrase comprises one or more characters in a particular order;
• combining the electronic media file and the electronic representation of the phrase into a particular post and storing the particular post in memory;
• converting the electronic media file and the representation of the phrase into HTML format;
• generating a link and webpage comprising the HTML format of the electronic media file and the representation of the phrase;
• transmitting the link to the webpage to the particular application instance for transmission to a computing device via an electronic message transmitted via the telecommunications network, wherein, upon translation of the HTML by a browser of the computing device, the website displays the media represented by the electronic media file, a series of blanks, wherein each blank of the series of blanks corresponds to one of the one or ore more characters of the phrase, and a plurality of selectable characters;
• receiving a selection of a particular character of the plurality of selectable characters on the website;
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• in response to receiving the selection of the particular character of the plurality of selectable characters on the website, displaying the particular character in one or more of the series of blanks on the webpage.

A system for playing a mobile application game outside of the mobile application, the system comprising:

• (a) a computer database containing data for:
• 1) a plurality of modified digital media files;
• and 2) a plurality of profiles, each of the plurality of profiles associated with an application instance,
• (i) wherein each of the plurality of modified digital media files is received from an instance of an application downloaded to a mobile device;
• (ii) wherein each of the modified digital media files comprises a digital media file and a string of one or more alphanumeric characters;
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• (iii) wherein each profile of the plurality of profiles comprises an indication of the instance of the application downloaded on the mobile device associated with that profile;
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• (b) a computer server operatively connected to the computer database, the computer server programmed to:
• (i) receive from a particular instance of the application downloaded to a particular mobile device, an indication to transmit a particular modified digital media file to a particular computing system for playing a game associated with the particular modified digital media file outside of an instance of the application;
• (ii) in response to receiving the indication to transmit the particular modified digital media file, retrieve the particular modified digital media file from the computer database;
• (iii) convert the particular modified digital media file to HTML;
• (iv) generate a link to a website comprising the converted modified digital media file;
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• (v) transmit the link to the particular instance of the application for transmission to the computing system based on an identifier associated with a particular user.