Interactive game show and method for achieving interactive communication therewith
OwnerRobert Bermaninventor
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Abstract
By providing an interactive communication system whereby individuals are able to electronically select at least one possible outcome of a plurality of outcomes of a future event, individuals are able to participate in the outcome of that event and possible share in a prize award associated with the event. In the preferred embodiment, individualys forming the home audience of a televised game show are able to electronically communicate a series of random numbers using their telephones to participate in possible winning the prize awards of the show. In addition, both on-camera game participants and the studio audience also participate and have the abililty to win prizes.
Claims15
A method for providing a televisable game show in which the home viewing audience and the studio audience are able to directly participate by having a chance to win prize awards comprising the steps of:
- A. selecting at least two contestants;
- B. establishing a pool comprising a fixed quantity of unique indicia;
- C. requiring one contestant to select and earn the right to have one of the indicia in the pool, placed in that contestant's personal indicia set, said indicia set comprising a fixed number of available spaces, said fixed number being substantially smaller than the total number of available indicia;
- D. requiring each other contestant to individually select and earn the right to have one indicia from the pool placed in that contestant's personal indicia set;
- E. repeating the indicia selection and earning steps for a pre-determined time period or until the contestants have filled the spaces available in their personal indicia set;
- F. randomly selecting a game winning indicia set from the entire pool of indicia, said game winning indicia set having the same number of indicia as the personal indicia set of each contestant;
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- G. awarding a grand prize to a participating contestant having a personal indicia set which matches in its entirety the randomly generated, game winning indicia set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.