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US 8,683,721 B1Granted
Greeting card with game
AssigneeAmerican Greetings Corporation
InventorsSharon Bogdanski, Melissa Flesher, Mike Gali, Karen Rowlett, Annie Deckerd
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Abstract
The present disclosure and related inventions are directed to a greeting card or other social expression product which is combined with a simple game with sound and light effects. The greeting card combines a traditional paper greeting card, a plastic-molded game encasement and game board, lever, and game pieces with various electronic components to create an interactive greeting card with playable game that causes sound and light effects.
Claims20
A greeting card comprising:
- a greeting card body having a front panel attached to a back panel along a fold line, the front and back panels each having an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface;
- an interactive game attached to the greeting card body, the interactive game comprising:
- a transparent sealed game body having a front surface and a back surface and a perimeter surface therebetween;
- one or more u-shaped channels contained between the front and back surface;
- a lever;
- and one or more game balls;
- a sound module operative to store and replay at least one audio file;
- a light module operative to illuminate one or more LED lights;
- an on/off switch;
- at least one additional switch which causes playback of at least one audio file upon the one or more game balls entering the one or more u-shaped channels.
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A greeting card comprising:
- a two panel greeting card body;
- a plastic moulded game attached to a front surface of the two panel greeting card body;
- the plastic moulded game having an enclosed cavity, a plurality of open-topped channels contained within the enclosed cavity, a ball launch mechanism, and two or more balls;
- a sound module operative to store and playback a plurality of audio files;
- a light module operative to illuminate one or more LED lights;
- an on/off switch which provides power to the sound and light modules;
- a plurality of switches contained and concealed behind each of the plurality of open-topped channels contained within the enclosed cavity such that when the on/off switch is in the on position and one of the two or more balls land in one of the plurality of open-topped channels, one of the plurality of audio files is replayed and at least one of the one or more LED lights flash.
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A greeting card comprising:
- a game comprising a transparent enclosed cavity having two or more baskets contained therein, two or more game balls contained therein and a lever for projecting the two or more game balls into the two or more baskets;
- a sound module operative to store and playback two or more audio files;
- wherein when one of the two or more game balls lands in one of the two or more baskets, the sound module initiates playback of one of the two or more audio files.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.