System and method for awarding prizes
First Claim
1. A method for awarding prizes to contestants in a contest that includes a plurality of sub-contests wherein the method comprises:
- awarding points to contestants based in part on each respective contestant'"'"'s correct responses to a first set of sub-contests;
awarding points to contestants based in part on each respective contestant'"'"'s correct responses to a second set of sub-contests;
creating a ranking of the contestants based on points awarded to each respective contestant from highest number of points awarded to lowest number of points awarded;
weighting the number of points awarded for each sub-contest so that the ranking approximately correlates to the contestants'"'"' performance on the second set of sub-contests; and
awarding at least one prize to a contestant based at least in part on the ranking.
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Abstract
A system and method for awarding prizes in a contest consisting of multiple sub-contests in which prizes are awarded to contestants based on the contestants'"'"' relative skill, even where some of the sub-contests may be known to some of the contestants in advance of the contest. Points are awarded to contestants for correct responses to the sub-contests. Contestants are ranked by the number of points they were awarded. The number of points awarded in the various sub-contests, or the weighting, causes the ranking to approximately correlate to the contestants'"'"' performance on a particular sub-set of the sub-contests. Sub-grouping of contestants and multi-tiered prizing structures are also employed.
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30 Claims
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1. A method for awarding prizes to contestants in a contest that includes a plurality of sub-contests wherein the method comprises:
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awarding points to contestants based in part on each respective contestant'"'"'s correct responses to a first set of sub-contests;
awarding points to contestants based in part on each respective contestant'"'"'s correct responses to a second set of sub-contests;
creating a ranking of the contestants based on points awarded to each respective contestant from highest number of points awarded to lowest number of points awarded;
weighting the number of points awarded for each sub-contest so that the ranking approximately correlates to the contestants'"'"' performance on the second set of sub-contests; and
awarding at least one prize to a contestant based at least in part on the ranking. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for awarding prizes to contestants in an interactive television game show comprising:
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a storage medium that stores a pre-recorded game show having pre-recorded puzzles;
a storage medium that stores a pool of bonus puzzles;
an integrating device that integrates at least a portion of the pool of bonus puzzles with the pre-recorded game show to create a combined signal;
a transmitting device that transmits the combined signal;
a plurality of engines that receive the combined signal and present different bonus puzzles to different contestants along with the pre-recorded puzzles; and
a response network that receives communications from contestants that are associated with the pre-recorded puzzles and the bonus puzzles and awards points to contestants for correct responses to the pre-recorded puzzles and the bonus puzzles wherein the number of points awarded for the correct responses is weighted to sufficiently insure that a ranking of contestants based on a number of points awarded substantially correlates with a relative performance of the contestants on the bonus puzzles, and wherein the response network determines a contestants to be a prize winner based at least in part on the ranking. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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