Interactive game

• US 20040127273A1
• Filed: 12/15/2003
• Published: 07/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aaron J. Englert, Anthony D. Bamonte, Thomas L. Schleuning
• Original Assignee: Aaron J. Englert, Anthony D. Bamonte, Thomas L. Schleuning
• Inventors: Schleuning, Thomas L., Bamonte, Anthony D., Englert, Aaron J.
• Application Number:
  US10/737,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20040127273A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/7
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/00 Balls with special arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2457 Display screens, e.g. monitors, video displays
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/247 audible, e.g. using a loudspeaker
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/183 electric

Abstract

An interactive game for a number of players employs a device that is passed from player to player and contains a speaker and/or visual display, a memory coupled to the speaker and/or display containing stored inquiries or directions, and a switch for activating the memory and causing an inquiry or direction to be communicated to a player via the speaker and/or display. After a first recipient player has responded to an inquiry or direction, the device is again passed from player to player to cause another inquiry or direction to be communicated to a second recipient for response. Scores of the responses of the players may be kept. The inquiries or directions may be related to any subject category or topic, such as social, political and/or educational topics.

Claims

1. An interactive game for play by a number of persons comprising a device to be passed from person to person and that communicates to a recipient person a question and/or direction to be responded to by the recipient person.

2. An interactive game for play by a number of persons comprising a device to be passed from hand to hand, said device containing a speaker and/or visual display, a memory containing stored inquiries or directions coupled to, said speaker and/or display, and means for activating said memory and causing an inquiry or direction to be communicated via said speaker and/or display.

3. A game as set forth in claim 2 wherein said device comprises a ball to be tossed from one player to another and said means is activated by a recipient player.

4. A method of playing an interactive game among a plurality of players and employing the device of claim 2, comprising the steps of passing the device from a first player to a second player and activating the device to communicate an inquiry or direction to the recipient player and, following response by the recipient player to the inquiry or direction, passing the device from the second player to the first player or a third player and activating the device to communicate a different inquiry or direction to the recipient player, and repeating the foregoing steps.

5. A game as set forth in claim 2 wherein the memory contains inquiries or directions related to a subject category selected from sports, politics, religion, social issues, education, history, geography, mathematics, sciences, world affairs, morals, ethics and trivia.