ADVERTISEMENT GAME

• US 20120309505A1
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hanlon, John
• Original Assignee: Hanlon, John
• Inventors: Hanlon, John
• Application Number:
  US13/485,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20120309505A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3262 Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

A game and a method of playing a game for more than one player where at least one segment of an advertisement is played simultaneously to each of the players and where the advertisement segment advertises at least does not immediately identify anything being advertised. The winning segment player for each segment is the player who is the first player to identify at least one of the advertised things in the advertisement without seeing or hearing in the segment anything being advertised. The game can be televised. The game can include assigning a fixed value, which can include, but is not limited to, money or points, to each passing second, fraction thereof or multiple thereof.

Claims

1. A method for playing a televised game, said method comprising providing three contestants, displaying a product advertisement segment simultaneously to each of said contestants, and awarding a dollar amount to the contestant who is the first contestant to correctly identify the product being advertised in the advertisement segment.

2. A method for playing a game, said game comprising providing more than one player;

said game further comprising providing at least one segment of an advertisement simultaneously to each of said more than one players, said advertisement advertising at least one advertised thing, said segment at least not immediately identifying any of the at least one advertised things, said game further comprising identifying the winning segment player for each segment as the player who is the first player to identify at least one of the advertised things in said advertisement without seeing or hearing in said segment any of the at least one advertised things, and rewarding said winning segment player.

3. The method of claim 2, said method further comprising televising said game.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said advertisement segment is in video.

5. The method of claim 2, said method further comprising providing said advertisement in at least one electronic transmission.

6. The method of claim 2, said method further comprising allocating a fixed dollar amount for each second that said segment plays.

7. The method of claim 6, said method further comprising adding said fixed dollar amount to each second that passes before a player gives notice.

8. The method of claim 7, said method further comprising rewarding said winning segment player with the cash value of the fixed dollar amount that had accumulated at the time that said winning segment player gave notice.

9. The method of claim 8, said method further comprising identifying the game winner as the player who has accumulated the highest dollar amount at a fixed time of play.

10. The method of claim 7, said method further comprising, after a game has ended, giving each player cash in the amount of each player'"'"'s own fixed dollar amount accumulation.

11. The method of claim 2, said rewarding further comprising awarding points.

12. The method of claim 2, said method further comprising providing a bonus to the segment winner.

13. The method of claim 12, said method further comprising identifying at least one segment as a bonus segment before the segment begins playing.

14. The method of claim 2, said method further comprising enabling each said player to give notice when said player wants to try to identify an advertised product or service.

15. The method of claim 14, said method further comprising stopping said segment when a player gives notice.

16. The method of claim 15, said method further comprising allowing the player who gives notice to guess at least one product or service being identified in said segment.

17. The method of claim 16, said method further comprising continuing the playing of the segment if the player who gives notice does not guess at least one correct product or service being advertised.

18. The method of claim 17, said method further comprising enabling the at least one player who has not already given notice for the segment to give notice when said player wants to try to identify an advertised product or service.

19. A game, said game comprising at least one segment of a moving commercial, said segment being at least stoppable and re-startable, at least one audio and/or visual player to provide said at least one moving commercial segment, and at least one timer.

20. The game of claim 19 wherein said at least one audio and/or visual player further comprises at least one television.

21. The game of claim 19 wherein said at least one audio and/or visual player further comprises at least one iPod.

22. The game of claim 19 wherein said at least audio and/or visual player further comprises at least one memory card or flash drive.