Method and System for Conducting and Linking a Televised Game Show with Play of a Lottery Game

• US 20160101349A1
• Filed: 10/12/2015
• Published: 04/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Scientific Games Corporation
• Original Assignee: Scientific Games International Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Saferin, Steve, Rogers, Kyle
• Granted Patent: US 10,092,823 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/64 used for radio or television, e.g. television shows; used in front of an audience
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/409 Data transfer via television network
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0605 Lottery games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3267 Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

A lottery game is linked to a televised game show having a plurality of mini-games followed by a final bonus game. An audience is defined for the game show composed of members from a plurality of different lottery jurisdictions, and audience members are selected for play of a plurality of mini-games conducted during taping of the game show. A plurality of substitute mini-games are separately conducted and taped such that at least one substitute mini-game having a winner from each lottery jurisdiction is taped and stored. One or more winners of the actual mini-games are selected for play of the final bonus. The original version of the taped game show is prepared for broadcast to all of the lottery jurisdictions. The broadcast intended for transmission to any lottery jurisdiction that does not have a winner of an actual mini-game in the original taped version is modified by inserting into the broadcast one of the substitute mini-games having a winner from the respective lottery jurisdiction.

Claims

1. A method for conducting and linking a televised game show with play of a lottery game, the game show having a plurality of mini-games followed by a final bonus game, comprising:

designating an audience for the game show composed of members from a plurality of different lottery jurisdictions, wherein each lottery jurisdiction has a defined minimum number of audience members;

selecting audience members for respective play of a plurality of actual mini-games conducted during taping of the televised game show;

separately conducting and taping a plurality of substitute mini-games such that at least one substitute mini-game having a winner from each lottery jurisdiction is taped and stored;

selecting one or more winners of the actual mini-games for play of the final bonus game and a chance to win an increased prize; and

preparing the taped game show for broadcast to all of the lottery jurisdictions by modifying the broadcast intended for transmission to any of the lottery jurisdictions that does not have at least one winner of the actual mini-games in the broadcast by inserting into the broadcast one of the substitute min-games having a winner from the respective lottery jurisdiction.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein the substitute mini-game replaces one of the actual mini-games in the broadcast to the respective lottery jurisdiction that does not have at least one winner of the actual mini-games in the broadcast.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein the substitute mini-game is in addition to the actual mini-games in the broadcast to the respective lottery jurisdiction that does not have at least one winner of the actual mini-games in the broadcast.

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein the winner in the substitute mini-game is not eligible for the final bonus game and does not affect selection of the winner from the actual mini-games that plays the final bonus game.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein the audience is composed of players of a primary lottery game conducted in the respective lottery jurisdictions that were randomly selected from a pool of the primary lottery game players generated in each of the respective lottery jurisdictions.

6. The method as in claim 5, wherein the players of the primary lottery game become entrants in the pool by accumulating game symbols from multiple plays of the primary lottery game in their respective lottery jurisdiction.

7. The method as in claim 6, wherein for each play of the primary lottery game, the players are issued lottery tickets having a game symbol associated therewith for play in a bonus game component that requires the players to collect a predefined set of different ones of the game symbols for entry in the pool, and periodically conducting bonus game drawings such that at least one of the players in the pool is selected as a winner in each bonus game drawing and becomes an audience member in the televised game show and eligible for selection as a contestant in one or more of the actual mini games.

8. The method as in claim 7, wherein each jurisdiction conducts a respective bonus game drawing and has a defined minimum number of winners from their respective bonus game drawing present in the audience, and the contestants are randomly drawn from the entirety of the audience.

9. The method as in claim 7, wherein each jurisdiction conducts a respective bonus game drawing and has a defined minimum number of winners from their respective bonus game drawing present in the audience, and at least one of the contestants is randomly drawn from each jurisdiction such that each jurisdiction has at least one contestant in the actual mini games.

10. The method as in claim 7, wherein each jurisdiction is assigned non-contestant audience member spots as a function of their respective jurisdictional participation in the primary lottery game, the audience thus composed of the non-contestant audience members and winners from the bonus game drawings, and the contestants in the televised game show are drawn from the winners from the bonus game drawings present in the audience.

11. The method as in claim 7, wherein the players are awarded a defined number of entries in the bonus game drawing, the number of entries being multiplied as a function of a multiplier symbol earned by the player in play of a second primary lottery game that is played separately from the primary lottery game.

12. The method as in claim 7, further comprising providing players with a bonus game board that tracks status of the bonus game symbols acquired by the player.

13. The method as in claim 12, wherein the bonus game board has a MONOPOLY game theme, the bonus game symbols identifying sets of property locations on the MONOPOLY game board.

14. The method as in claim 13, wherein the bonus game board is a virtual game board provided to the players via a website accessible by the players.

15. The method as in claim 14, further comprising establishing individual player accounts that are accessible by the players via the website, the accounts including the player'"'"'s virtual game board updated with a status of the bonus game symbols accumulated by the player.