Bingo game involving promotional coupons

• US 4,509,759 A
• Filed: 06/07/1982
• Issued: 04/09/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Maynard E. Small
• Original Assignee: Maynard E. Small
• Inventors: Small, Maynard E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Application Number:
  US06/385,840
• Time in Patent Office: 1,037 Days
• Field of Search: 273/240, 273/269, 273/286, 273/287
• US Class Current: 273/269
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/06 Lottos or bingo games; Systems, apparatus or devices for checking such games small boxes with balls used for generating random numbers A63F7/048; lottery apparatus G07C15/00; lottery gaming stations, online lottery or bingo G07F17/329; printing processes for lottery tickets B41M3/005
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/903 Lottery ticket

Abstract

A game for a plurality of players wherein each player is provided with a playing card, said playing card being presented to the players by means of a mass distribution publication. The playiing card comprises a matrix of deliniated areas, such as squares, in rows and columns, each square bearing a certain indicia which is to be matched with a corresponding indicia found in a plurality of promotional coupons present in the same publication. The player matches such indicia and continues to do so until he has satisfied any one of several particular combinations of matched indicia. The player also may be any one of several required to ascertain the correct total number of coupons having appropriate indicia that appear in the publication in order to win the game or become eligible to progress toward winning a prize.

Claims

1. A game of the type known as "bingo" for players comprisng:

(a) a single edition printed run-of-press, multi-page and mass circulation publication;

(b) a set of playing cards, one of said set provided with each sample of said publication, each of said cards having a grid with several rows and columns forming a set of oriented areas, each oriented area respectively bearing individual indicia thereon;

(c) a set of coupons common to all players printed in said publication, at least a portion of said coupons being positioned at various isolated locations throughout the pages of the publication as to be spaced apart from one another by printed subject matter unrelated thereto, each coupon respectively bearing individual indicia, whereby every player has an identical set of indicia bearing coupons;

at least a portion of said coupons being located on pages separate from said playing card; and

(d) said area indicia and said coupon indicia being cooperatively related, in that selected indicia from the coupon indicia set match with selected indicia from the area indicia set such that said matched area indicia describes a predetermined pattern on said playing card grid;

whereby each player is urged to scan each page of said publication to determine the presence of said coupons in order to produce said predetermined pattern of matched indicia.

2. The game as set forth in claim 1 wherein:

(a) at least two of said oriented areas bear identical area indicia thereon.