Game of chance particularly adapted for play in conjunction with a team sport contest

• US 4,540,174 A
• Filed: 04/16/1984
• Issued: 09/10/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Coppock C. Wallace
• Original Assignee: Coppock C. Wallace
• Inventors: Coppock, C. Wallace
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAPIRO, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US06/601,011
• Time in Patent Office: 512 Days
• Field of Search: 273/139, 273/138, 273/85 R, 273/85 G, 273/94, 273/87, 273/93, 273/1 R, 273/1 E, 273/1 G, 273/1 GC, 273/DIG. 28, 283/100-102
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2011/0097 Watching television being part of the game, e.g. using the television broadcasting of a sporting event
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/645 used by the watcher or listener
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0665 having a message becoming legible after rubbing-off a coating or removing an adhesive layer for educational purposes G09B

Abstract

A game of chance designed to be played in conjunction with a team sport being broadcast wherein the performance of a particular player or position is matched against actual performance, for example, if particular players picked by chance to make the first and last scores in a period, actually do so, a match is made. Other criteria are limitations on opponent'"'"'s scoring, the position scoring the most points and the like.

Claims

1. A game of chance to be played in conjunction with a team sport contest being broadcast and designed to attract and hold one'"'"'s attention to said contest and to intermittent commercials broadcast throughout, said game comprising:

a plurality of game cards marked with at least one row of spaces for each period of said contest;

a plurality of symbols, each representing a scoring feature that might occur during said contest;

each of said cards being individually marked with one of said symbols placed at random in each of said spaces; and

broadcast signal means transmitted during a commercial break identifying the particular space in said one row representing the next contest period to match against a corresponding scoring feature characteristic during said next period.

2. The game of chance defined by claim 1 wherein:

each period is a time period of play; and

each symbol represents a characteristic of a score made during a period of play.

3. The game of chance defined by claim 2 wherein:

there are two rows of spaces for each period of play to represent the first and last scores made by one team in said period.

4. The game of chance defined by claim 3 wherein:

said team sport contest is a baseball game with each period comprising an inning thereof; and

wherein;

each of said symbols represents a way of reaching base safely.

5. The game of chance defined by claim 2 wherein:

there is another row of spaces for each period to represent the maximum number of points scored by the other team in said period.

6. The game of chance defined by claim 2 wherein:

said contest is a game of American football being televised and each event comprises a quarter period thereof; and

wherein;

each symbol indicates a type of play from scrimmage on which a score is made.

7. The game of chance defined by claim 2 wherein:

each symbol indicates the field position of the player making such score.

8. The game of chance defined by claim 2 wherein:

said sport contest is a game of American basketball being televised and each event comprises a quarter period thereof; and

wherein;

each of said symbols indicates the player position from which the most points are scored during a period.

9. The game of chance defined by claim 7 including:

a place in each said inning space row in which is to be designated one of the three players of one team certain to bat in said inning;

the identity of said one player being identified by said broadcast signal occurring during a commercial break prior to the half inning in which said one team is at bat.

10. The game of chance defined by claim 9 including:

an additional row of spaces for each inning with further symbols therein to indicate a manner in which a batter may be put out.

11. The game of chance defined by claim 1 wherein:

each period is a time period of play; and

each symbol represents a characteristic of a score made during a period of play.

12. A game of chance to be played in conjunction with a team sport contest being viewed and designed to attract and hold one'"'"'s attention to said contest and to intermittent announcements throughout, said game comprising:

a plurality of game cards marked with at least one row of spaces for each period of said contest;

a plurality of symbols, each representing a scoring feature that might occur during said contest;

each of said cards being individually marked with one of said symbols placed at random in each of said spaces; and

announcements transmitted at intervals identifying the particular space in said one row representing the next contest period to match against a corresponding scoring feature characteristic during said next period.