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Game method and apparatus for use while viewing a sporting event

  • US 4,722,526 A
  • Filed: 01/20/1987
  • Issued: 02/02/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/20/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of playing a game by one or more spectators of a sporting event during which an official is empowered to assess penalties for infractions of the rules of that sporting event, said method comprising, in the order given the steps of:

  • (a) signalling by spectators of an observed infraction during said sporting event;

    (b) identifying the spectator who first signaled in step (a);

    (c) identifying each of the spectators who signaled within a selected time period of the spectator identified in step (b);

    (d) identifying each of the spectators not identified in step (b) and (c);

    (e) determining if the official at the sporting event called an infraction by one or more of the spectators viewing the sporting event action after the completion of step (a); and

    (f) advancing or decrementing a score for each spectator if the official called, or did not call, an infraction, respectively, as a function of which group of identified spectators each spectator is individually included with.

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