Audio quiz game

• US 5,106,097 A
• Filed: 02/28/1991
• Issued: 04/21/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Avalon, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rykodisc
• Inventors: Levine, Barry
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, William H.
• Application Number:
  US07/662,232
• Time in Patent Office: 418 Days
• Field of Search: 273/237, 273/430, 273/431, 273/460, 273/DIG. 28, 434/315, 434/321, 434/319, 434/348
• US Class Current: 273/237
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 11/0011 Chance selectors A63F7/048, A63F9/04 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2423 Discs, e.g. CD or DVD
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00119 Board games concerning music, theatre, cinema, or art
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/183 electric

Abstract

An apparatus and method of playing an audio quiz game wherein a player attempts to answer a question after listening to a corresponding audio clip provided on a compact disc. Each track of the compact disc contains one or more sound clips separated by audio cues. The questions and answers relating to specific tracks are provided in a book, or playing cards, or in computer memory, and can be randomly accessed.

Claims

1. A method of playing a game wherein a player provides an answer to a selected question after listening to a related audio clip, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a source of questions and answers, each question and answer being selectively accessable and provided with a related track-identifying means, and a separate digital storage device having tracks, each track having a track-identifying means and containing information which relates to a specific question;

selecting and reviewing a question;

accessing a specified track on the digital storage device having the track-identifying means corresponding to that of the selected question;

reviewing an audio clip on the specified track;

attempting to answer the selected question in view of the information provided in the audio clip; and

comparing the answer to a correct answer provided in the source of questions and answers.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising, providing serially arranged questions relating to a given track and serially accessing the related audio clips on the specified track.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising, providing audio cues between each clip on the track and pausing when a cue is heard in order to select the next question.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising, providing a game board and playing pieces wherein a playing piece is advanced on the board when a question is correctly answered.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising betting on whether a question will be correctly answered before the attempted answer is given.

6. Apparatus for playing an audio quiz game wherein a player provides an answer to a question after listening to an audio clip, the apparatus comprising:

a set of randomly accessible questions and answers, each question having a different track-identifying means;

a digital storage device having a plurality of tracks for storing digital information, each track being identified by one of the track-identifying means and containing at least one audio clip; and

means for locating within the digital storage device the audio clip corresponding to the track-identifying means;

wherein the game is played by selecting a question, locating the audio clip having the corresponding track-identifying means of the selected question, answering the question as it relates to the audio clip, and comparing the player'"'"'s answer to the correct answer contained in the set of questions and answers.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein a plurality of clips are provided on a track so that one or more clips can be serially accessed by accessing a given track.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the plurality of clips on a given track relate to the same subject matter.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the digital storage device is an optical disc.

10. Apparatus for playing an audio quiz game wherein a player provides an answer to a question after listening to an audio clip, the apparatus comprising:

means for randomly obtaining a specific track identifier from a set of track identifiers;

a source of questions wherein there is at least one question corresponding to every track identifier in the set;

means for locating within the source of questions the question corresponding to the specific track identifier;

a digital storage device having a plurality of tracks for storing digital information, each track being identified by a different track identifier in the set and containing at least one audio clip;

means for locating within the digital storage device the audio clip corresponding to the specific track identifier;

a source of answers, each answer corresponding to a specific question and audio clip;

means for locating within the source of answers the answer corresponding to the related question;

wherein the game is played by randomly obtaining a specific track identifier, locating the question and audio clip corresponding to the specific track identifier, answering the question as it relates to the audio clip, and comparing the player'"'"'s answer to the correct answer contained in the source of answers.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein each track contains a plurality of different audio clips and all of the clips on one track relate to the same subject matter.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the digital storage device is an optical disc.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising means for recording which questions have already been played.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, further comprising a means for recording a player'"'"'s score as he correctly answers a question.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the set of questions and answers is written.

16. Apparatus for playing an audio quiz game wherein a player provides the answer to a preselected question after listening to a preselected audio clip, the apparatus comprising:

means for generating a number from a set of numbers;

a digital storage device having a plurality of tracks for storing digital information which tracks contain different audio clips separated by audio cues and the audio clips are disposed at predetermined locations which correspond to the numbers of the set, wherein each audio clip may be selectively accessed and played in conjunction with a preselected question; and

a source containing a plurality of written questions and answers wherein at least one question and answer relates to each said audio clip, means for identifying the number of the audio clip to which a given question and answer relates, and means for selectively accessing the answer to one question at a time.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the digital storage device is an optical disc.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the clips are disposed on predetermined tracks so that one or more clips can be accessed by accessing a given track.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein each track contains a plurality of different audio clips and all of the clips on one track relate to the same subject matter.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the source is a book comprising a plurality of sheets forming pages of the book, a plurality of dividers disposed between the pages, binding means for holding together the pages and dividers of the book, tab means extending from the dividers with identifying labels to facilitate selection of an adjacent page, each page comprising a plurality of segments wherein each segment can be turned separately from the other segments on the page, each segment containing a question on its front surface and an answer on its back surface, wherein all of the questions and answers on the segments of one page relate to one clip, the tab means on the divider adjacent the one page identifying the number of the corresponding one clip, and each divider permitting the segments of the adjacent page to be turned over as a group while masking the adjacent surfaces of the segments.

21. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a game board having a track with a plurality of spaces between a starting point and a finishing point wherein a player advances a token along the track when he correctly answers a question.