Scavenger hunt-type card-based game incorporating personality trait, command and/or event cards and method for playing same

• US 6,609,713 B1
• Filed: 04/25/2000
• Issued: 08/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Snow Day Entertainment, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Eleven Eleven Productions, LLC
• Inventors: Zimmer, Joel C., Heffron, John R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pierce, William M.
• Application Number:
  US09/558,960
• Time in Patent Office: 1,218 Days
• Field of Search: 273/273, 273/429, 273/430, 273/431, 273/432, 273/440, 273/459, 273/161, 273/292, 273/308, 273/129
• US Class Current: 273/292
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2003/0489 Psychology
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00145 Board games concerning treasure-hunting, fishing, hunting capturing fishing games A63F9/305
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0478 concerning life sciences, e.g. biology, ecology, nutrition, health, medicine, psychology

Abstract

A card deck comprising a plurality of cards of at least one type is provided as well as a method for playing a scavenger hunt game in a selected environment/population. The plurality of cards comprises at least one type of card bearing indicia representative of a goal/target normally occurring in the selected environment/population. Players are thereby dealt a predetermined number of cards and sent into the selected environment/population and must match the goal/target on each of their cards with targets normally occurring in the selected environment/population.

Claims

1. A method for playing a scavenger hunt-type game comprising the steps of:

preselecting a social environment having a population of members with personality characteristics distinctive to the social environment;

providing a plurality of targets, wherein the plurality of targets are provided on a plurality of cards, wherein the plurality of cards comprises at least one of;

a first type of card having indicia representing a personality stereotype of a person conforming to at least one of the personality characteristics distinctive to the preselected social environment;

a second type of card having indicia representing a command to be performed by one of the members of the population located in the preselected social environment, the command being related to the preselected social environment; and

a third type of card having indicia representing a stereotypical event expected to occur with at least one member of the population in the preselected social environment, the event being related to the preselected social environment;

assigning a number of the plurality of targets to each player of the game; and

matching, by the players of the game, of each of the assigned number of the plurality of targets with;

a first match type comprising a member of the population in the preselected social environment having at least one of the distinctive characteristics conforming to indicia on a card of the first type assigned to the player;

a second match type comprising an act performed at the request of a player conforming to indicia on a card of the second type assigned to the player; and

a third match type comprising an event witnessed by a player conforming to indicia on a card of the third type assigned to the player.

2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising the step of verifying that a player has performed the matching step prior to other players of the game.

3. The method of claim 2 and further comprising the step of declaring the player a winner who is determined to have passed the verifying step prior to other players of the game.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the plurality of cards comprises cards of the first type and of the second type and the matching step must be matched against the first match type and the second match type.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the plurality of cards comprises cards of the first type and of the third type and the matching step must be matched against the first match type and the third match type.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the plurality of cards comprises cards of the first, second and third types and the matching step must be matched against the first, second and third match types.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the preselected social environment is a nightclub and the first, second and third types of cards and the first, second and third match types conform respectively to personality characteristics, acts and events distinctive to a nightclub.

8. In a scavenger hunt game comprising a set of targets identified at the outset of the scavenger hunt game and a set of players of the game, whereby the players set out to retrieve a set of the targets assigned to them and whereby a winner is declared as one of the set of players who retrieves each of the set of targets assigned to them, the improvement in the method of playing the scavenger hunt game comprising:

providing an instruction limiting play to a preselected social environment having a population of members with personality characteristics distinctive to the preselected social environment, and a deck of cards comprising at least one of;

a first type of card having indicia representing a personality stereotype of a person conforming to at least one of the personality characteristics distinctive to the preselected social environment;

a second type of card having indicia representing a command to be performed by one of the members of the population located in the preselected social environment, the command being related to the preselected social environment; and

a third type of card having indicia representing a stereotypical event expected to occur with at least one member of the population in the preselected social environment, the event being related to the preselected social environment; and

wherein the players attempt to match the targets contained on cards dealt to them with;

a first match type comprising a member of the population in the preselected social environment having at least one of the distinctive characteristics conforming to indicia on a card of the first type assigned to the player;

a second match type comprising an act performed at the request of a player conforming to indicia on a card of the second type assigned to the player; and

a third match type comprising an event witnessed by a player conforming to indicia on a card of the third type assigned to the player.

9. The scavenger hunt game of claim 8 and further comprising the step of verifying that a player has performed the matching step prior to other players of the game.

10. The scavenger hunt game of claim 9 and further comprising the step of declaring the player a winner who is determined to have passed the verifying step prior to other players of the game.

11. The scavenger hunt game of claim 10 wherein the plurality of cards comprises cards of the first type and of the second type and the players must match against the first match type and the second match type.

12. The scavenger hunt game of claim 10 wherein the plurality of cards comprises cards of the first type and of the third type and the players must match against the first match type and the third match type.

13. The scavenger hunt game of claim 10 wherein the plurality of cards comprises cards of the first, second and third types and the players must match against the first, second and third match types.

14. The scavenger hunt game of claim 8 wherein the preselected social environment is a nightclub and the first, second and third types of cards and the first, second and third match types conform respectively to personality characteristics, acts and events distinctive to a nightclub.