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Methods and systems for electronic virtual races

  • US 6,921,331 B2
  • Filed: 04/19/2001
  • Issued: 07/26/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An electronic interactive entertainment system, comprising:

  • a display;

    a video library, the video library storing a plurality of selectably accessible video racing activity sets, each video racing activity set of the plurality of video racing activity sets being associated with a different kind of race, each kind of race including a plurality of race entrants, each video racing activity set including a predetermined number of numbered video sequences for each race entrant, the predetermined number of video sequences for each race entrant being dependant on predetermined odds assigned to each race entrant;

    a player interaction means, the player interaction means being configured to enable selection, from the plurality of stored selectably accessible video racing activity sets, of the kind of race that is to be shown on the display, a predicted winning race entrant of the selected kind of race and a wager on the predicted numbered outcome of the selected kind of race;

    a random number generator, and a processor, the processor being configured to select a winning entrant of the selected kind of race, to access the video library, to select one of the predetermined number of numbered video sequences of the race entrant selected as the winning entrant according to a number generated by the random number generator and to cause the selected numbered video sequence to be shown on the display.

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