Book of wishes game

• US 7,201,653 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2001
• Issued: 04/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Benny Radom
• Original Assignee: Benny Radom
• Inventors: Radom, Benny
• Primary Examiner(s): Olszewski; Robert P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen; Dat
• Application Number:
  US09/948,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20020098881A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,042 Days
• Field of Search: 463/1, 463/9, 463/40, 463/42, 463/43, 273429-432, 273/243, 700 90- 92, 434322-364, 705/1, 705/7, 705/10, 705 14- 17, 705/24, 705 26- 27
• US Class Current: 463/9
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/407 Data transfer via internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/183 electric

Abstract

A method for playing a game in which one or more contestants endeavor to transform a list of personal desired wishes into awarded prizes. The game offers two mechanisms-knowledge version and luck version for realizing these wishes. External participants may become involved in the game and fulfill their own personally selected wishes. The external participants may obtain the unfulfilled wishes lost by the contestants. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention a website “arena” is provided, which uniquely connects personal needs and desires of individuals with potential suppliers of these desired products and services. The arena enables participants to accumulate credit points. The game—typically a TV game show—stimulates the general public to take part in the arena, promotes it, and creates a competitive advantage over e-commerce sites.

Claims

1. A method of playing a television game, played by a player chosen from a group of contenders, the method comprising:

asking each of the contenders before the game commences to provide a list of his or her own desired wishes that are executable, each list of desired wishes is prepared by each contender and recorded prior to the actual beginning of the game;

challenging the player with a number of challenges in a consecutive order, wherein upon the player meeting a challenge successfully he or she is credited with a wish chosen in a predetermined order from the list of desired wishes, and

allowing the player to choose whether to quit and retain the awarded wishes or to be challenged again allowing him or her to be credited with another wish from the list of desired wishes, and wherein upon the player failing to meet a challenge he or she is disqualified and discredited of the wishes previously credited.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after the player is disqualified a new player is invited to play the game and be credited with wishes from the list of desired wishes, that were either discredited from the player who played before the new player or were not previously credited.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the new player is chosen if one or more wishes on the list of desired wishes is stated by the player to be a wish of his or her own.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the new player is communicated with by using a communication network.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the communication network is worldwide-web based.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the challenges comprise drawing an item from a group of items, one of the items being a distinctly marked item, the player being made to be unable to identify the distinctly marked item prior to drawing an item, wherein drawing the distinctly marked item disqualifies the player, and wherein drawing an item that is not the distinctly marked item is considered to be meeting the challenge successfully, crediting the player with a wish and allowing him or her to be challenged again or quit.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the group of items comprises balls.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein more than one distinctly marked item is used.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the challenges comprise trivia questions.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the challenges are arranged in groups of different topics.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the player is allowed to select a topic from which to be challenged.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the player is allowed a limited time to meet a challenge and is disqualified if he or she fails to meet the challenge in time.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the player is allowed to refuse a challenge and be challenged by another challenge.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein to ensure that the player is awarded a credited wish even if the player fails to meet a challenge, the number of challenges with which he or she are challenged is reduced and the level of difficulty of a following challenge is increased.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the player is allowed to pass on a challenge within a limited period of time, without being disqualified, subject to a penalty.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the player has to activate a panic button mechanism to pass a challenge.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the panic button mechanism may be activated within the limited period of time.

18. A method of playing a game, played by a player chosen from a group of contenders, the method comprising:

asking each contender before the game commences to provide a list of his or her own desired wishes that are executable, each list of desired wishes is prepared according to the will and desires of each contender prior to the actual beginning of the game; and

challenging the player with at least one of a successive plurality of challenges in a predetermined order, the predetermined order of the plurality of challenges corresponding to a predetermined order of the list of wishes, wherein the player meeting a challenge successfully results in the player being credited with a corresponding wish in the predetermined order of the list of wishes.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

allowing the player to choose whether to quit and retain any credited wish or to be challenged again with a further challenge in the predetermined order of challenges corresponding to a further wish from the predetermined order of the list of wishes, wherein the player meeting the further challenge successfully results in the player being credited with the further wish from the predetermined order of the list of wishes.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

discrediting a player of any credited wish and the further wish when the player fails to meet the further challenge.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the player failing to successfully meet the challenge results in the player being discredited of the corresponding wish from the predetermined order of the list of wishes.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

disqualifying the player failing to successfully meet the challenge that resulted in the player being discredited of the corresponding wish from the predetermined order of the list of wishes; and

inviting a new player to play the game and be challenged for a corresponding wish from the predetermined order of the list of wishes that were either discredited from a disqualified player or were not previously credited to a disqualified player.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

communicating with the new player to play the game by using a communication network.

24. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

enabling the registration of a new player by using a communication network.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

communicating with the new player to play the game by using a communication network.

26. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

choosing the new player based upon one or more wishes from the list of wishes being a wish of the new player.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

communicating with the new player to play the game by using a communication network.

28. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

disqualifying the player failing to successfully meet the challenge that resulted in the player being discredited of the corresponding wish from the predetermined order of the list of wishes; and

inviting a new player to play the game.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

enabling the registration of a new player by using a communication network.

30. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

choosing the new player based upon one or more wishes from the list of wishes being a wish of the new player.

31. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

communicating with the new player to play the game by using a communication network.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the game is a television game.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein the game is an interactive game.

34. The method of claim 18, wherein the game is a television game.

35. The method of claim 18, wherein the game is an interactive game.

36. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

communicating with a new player to play the game by using a communication network.

37. The method of claim 18, wherein the challenges comprise drawing an item from a group of items, one of the items being a distinctly marked item, the player being made to be unable to identify the distinctly marked item prior to drawing an item, wherein drawing the distinctly marked item disqualifies the player, and wherein drawing an item that is not the distinctly marked item is considered to be meeting the challenge successfully, crediting the player with a wish and allowing the player to be challenged again or quit.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the group of items comprises balls.

39. The method of claim 37, wherein more than one distinctly marked item is used.

40. The method of claim 18, wherein the challenges comprise trivia questions.

41. The method of claim 18, wherein the challenges are arranged in groups of different topics.

42. The method of claim 41, wherein the player is allowed to select a topic from which to be challenged.

43. The method of claim 41, wherein the player is allowed a limited time to meet a challenge and is disqualified if he or she fails to meet the challenge in time.

44. The method of claim 18, wherein the player is allowed to refuse a challenge and be challenged by another challenge.

45. The method of claim 18, wherein to ensure that the player is awarded a credited wish even if the player fails to meet a challenge, the number of challenges with which the player is challenged is reduced and the level of difficulty of a following challenge is increased.

46. The method of claim 18, wherein the player is allowed to pass on a challenge within a limited period of time, without being disqualified, subject to a penalty.

47. The method of claim 46, wherein the player has to activate a panic button mechanism to pass a challenge.

48. The method of claim 47, wherein the panic button mechanism may be activated within the limited period of time.