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System and method for playing a game

  • US 7,601,065 B2
  • Filed: 10/24/2002
  • Issued: 10/13/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for playing a game, which system comprises a game unit and a number of mobile terminals which can communicate with the game unit, which game unit is adapted to send a game code to one or more mobile terminals and which mobile terminals are adapted to send at least one game code-related reply message to the game unit, wherein each reply message comprises an identification code of the mobile terminal, wherein the game code is a number comprising two or more digits, wherein each of said digits identifies a key of a mobile terminal and corresponds to three or four different letters from the alphabet, and each reply message is a word or a part of a word composed of one or more letters which have each been selected by means of the key identified by the respective digit of the game code, wherein the game unit is adapted to verify the letters of the reply message on their correspondence to the digits of the game code, wherein the game unit is arranged for verifying for each reply message whether the letters of the word correspond to the digits of the game code and the word formed by said letters, wherein the game unit is adapted to determine a score on the basis of the digits corresponding to the letters of the word, wherein the game unit is adapted to determine the score as the sum of the digits corresponding to the letters of the word from the reply message.

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