Method and system for conducting and linking a televised game show with play of a lottery game

• US 10,092,823 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2015
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Scientific Games Corporation
• Original Assignee: Scientific Games International Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Saferin, Steve, Rogers, Kyle
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Milap
• Application Number:
  US14/880,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20160101349A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,093 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/64 used for radio or television, e.g. television shows; used in front of an audience
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/409 Data transfer via television network
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0605 Lottery games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3267 Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards

Abstract

A lottery game is linked to a televised game show having a plurality of mini-games followed by a final bonus game. An audience is defined for the game show composed of members from a plurality of different lottery jurisdictions, and audience members are selected for play of a plurality of mini-games conducted during taping of the game show. A plurality of substitute mini-games are separately conducted and taped such that at least one substitute mini-game having a winner from each lottery jurisdiction is taped and stored. One or more winners of the actual mini-games are selected for play of the final bonus. The original version of the taped game show is prepared for broadcast to all of the lottery jurisdictions. The broadcast intended for transmission to any lottery jurisdiction that does not have a winner of an actual mini-game in the original taped version is modified by inserting into the broadcast one of the substitute mini-games having a winner from the respective lottery jurisdiction.

Claims

1. A method for conducting and linking a televised game show with play of a lottery game in a plurality of different lottery jurisdictions, the televised game show having one or more episodes which include play of a plurality of mini-games followed by a final bonus game, comprising:

designating an audience for an episode of the televised game show of members from each of the plurality of different lottery jurisdictions, wherein each lottery jurisdiction has a defined minimum number of the members in the audience;

for play of each of the plurality of mini-games during the episode, selecting contestants from the audience and conducting play of the plurality of mini-games with the contestants during an initial taping of the episode of the televised game show;

separately in time from the initial taping, conducting a second taping of play of a plurality of substitute mini-games with contestants from the audience, wherein the plurality of substitute mini-games includes at least one substitute mini-game for each lottery jurisdiction of the plurality of lottery jurisdictions where a winner from the contestants of the substitute mini-game is from the respective lottery jurisdiction;

storing the second taping of the plurality of substitute mini-games;

selecting one or more winners from the plurality of mini-games conducted for play of the final bonus game and a chance to win an increased prize;

playing the final bonus game during the initial taping and selecting one or more winners for the increased prize;

storing the initial taping;

determining one or more non-winner lottery jurisdictions from the plurality of lottery jurisdictions, wherein the one or more non-winner lottery jurisdictions being those lottery jurisdictions of the plurality of lottery jurisdictions that did not have a selected winner in at least one of the plurality of mini-games conducted during the initial taping;

determining one or more winner lottery jurisdictions from the plurality of lottery jurisdictions, wherein the one or more winner lottery jurisdictions being those lottery jurisdictions of the plurality of lottery jurisdictions that did have a selected winner in at least one of the plurality of mini-games conducted during the initial taping;

broadcasting the initial taping through a communications network to the winner lottery jurisdictions; and

for each of the non-winner lottery jurisdictions, preparing a modified version of the initial taping for broadcast by retrieval and inclusion of at least one of the substitute mini-games where the winner is from the respective non-winner lottery jurisdiction into the initial taping and broadcasting only the modified version of the initial taping, through the communications network, to the respective non-winner lottery jurisdiction.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein the retrieval and inclusion of the one or more substitute mini-games includes replacing one of the plurality of mini-games in the initial taping.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein the retrieval and inclusion of the one or more substitute mini-games is in addition to the plurality of mini-games in the initial taping.

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein retrieval and inclusion of the one or more substitute mini-games in the modified version of the initial taping does not affect selection of the one or more winners from the plurality of mini-games in the initial taping that plays the final bonus game.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein the members in the audience from each of the plurality of lottery jurisdictions are randomly selected from a pool of players of a primary lottery game previously conducted in their lottery jurisdiction.

6. The method as in claim 5, wherein the players of the primary lottery game become entrants in the pool by accumulating game symbols from multiple plays of the primary lottery game in their lottery jurisdiction.

7. The method as in claim 6, wherein for each play of the primary lottery game, the players are issued lottery tickets having a game symbol associated therewith for play in a bonus game component that requires the players to collect a predefined set of different ones of the game symbols for entry in the pool, and periodically conducting bonus game drawings prior to the initial taping wherein a winner in each bonus game drawing is eligible to become a member in the audience of the televised game show for their lottery jurisdiction.

8. The method as in claim 7, wherein each lottery jurisdiction of the plurality of lottery jurisdictions has a defined minimum number of winners from their bonus game drawings present in the audience, and the contestants in the plurality of mini-games in the initial taping are randomly drawn from an entirety of the audience.

9. The method as in claim 7, wherein each lottery jurisdiction of the plurality of lottery jurisdictions has a defined minimum number of winners from their bonus game drawings present in the audience, and at least one of the contestants in the plurality of mini-games in the initial taping is randomly drawn from each lottery jurisdiction such that each lottery jurisdiction has at least one contestant in the plurality of mini games.

10. The method as in claim 7, wherein each lottery jurisdiction of the plurality of lottery jurisdictions is also assigned non-contestant audience member spots as a function of their respective jurisdictional participation in the primary lottery game and the contestants in the plurality of mini-games in the initial taping are drawn only from the winners from the bonus game drawings present in the audience.

11. The method as in claim 7, wherein the players are awarded a defined number of entries in the bonus game drawing, the number of entries being multiplied as a function of a multiplier symbol earned by the player in play of a second primary lottery game that is played separately from the primary lottery game.

12. The method as in claim 7, further comprising providing players with a bonus game board that tracks status of the game symbols acquired by the player.

13. The method as in claim 12, wherein the bonus game board has a MONOPOLY game theme, the game symbols identifying sets of MONOPOLY property locations on the bonus game board.

14. The method as in claim 13, wherein the bonus game board is a virtual game board provided to the players via a website accessible by the players.

15. The method as in claim 14, further comprising establishing individual player accounts that are accessible by the players via the website, the accounts including the player'"'"'s virtual game board updated with a status of the game symbols accumulated by the player.