Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Lotto or bingo type
Patent
1997-06-27
1999-07-27
Stoll, William E.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Lotto or bingo type
273139, A63F 306
Patent
active
059277165
ABSTRACT:
In order to prevent stockpiling of tickets and to encourage the purchase of more tickets, a system is provided whereby game instructions are announced subsequent to distribution of the tickets. The game instructions notify the players as to which game areas in a ticket playing field they must unmask in order to win the interactive game of chance. The game instructions may be announced during a television program or radio broadcast or any other similar promotional activity and provide the players with the incentive to purchase tickets and to participate in the viewing or listening of the program or other promotion. To safeguard against stockpiling of old tickets, play areas that are not unmasked in accordance with the play instructions automatically invalidate the tickets. Unmasking of the play areas is undisguisable, allowing the game sponsor to readily determine which play areas have been revealed in accordance with the play instructions and which are in violation therewith and are, accordingly, invalid. Unmasked tickets which do not possess a winning combination can never be a winner.
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Berlin Peter R.
Fiedler Ernest W.
Goodson Jonathan M.
Bissell Henry M.
Fiedler/Berlin Productions, Inc.
Jonathan Goodson Formats, LLC.
Stoll William E.
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