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Competitive game

Patent 4586707 Issued on May 6, 1986. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject April 29, 2005. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

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Telephone random number game Patent #: 3998465
Issued on: 12/21/1976
Inventor: Mascola

Inventors

Application

No. 06/728148 filed on 04/29/1985

US Classes:

463/9, In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a participant (e.g., problem eliciting response, puzzle, etc.)273/139, Chance selection463/41Telephonic (e.g., modem, etc.)

Examiners

Primary: Skogquist, Harland S.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Classes

G09B 7/00 (20060101)
G09B 7/073 (20060101)
A63F 9/18 (20060101)

Foreign Application Priority Data

1982-01-02 GB

Abstract

A game primarily though not exclusively intended for mass-communication media such as radio, television and newspapers and periodicals, involves the answers to a set of questions being assembled, for example, as numbers, according to a predetermined explicit or problematic algorithm into an instruction such for example as a telephone number by means of which the first solver can identify himself and claim a prize.

Other References

  • Quote-Acrostic Puzzle, The Washington Post Magazine, Mar. 31, 1985, p. 37
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