Patent ID: 7549919
Filing Date: 2009-06-23
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An entertainment system based on multiple choice competition games, comprising: a remote server, at least one terminal operable to communicate with the server over a communications network, wherein the terminal includes an audio system for playing, for the needs of a game, at least a portion of a musical recording, a display that displays information in the form of a question and displays multiple choice answers to the question, wherein the question relates to the portion of musical recording that has been played, a user interface that enables a user to select an answer from the displayed multiple choice answers, and a scorer for recording the answer selected by the user and determining if the answer corresponds to a correct answer; wherein the terminal is configured as a jukebox system that includes a storage device that stores a library of musical recordings that can be played in full on the terminal for a fee, and further wherein the library of musical recordings can be updated with additional musical recordings through communication with the server, thereby defining a customized library of musical recordings on the jukebox system; wherein the entertainment system comprises a game module configured to automatically control, for the needs of the game, the updating of the customized library of musical recordings stored in the jukebox system, with musical recordings stored on the server or on another jukebox system connected to the server, through communications of the jukeboxes with the server; wherein the jukebox system is configured to randomly select the musical recording to be used for the game from the customized library of musical recordings, where if the randomly selected musical recording is associated with a flag indicating that the musical recording cannot be used for the game, then the jukebox system is configured to automatically ignore that musical recording and randomly select another musical recording from the customized library, wherein the jukebox system is further configured to repeat the random selection until a musical recording is randomly selected where the associated flag indicating that the musical recording cannot be used for the game is not present; and wherein the jukebox system is configured to randomly generate and display the question about the selected recording, to provide and display the correct answer relating to the question, and to randomly generate and display a number of wrong answers relating to the question.