Patent ID: 8556732
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: A63F,A63H

Abstract:
1. A handheld plaything having one or more adjustable game attributes, comprising: a housing; a reading unit located in said housing and reads any of a plurality of unique visual machine-readable representations from any of a plurality of labeled game elements, each said visual machine-readable representation encodes a different game related information; a memory located in said housing and hosts at least one attribute record characterizing at least one game attribute of a game; a learning module located in said housing and updates said at least one attribute record according to a respective said game related information encoded in at least one of said plurality of unique visual machine-readable representations which are read by said reading unit; and a presentation unit which expresses said game attribute according to said at least one updated attribute record; wherein said reading unit based handheld plaything is a pawn indicating at least one of a character having at least one property in a multiplayer game and a progress of a player in a multi-stage game, said game related information being associated with an indication to at least one of a change in said property and a stage in said multi-stage game, said at least one game attribute defines at least one of a current level of said property and said progress.