Patent ID: 8428614

Claim:
A system for providing a mobile phone based treasure hunt game, comprising: a system server including puzzle data pertaining to a plurality of geographic sites; at least one mobile phone; a plurality of geographically diverse mobile phone location identifiers, wherein the location identifiers include at least one cell tower; software executing on said system server for receiving location data pertaining to said at least one mobile phone, the location data indicative of a location of said at least one mobile phone relative to at least one of the location identifiers; software executing on said system server for determining at least one of the geographic sites within a predetermined distance of the location; software executing on said system server for providing at least a portion of the puzzle data pertaining to the at least one geographic site to said at least one mobile phone; software executing on said system server for creating puzzle data pertaining to a new geographic site at the location of said at least one mobile phone in response to a request to create a new site received from said at least one mobile phone; and software executing on said system server for creating message data pertaining to at least one of the plurality of geographic sites in response to a request to create the message data received from said at least one mobile phone, wherein said message data is accessible via one or more second mobile phones located within a predetermined range of the at least one of the plurality of geographic sites.