Patent ID: 7281928

Claim:
A method for promoting literacy and reading by conducting a competition related to a literary work in association with an advertisement, comprising: dividing a literary work comprising a correctly ordered sequence of words into a plurality of distinct parts, each part having no readily identifiable means for determining the correct sequence of words in said literary work; creating a plurality of playing pieces, each of said playing pieces comprising one of said distinct parts; creating an advertisement; distributing said plurality of playing pieces comprising one of said distinct parts to members of the public in association with said advertisement; collecting said playing pieces comprising one of said distinct parts; sequencing said playing pieces into a correctly ordered sequence of words in said literary work; sending said correctly ordered set of playing pieces, or an identifier thereof, that represents the correctly ordered sequence of words in said literary work; and winning a prize for said correctly ordered set of playing pieces that represents the correctly ordered sequence of words in said literary work.