Patent ID: 7549645

Claim:
An audio game system comprising: an audio game console adapted to be connected to a plurality of audio playback devices for respective participants in a music selection game wherein each audio playback device stores a plurality of music files representing the participant's own chosen music inventory, and has an audio signal output for transmitting to the game console an audio signal for any music file selected by the participant in response to a game question or challenge of a game played on said game console, so that each participant can select a music selection stored on their respective audio playback device they deem suitable in response to the game question or challenge and play an output of audio signals from their audio playback device as their respective music selection in response to the game question or challenge; said audio game console having a console body and a plurality of inlets arranged on said console body for the respective game participants for enabling them to connect their respective audio playback devices to enter their audio signal outputs for their respective music selections in response to the game question or challenge; an audio signal queuing mechanism provided with said game console for determining an ordering by time-of-entry among the audio signal outputs from the participants' audio playback devices for the respective music selections of the respective game participants input into said game console inlets and for transmitting to a speaker circuit one or more of the audio signal outputs from the participants' audio playback devices based on the determined queuing order; and a speaker circuit provided with said game console for playing an audio sound output from the audio signal output for at least a music selection received first-in-time from a participant's audio playback device and transmitted through the audio signal queuing mechanism.