Abstract: A method and device for a smoking cessation program are disclosed. The method includes: defining a buffer value for virtual smoke products for a withdrawal day, defining a stock value for virtual smoke products for the withdrawal day, defining a buffer fill time for transferring the virtual smoke products from the stock value to the buffer value for the withdrawal day, and allowing one of the smoke products to be withdrawn from the housing as long as the number of virtual smoke products in the buffer value is greater than zero. The method and the device enable the person willing to cease smoking to use the permanently reduced amount of smoke products during the withdrawal period (physical withdrawal) for the “individual critical smoke situations” in order to teach the corresponding brain area to master these critical smoke situations without smoke products (mental withdrawal).

Abstract: A method for transmitting information between a mobile telephone having an internal device time, and a recipient having an internal time standard, includes: A) telephone transmits a query signal to recipient, B) recipient reads out the internal time standard and sends to telephone, C) a time difference delta-t1 between the internal device time and the received time data is calculated/stored, D) apply time is set to the value of the internal device time minus delta-t1, E) data stream is sent to the recipient, including apply time at time of pressing a key, F) apply time of E) is read-out from the stream and compared with predetermined maximum time, G) if apply time is earlier/simultaneous with the maximum time, further processing of data stream is carried out; if apply time is later than the maximum time, a warning signal is generated/assigned to the data stream of E) and stored.

Abstract: A method for transmitting information between a mobile telephone having an internal device time, and a recipient having an internal time standard, includes: A) telephone transmits a query signal to recipient, B) recipient reads out the internal time standard and sends to telephone, C) a time difference delta-t1 between the internal device time and the received time data is calculated/stored, D) apply time is set to the value of the internal device time minus delta-t1, E) data stream is sent to the recipient, including apply time at time of pressing a key, F) apply time of E) is read-out from the stream and compared with predetermined maximum time, G) if apply time is earlier/simultaneous with the maximum time, further processing of data stream is carried out; if apply time is later than the maximum time, a warning signal is generated/assigned to the data stream of E) and stored.

Abstract: A method is described for verifying answers of a quiz game input into a quiz computer, including an input keyboard, an OK key, a display and a computer unit equipped with a read-only memory unit containing an operating program, the program: coding for a method for evaluating answers input by the input keyboard during a quiz game, coding for the generation of control and/or confirmation data from input answers, and coding for at least one security feature including the generation of a device time initialized by the actuation of a key, the generation of a random data word upon actuation of a key, and the combinations of the prominent security features, and the security feature and the control and/or confirmation data being transmitted to a game organizer and verified at that location, and a program coding for such a method and a quiz computer for carrying-out such a method.

Abstract: A method is described for verifying answers of a quiz game input into a quiz computer, including an input keyboard, an OK key, a display and a computer unit equipped with a read-only memory unit containing an operating program, the program: coding for a method for evaluating answers input by the input keyboard during a quiz game, coding for the generation of control and/or confirmation data from input answers, and coding for at least one security feature including the generation of a device time initialized by the actuation of a key, the generation of a random data word upon actuation of a key, and the combinations of the prominent security features, and the security feature and the control and/or confirmation data being transmitted to a game organizer and verified at that location, and a program coding for such a method and a quiz computer for carrying-out such a method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for testing the accuracy of answers to quiz questions, wherein a quiz master and a participant use, respectively, an identical quiz computer, wherein an answer code sequence is subsequently compared by means of a solution code sequence when a button on the quiz computer of the participant is actuated, and the correct and incorrect answers of the participant, associated with the question, are displayed on the display either successively or simultaneously as “correct” or “incorrect”.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for verifying answers of a quiz game that are input into a quiz computer, which comprises an input keyboard, an OK key, a display and a computer unit that is equipped with a read-only memory unit containing an operating program, said operating program coding for a method for evaluating answers input by means of the input keyboard during a quiz game, said operating program coding for the generation of control and/or confirmation data from input answers, said operating program coding for at least one security feature from the group consisting of the generation of a device time initialized by the actuation of a key, the generation of a random data word upon actuation of a key, and the combinations of the prominent security features, and said security feature in addition to the control and/or confirmation data being transmitted to a game organizer and verified at that location, and a program coding for such a method and a quiz computer for carrying-out such a method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for verifying answers of a quiz game that are input into a quiz computer, which comprises an input keyboard (1), an OK key (8), a display (12) and a computer unit (13) that is equipped with a read-only memory unit (14) containing an operating program, said operating program coding for a method for evaluating answers input by means of the input keyboard (1) during a quiz game, said operating program coding for the generation of control and/or confirmation data from input answers, said operating program coding for at least one security feature from the group consisting of “the generation of a device time initialized by the actuation of a key, the generation of a random data word upon actuation of a key, and the combinations of the prominent security features”, and said security feature in addition to the control and/or confirmation data being transmitted to a game organizer and verified at that location, and a program coding for such a method and a quiz computer for

Abstract: A method and system are provided for quiz question game play. In order to check the correctness of answers to quiz questions or the like over the media and in events, the correctness of answers given by a participant to questions asked by the organizer is checked. This is done by converting answers into a question-related control data word by automatically allocating a confirmation data word verifying the correctness of the answer given by the participant to the organizer.

Abstract: A game ball with at least two axially symmetrical portions, rotatable with respect to each other, is provided with two diametrically opposite cones having a common center axis and being rotatable together around the center axis at their facing peaks. A ring-shaped central portion supplements the two cones to a ball and is rotatable relative to the two cones around the center axis. A guide groove extends in one main plane of the ball around the periphery of the ball. The groove is formed at the outer surfaces of the two spherical calottes of the cone and the central portion. Operating elements, in a peripheral direction are arranged in a row, are positioned in the main plane of the ball, and are guided within the guide groove.