Gaming using social contact profiles and social contact profile attributes

摘要

A game of chance in which attributes (age, location, interests, star sign) in the profile data for social contacts in a social networking system are used to determine whether a player wins or loses the game of chance. Social contacts are randomly selected from a group of social contacts to form a randomly selected subset of social contacts. A game player wins if the randomly selected social contacts have one or more profile attributes that match the profile attributes of the player. The game may be presented as a slots-based game in which profile pictures for the social contacts are the symbols for the reels of the slots game. Other logos can be included in the reels as well as profile pictures. The social contacts may be obtained from a single data source or from multiple data sources and aggregated. Also, a player may be required to provide an indication that they wish to take part in a game and may be rewarded if their social contact data is randomly selected to be part of the subset of social contacts. The game operator can have access to the social contact profiles and attribute data through the game.