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Introduce a fishing game for mobile phones in which an Editor’s note:
incoming call represents a bite on the line. The source ofThis idea was inspired
the call (local, same mobile network, international) by a much cuter idea
would determine the type of fish and the duration of the which unfortunately
call would determine the size and weight of the catch. we didn’t think of first.
SMS text messages would follow each call to report the A Scandinavian
mobile operator
255catch and players would be able to compete against introduced an SMS
fishing game in which
players simply

each other. registered, did
nothing for a few
Dan Friedman hours and then, if
20 July 2001 they were lucky, their

phone would bleep

with a text informing
them of their catch.
Launch a subscription SMS game in which instructions
for distinctive physical actions are sent simultaneously
to many players by text. A section of the subscriber
base may be requested to put their hand up and show
three fingers. Another set may be asked to perform
windmills with their right arm. Other gamers would have

256to spot or make a guess as to the actions within five
minutes of the instruction being sent.

Charles Cohen
22 July 2001