Amusement devices: games inventions 03/06

20060066042 - Playing surface for a game and method of using a game playing surface: The invention may be embodied as a playing surface. Such a playing surface may include a first boundary wall, a second boundary wall, a first zone separator and a second zone separator. The second zone separator may be spaced apart from the first zone separator in order to provide a...

20060066043 - Instant win gaming ticket and method: Methods and apparatus for playing an instant win gaming ticket. An instant win gaming ticket has multiple instant win games which can be played by the player. The amount won per game is dependent on the results of at least one previous game on the same ticket. The player plays...

20060066044 - Games of chance involving roulette wheels: A device for playing a game of chance comprises a plurality of roulette wheels each spinnable to provide a result, and an accumulator for calculating and outputting a sum of the results of the roulette wheels. The result is a game of chance that has a bell curve of odds...

20060066045 - Drawing machine for multiple games: A drawing machine has a base, a barrel, a cover, a blower, a ball selector, two curved tubes, a ball collector and two connector assemblies. The barrel is transparent to contain balls and has an access window. The cover is attached to the barrel to close the window. The blower...

20060066046 - Apparatus and system for supplying game articles: Game article supply apparatus and game system capable of sustaining players' will to collect game articles are offered. The supply system has an accommodation unit equipped with accommodation portions for accommodating plural game articles used in games. The system further includes a delivery unit for delivering the game articles accommodated...

20060066047 - Toy play set: A toy play set contains a set of playing cards used to play at least one predetermined card game. The toy play set includes a generally elongated body having a closed configuration in which ends and a side wall generally surround a hollow interior and an open configuration in which...

20060066048 - Magnetic jam detection in a card shuffler: A shuffling device for playing cards and method of shuffling cards is provided where a first group of cards is moved within the device to form a randomized second group of cards. The device comprises moving parts that assist in the movement of cards within the shuffling device; a processor...

20060066049 - Sliding shell mechanism for a hollow puzzle: A sliding shell mechanism includes a circumferential band, and a pair of portions attachable to the circumferential band, each portion having formed on an edge portion thereof an annular groove, the grooves being sized and configured to slidingly and matingly receive tongue portions of the circumferential band. The disclosed sliding...

20060066051 - Casino card game: A card game and method of playing the card game is disclosed. The card game involves placing cards into pre-defined card positions in the form of grids or matrices. For example, a 3×3 grid is filled with nine cards. Game outcome combinations are defined by three horizontal, three vertical and...

20060066050 - Poker blackjack game: A method for playing a modified blackjack game between a dealer and at least one player. Each player places a first wager, the outcome of which is determined by conventional rules of blackjack play. Players may optionally place an additional wager or side bet corresponding to a five-card poker hand...

20060066052 - Electronic player interaction area with player customer interaction features: A system and method for providing an electronic poker game of the present invention includes a table having a table top with a playing surface and a plurality of electronic player interaction areas (EPIAs) located around the playing surface. Each electronic player interaction area is designed to provide a player...

20060066053 - Game apparatus where darts are thrown into a projected video game image and software conducts the game progress by locating the darts with digital cameras: This invention describes an electronic amusement game where sensors locate the position of darts thrown by participants into a target board. The target board is not a traditional dart board but an uncolored dart board onto which is projected game images by a front projection monitor. The game locates the...

20060066054 - Washer game with an upright tube: A washer game with an upright tube has two targets spaced apart to test people's skill at throwing washers. The targets are round with concentric rings upon a flat base within a perimeter wall. Score value increases as ring diameter decreases. The centermost ring has a diameter to receive an...

20060066055 - Washer game with an upright tube: A washer game with an upright tube has two targets spaced apart to test people's skill at throwing washers. The targets are round with concentric rings upon a flat base within a perimeter wall. Score value increases as ring diameter decreases. The centermost ring has a diameter to receive an...

20060066056 - Device to count strikes: A device to count strikes, to be attached to one object that strikes another, such as a boxing glove, or to an object that is being stricken, such as a punching bag. The device comprises a structure for mounting the device to a striking object or an object being stricken....

20060055106 - Hockey game: I have invented an Improved Hockey Game. The preferred embodiment of the game comprises hingedly connected critically spaced upper and lower transparent plate assemblies, two corresponding sets of magnetically coupled playing pieces, with inner pieces slidably set between the plates and outer pieces slidably set on the outside surface of...

20060055107 - Amusement device for game play and lottery game utilizing the amusement device: An amusement device that is a game ticket in a lottery-type game is formed as a noisemaker that carries game indicia. The device includes a sealed envelope or bag having indicia for game play in the bag, preferably printed or attached to an inner surface of the bag. The envelope...

20060055108 - Double sided scratch-off lottery tickets and methods of manufacturing the same: A lottery ticket and continuous process of forming the same in which the front and rear surfaces of the lottery ticket and provided with scratch-off lottery games which may be accessed by the player without first having to remove a break-open window....

20060055109 - Roulette apparatus and roulette gaming machine: A roulette apparatus includes: a roulette wheel having a rolling region where a ball rolls; and a ball reception member provided contiguously to the rolling region to receive the ball. The ball reception member includes: a plurality of reception portions that receives the ball in one of the reception portions;...

20060055110 - Game capsule: A game includes a game capsule has dual purpose for providing a game status tracking element, and providing packaging and storage for a figure and other elements associated with the game. A figure structure including the figure associated with the game, which is attached to a substantially round base with...

20060055112 - Easy 9tm card game: Players place bets. A 36 card deck with the tens, Jacks, Queens, and Kings removed from a standard 52 card deck is dealt into eight piles of four cards each in front of a house dealer. A player/dealer chooses an action pile from the eight. A roll of three dice...

20060055111 - Educational card game: The present invention is a card game deck including a plurality of cards having a first card with a first set of multiple attributes and a second card having a second set of multiple attributes, the first set and the second set being mutually exclusive....

20060055113 - Multiplayer card tournaments and methods: The invention provides a multiplayer card tournament for playing on a communications network and methods for conducting and determining a winner of the tournament....

20060055114 - Electronic card table with hinged table top: A table game apparatus including a substantially planar table top having an upper surface and a lower surface extending to a border. The table top defines a centrally located electronic display. A plate is attached to the lower surface for supporting the table top. A support frame supports the table...

20060055115 - Portable kicking game: The portable kicking game includes a relatively small, portable playing sheet or mat having a representation of a playing field thereon. The playing sheet is preferably sufficiently small to provide for placement in a medium size room, a single parking space in a stadium parking lot, etc. A small, portable...

20060055116 - Fling-a-thing: The Fling-A-Thing game is a compilation of existing individial components or items that have never, to my knowledge, been used as a complete assembly to produce a marketed game for this form of entertainment....

20060049576 - Golf game and method: A portable golf game utilizing a rollable game piece. The game piece has a plurality of flat sides, so that upon rolling the game piece it will come to a resting position, displaying to the player(s) information on one of the flat sides. That information includes scoring information for golf...

20060049577 - Blackjack dice game: A blackjack dice game in which one or more players in successive turns rolls one or more dice to accumulate points towards a predetermined number of points, such as 21. Further, there is established a point value for a house, against which the one or more players wager, in a...

20060049578 - Let me roll sic bo: Let Me Roll Sic Bo is a dice game blended Sic Bo with traditional craps game. It is using three regular dice (cubes). Each die has six sides and different number of spots on it (from one to six). Each player will take a turn to shoot the dice follow...

20060049579 - Strap equipped with pointing unit: The present invention is a strap including a string-shaped unit, an attachment structure, a pointing unit, and a loop forming structure. The attachment structure is used to attach the string-shaped unit to an arbitrary device. The pointing unit is provided on the string-shaped unit in a movable or fixed manner....

20060049580 - Card game simulator: A card game simulator includes storage of a rules base having programming specific to enforcing rules of a number of discrete card games. The rules base may be internal to a main unit or may be a number of plug-in modules that are received by the main unit. The main...

20060049581 - Casino draw poker game: A method of playing a table based version of draw poker that allows the dealer and/or the player to draw a card. After seeing his or her cards, the player can choose a card from the player's hand to replace or the player can choose to keep all of the...

20060049582 - Card game, method of play: there's a moose in the house: Card game. This method of play employs unique variations of matching cards. Players alternately take turns, playing one card at a time populating their opponent's play area with one leading card to initiate the matching process. This is like an ante up. Once in place, players alternately take turns, playing...

20060043667 - Quick-change foosball table rod handles: A table soccer game includes quick-change handles attached to one end of each of the player-figure rods. Each rod is drilled near one end to retain a roll-pin that secures a handle core or adaptor. A variety of standardized, interchangeable handle shells can be quickly docked onto any of the...

20060043668 - Flat rate play contract price adjustments: According to some embodiments, systems, methods, and/or articles of manufacture are associated with operating a gaming device having a flat rate play session or contract costing a flat rate price. The flat rate play session or contract spans multiple plays on the gaming device over a pre-established duration. In some...

20060043669 - Poker style scratch-ticket lottery games: A lottery instant win game card simulating a Hold'Em Poker styled card game with multiple chances of winning for a player. The instant game card includes at least two sets of player hands and at least two sets of opponent hands, with at least two sets of community cards, and...

20060043670 - Scratch-ticket lottery and promotional games: A scratch-ticket game card simulating a instant Texas Hold'Em Poker game card with multiple chances of winning for a player. The instant game card includes plurality sets of player hands and a set of opponent hands, a set of community cards, and at least two prizes. The player can combine...

20060043672 - Entertainment system and method with wagering on playing card determinative outcomes: An amusement system and method for playing a table-based dice game utilizing playing cards to determine the final outcome of rolled dice. The system includes a pair of dice, and each die includes six faces bearing a visual representation of a number from one through six. The system also includes...

20060043671 - No-crap craps: crapless craps done right: Crapless Craps, a game that has existed for more than 20 years, is a modification of standard craps designed to eliminate the possibility of the pass line bettor losing on the come-out roll. However, it has several serious drawbacks that have prevented it from achieving significant popularity with the gambling...

20060043673 - Baseball team play organizer: The present invention provides a magnetic organizing apparatus for a baseball team. The organizing apparatus comprises a board, a frame, and a plurality of rectangular nameplates. The board has a perimeter and opposing surfaces. The frame is positioned around the board and is offset outward to a distance perpendicular to...

20060043674 - Three-dimensional game board with interlocking elements and mating accessories: The present invention is directed to a three-dimensional game board that can be built by a player. The three-dimensional game board may include a plurality of building components having at least one integrally formed hexagonal element, wherein adjacent hexagonal elements share a common side. The hexagonal elements may include a...

20060043675 - Board game designed to entertain and teach principles of law and legal reasoning: An educational law game kit that includes a game board marked with a plurality of indicia The game kit includes several different legal topic question card decks. Each of the legal topic question card decks represents a specific field of law. An additional question card deck encompasses a wider spectrum...

20060043676 - Space chess-jump point command: This invention is directed to a game of strategy and war set in a space theme. Each player has a fleet of at least 4 command ships and at least 12 corresponding jump point pieces that must be used to navigate the grid of the game board (space) by jumping...

20060043677 - Game apparatus and method: A strategy game providing an educational and entertaining activity for children, adults, illiterate people, dyslexic people and players who do not speak a common language. The game comprises a game board, tiles, and cards. The game board includes a plurality of branching runways extending from a common starting space and...

20060043678 - Craps game with novel proposition wagers: A casino craps table layout is provided with unique wagering opportunities. There are specific wagering areas for placing a wager on at least one of two new wagering opportunities. These new wagering opportunities are selected from the group consisting of a) a wager that the next roll of the dice...

20060043679 - Manufacturing component trading card: A collectible trading card (10) includes a manufacturing component (12) that is used in the manufacture of a collectible item (16), and a card body (14) that retains the manufacturing component (12). The manufacturing component (12) includes a component image (18) that is transferred to the collectible item (16) and...

20060043680 - Poker flash cards: Poker instructional flash cards arranged on a deck of fifty-two playing cards of standard casino size and shape that particularly correspond with the play of various kinds of poker games facilitating a player's ability to memorize and understand the correct response or playing action to common poker scenarios, as well...

20060043681 - Death and forensics trivia: We do hereby claim that Death and Forensics Trivia is a board game for adults containing factual trivia style questions and answers to be used as a fun and recreational form of entertainment. Each player will have a game piece which they will try to take around the game board...