Amusement devices: games inventions 07/06

20060163804 - Player peg: The object of the invention is a player peg (A) intended to be moved by hand along the track groove (T) of a game board (S). The player peg (A) stays in the track groove (T) with the help of the button-like (B) base located at the bottom end of...

20060163805 - Gaming device: A gaming apparatus that is operable by a player in a slot mode and a pinball mode. In the slot mode the player operates a slot machine to display different combinations of symbols. In the pinball mode the player operates a pinball machine having a flipper and a play area...

20060163806 - Game machine and program: A gaming machine having rotation control means for controlling a base member so that the base member is counterclockwise and clockwise rotatable, a first lottery ball introducing device for throwing in a lottery ball in substantially the same direction as a direction vector when the base member is rotated, a...

20060163807 - Systems and methods for card games that simulate non-card casino table games: Methods and systems for conducting gaming activities are disclosed. In one method, wagers are placed on a game and cards are dispensed. An indicia of a play card is used to determine an outcome of the game. A feature bet is included, wherein if the indicia of the play card...

20060163808 - Playing card apparatus and method of concealing and displaying playing cards: A playing card apparatus and method for discreetly displaying values on faces of playing cards while in a face down orientation to a player. The apparatus has a housing with a playing card support surface with an opening over which the playing cards are placed face down. A first mirror...

20060163809 - Jigsaw puzzle assembly: A jigsaw puzzle includes a base and multiple puzzle piece blocks detachably mounted on top of the base. The puzzle piece blocks are composed of corner puzzle piece blocks each having a first marking to show that the corner puzzle piece block is located at a corner of the base,...

20060163810 - Magic cube: A magic cube includes a larger cubic block formed by a plurality of smaller cubic blocks. The larger cubic block has six larger faces each having nine smaller faces, wherein a central one of the nine smaller faces is indicated by a circular pointed marking ranged from 1 (one) to...

20060163811 - Jigsaw puzzle assembly: A jigsaw puzzle includes a base and multiple puzzle piece blocks detachably mounted on top of the base. The puzzle piece blocks are composed of corner puzzle piece blocks each having a first marking to show that the corner puzzle piece block is located at a corner of the base,...

20060163812 - Physically interactive game for partners: A game playing method and apparatus for partners generally comprises a playing surface including a plurality of targets and selection means for selecting a target. Each target includes a depiction of a person performing a physical interaction with a partner or an object specifying the physical interaction to be performed...

20060163813 - Game with rotating pointer: A game wherein players move their game pieces across two pathways and try to move their player mover onto a movable target mover while avoiding the aim of a rotating pointer. Moreover, the game may be portable. In some cases, the game apparatus may be carried in a plastic case...

20060163814 - Card game: A method for a card game based on the popular kid's hand game called Rock, Paper, Scissors. The game uses custom cards that have images which represent the symbols for Rock, Paper, and Scissors as well as a custom layout that indicates where the player's cards go and where they...

20060163816 - Poker game: A conventional deck of fifty-two playing cards is modified by the addition of at least one extra card which can be of any of the conventional card ranks, which can be of a fifth suit or a duplicate of one of the conventional cards and which is preferably an Ace....

20060163815 - Trading card game including trading card having a selectively unexposed section: A trading card game (10) includes a first card (212) having only one immovable section (234). The game (10) also includes a second card (314) including a first section (352) and a second section (354). The second section (354) can be slidable relative to the first section (352) so that...

20060157927 - Enhanced big wheel game: A method of operating a Big Wheel game is provided. Primary player wagers on potential game outcomes are initially received from participating players. One or more potential game outcomes comprise a bonus feature. Additional player wagers on the game outcome comprising the bonus feature are received from at least one...

20060157928 - Enhanced roulette: A method of operating a roulette game is provided. The roulette game has betting means to allow players to select and place wagers on potential game outcomes. The method comprises the step of determining, after all the wagers have been made and before the outcome of the roulette game is...

20060157929 - Game chip rack: The present invention provides a game chip rack for use in card game. The game chip rack includes a first portion including a plurality of game chip slots, each of the plurality of game chip slots configured to receive a plurality of game chips. A second portion is rotatably mounted...

20060157930 - Automatic card shuffler and dealer: An automatic system for shuffling and distributing cards includes two embodiments one includes fixed and rotating plates on which a deck of cards is supported. That device can be placed on table. Shuffling is achieved by plurality of card magazines and delivery trays located on the rotating plate. The fixed...

20060157931 - Card game: A method of playing a card game includes the steps of: providing n number of cards from a deck of cards to each player; requiring each player to select and remove x number of cards from their n number of cards to make a card hand of x number of...

20060157933 - Card game: A parlor or casino card game for a plurality of players incorporates each player's placing an ante into a pot, dealing a hand to each player, participating in a round of betting, and then playing hands by collecting combinations of standard playing cards to form melds which may be laid...

20060157935 - Diejack: An option in the card game of Blackjack according to which the player pays a fee to buy the option to roll a single die and the outcome, a number between one and six, inclusive, is added to the total point value of the player's cards....

20060157932 - Mathematics game and method: A method for playing a mathematics game includes the steps of providing playing cards including a plurality of numeric cards, at least one operational card, and at least one equal sign card; constructing a numeric sentence framework; dealing a select number of the plurality of numeric cards to a select...

20060157934 - Multiple site poker tournament: A tournament for a poker-type card game is played at multiple sites to determine players in a final tournament. Each multiple site location plays at least a first round of a qualifying event, and an at least second round of advancing players may be used top further narrow the number...

20060157936 - Multiple way stud poker games: A player makes a wager which is allocated among a plurality of stud poker hands to be played by the player. One of the wagers is allocated to a full hand of cards and the other wagers are allocated among poker hands that are comprised of various subsets of the...

20060157937 - Target device: A target device is worn by a user in a game comprising projectiles covered with either hook or loop fasteners. The device includes a supporting element for being supported on the user which carries target panels having a target surface covered with hook or loop fasteners for mating connection with...

20060157938 - Archery target: An archery target having a first and a second elongated support plate extending parallel to one another between a respective first and second plate ends. Each of the support plate having a support-plate length, inner surfaces facing one another and outer surfaces opposed to the inner surfaces. Each plate further...

20060151943 - Lottery game utilizing nostalgic game themes: A method for hosting and playing a lottery game using nostalgic game themes. The lottery game, in one embodiment emulating Pac-Man®, comprises a player selecting a path on a grid, and a lottery populating the path with numbers either generated randomly or selected by the player. The lottery also randomly...

20060151944 - On-line lottery game in which supplemental lottery-selected indicia are available for purchase: There is provided a lottery game with a supplemental game. The player plays the lottery game by selecting a plurality of numbers and the player also has the option of playing the supplemental game. The lottery authority selects a set of winning numbers for the lottery game and also selects...

20060151945 - Nozzle for a random selection machine: A nozzle has a body provided with multiple laminar flow passages to generate multiple laminar flows when air is exhausted from the nozzle into a barrel of a random selection machine. When air is blown into a barrel through the nozzle, the airflow exhausting out from the blower will be...

20060151946 - Automatic card shuffling and dealing device: A card shuffling and dealing device has a housing which has a card exit at its front end and two feeder trays at its rear portion for holding respective stacks of cards. The feeder trays have card entrances facing generally in the same direction into the housing. A card shuffler...

20060151947 - Jigsaw puzzle game system: A jigsaw puzzle game system has a number of inter-fitting pieces which combine to create a finished visual effect. None of the puzzle pieces are interchangeable. All pieces have identical top and bottom surfaces and thus could be used on either side. The pieces do not carry a visual marker...

20060151948 - Russian roulette board game: A board game played with multiple players, all moving their respective pieces down a path of squares, towards the finish square. The first player to reach this finish is the game winner. The number of forward moves will be determined by spinning the roulette wheel, and where the ball drops,...

20060151949 - Football board game: A football board game may be played with a football board, a pair of dice, and a coin or other device suitable as a marker. The coin is placed on a starting position, each player rolls a die, and the resulting die values are compared to determine the amount by...

20060151950 - Two-sided novelty product simulating sport object: A sport themed novelty item includes a disc member having a first side and a second side. The first side has at least one of a surface material or a texture relating to the sport, and the second side includes an indentation or “worry groove.” In use, a user holds...

20060151954 - Method and apparatus for playing blackjack with active working wagers: A variation of the card game of Blackjack that offers predetermined side wagers. The side wagers include wagering options for or against the dealer forming a final hand value of 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 or blackjack before the dealer forms a final hand value that exceeds 21 (also known...

20060151952 - Method for playing a poker game: A wagering game for casinos consisting of 1) participation by placing a wager; 2) a table games dealer who delivers multiple cards to all wagering players; 3) the table games dealer delivering three community cards; 4) resolution of all cards played based upon predetermined combinations of cards; 5) paying all...

20060151955 - Method of playing card games: In the method of playing a card game, involving a dealer and at least one player provided are more than one pack of cards, preferably at least two packs of card. The player makes a stake on the fact that the player's game combination will be greater than the dealer's....

20060151951 - Playing cards with suit-based color tones: A poker playing card deck includes fifty two cards divided into four equal suits, namely, hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs. The cards having the following color arrangement: (a.) a first suit with a red predominant color spectrum wavelength; (b.) a second suit with a predominant color spectrum wavelength red, pink,...

20060151953 - Recipe playing cards: The present invention is a standard deck of playing cards with a theme. The deck contains four English suits: spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. Each suit includes an ace, king, queen, jack, and ranks ten through two, with each card depicting the symbol of its suit. Each of the face...

20060151956 - Hand held basketball paddle game device / design: This game in paddle ball designs can be manufactured the platform playing surface can be of wood and or plastics it can be of any material capable of being molded to this design. the ball and the band are of rubber firmly attached to the platform playing surface in a...

20060151957 - Dartboard with detachable signs: A dartboard has a board member and a plurality of signs. The board member has a central target and a plurality of target sections on a front side thereof. The signs are detachably mounted on a periphery of the board member associated with the target sections respectively....

20060145417 - Device and method for forming and delivering hands from randomly arranged decks of playing cards: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into plural hands of cards, wherein each of the hands contains a random arrangement of cards. The apparatus comprises a card receiver for receiving the first group of cards, a single stack...

20060145418 - Polyhedral puzzle: A polyhedral puzzle has basic pieces that connect and form polyhedrons. The present invention serves as a puzzle solved by the geometric relationship between the pieces. The pieces have four triangular members and each member has a primary and a secondary form. The members connect with positioners interlocking with notches...

20060145419 - Jump for music game: This is a musical rhythms game whereby players move to rhythms of music notation placed on a staff. There are two separate versions—a floor and table top version, which are designed to help players develop more rhythmic awareness and to create a better understanding of how music notation works on...

20060145420 - Pattern formation board game: A pattern formation board game and method of play are presented. The present invention includes a board having a play area with a plurality of overlapping substantially circular patterns thereon. Circular patterns are composed of a plurality of interlocking spaces including two geometric shapes. Game pieces are substantially identical in...

20060145421 - Board game incorporating doll play: A game is provided including a board, player pieces, and collectible articles associated with the player pieces. The player pieces navigate the game board to collect a predetermined set of articles, which may be coupled to the player pieces. The first player to complete the collection wins....

20060145422 - Structure for a table game: A structure for a board game, constituted of a regular geometrically shaped body with a vertical axis of symmetry. This body is horizontally subdivided into independent levels (1 to 6), rotational about the axis of symmetry of the body, and they have recesses (7) on the side surfaces in which...

20060145424 - Method of playing a card game: A card game played against a dealer by other players. A hand begins by placement of low and high hand bets by the other players, dealing one card face down as a low hand, and four cards face down for combination with the one card to form a high hand,...

20060145423 - Stereo playing card: The present invention provides a stereo playing card, the provided stereo playing card comprises a multi-faced main body having a top surface and a bottom surface wherein the top surface of the multi-faced main body has engraved figures symbolizing the denomination of spare, club, heart, and diamond....

20060145425 - Modern minoan bull leaping game (mmbl): The invention of Modern Minoan Bull Leaping is to accurately and precisely depict the Minoan frescos as a performing art, which has certain marketable qualities such as sex appeal ,and portraying the modern game using a cooperative philosophy of agape (sacrificial love) rather than competition....