Amusement devices: games inventions 08/06

20060192332 - Conversation generator: A conversation promoting apparatus that includes a utilitarian object and at least one selectively actuatable microchip attached to the utilitarian object. Each actuatable microchip is preprogrammed with at least one signal that is emitted from the utilitarian object when the microchip is actuated....

20060192333 - Method and apparatus for playing a board and computer game: This invention is a game with a square game board having an even number of squares, but not less than ten, on each of four sides comprising; an even number of squares of alternating color; four Home-Ports; and two pair of Worm-Holes placed at each of the four corners. The...

20060192334 - Sporting event prediction and skill game: In a system and method for playing a game in conjunction with viewing an event, predictions are made regarding elements of the event, and physical activity simulating an element of the event is performed. The event may be a televised sporting event such as a football game. Predictions are preferably...

20060192338 - Game variant using suited aces: There is disclosed a card game variant. An opening wager is accepted from a first player. A first hand is dealt to the first player. A second hand is dealt to the second player. The first hand includes a first card and a third card. The second hand includes a...

20060192337 - Method of advertising financial services and interest rate dice: A pair of interest rate dice and a method of advertising financial services are disclosed. The dice include a pair of dice having a whole number on one die and a fraction on the other die. The method includes rolling the dice to demonstrate the potential variability of interest rates....

20060192339 - Method of playing blackjack: The present invention relates generally to card games and specifically, card games played for monetary gain in casinos. The game is an improvement over the traditional method of playing Blackjack or “21” in that it adds an incentive for a player to make a supplemental wager that also effects the...

20060192335 - Poker style game of forming words from playing cards having letters with corresponding point values: A method of playing a POKER style game, by dealing a plurality of playing cards to each of a plurality of players; and having the individual players bet against one another as to the perceived values of the playing cards they are each holding, wherein each playing card has a...

20060192336 - Rock cycle card game: A deck of specially designed cards used to teach the rock cycle though easy to play games. The deck contains cards with the titles of various rock types along with the names and pictures of specific rocks that fit into each type. The cards are color-coded to aid in differentiation...

20060192340 - Educational game and method of playing the same: A game and a method of playing the same are provided. The game includes a figurine and a set of a plurality of messages which messages together teach a story or topic. The method includes providing a figurine and a plurality of messages. The method further requires hiding the figurine...

20060186595 - Gaming machine: A gaming machine of the present invention has: a body supported by an outer frame to be attached to a game machine island in a game arcade, provided with a predetermined mechanism necessary to execute a game, and formed integrally with a speaker enclosure having an opening and enclosing a...

20060186596 - Shuffleboard court surface having multiple pimples for sliding a disc: A molded polymeric shuffleboard court has multiple closely spaced apart primary squares containing multiple secondary squares having open center portions to form a top surface for movement of a sliding disc. The secondary squares have an upwardly directed integrally molded pimple at each corner to reduce friction caused by the...

20060186597 - Enhanced casino craps game: A method of and rules for playing variations of Craps includes novel working bets including, for example, “Place Number” bets. The invention introduces bets for any one of one or more of the numbers 2, 3, 11 and 12 occurring before the number 7 occurs in the roll of dice;...

20060186598 - \"a.c triple-flop hold'em\" game: The invention is an “A.C Triple-Flop Hold'Em”, which is a version of the card game poker, which uses a standard 52 card deck. This game uses many of the same rules as the poker game “Texas Hold'Em” with a few variations to add to the excitement and to increase the...

20060186599 - Play four poker: A method of playing a four-card poker game by at least one player and a banker who is preferably also the dealer. The player has the option to wager against the dealer, wager against a predetermined payout schedule, or both. Additional options of a progressive wager and/or a bad beat...

20060186600 - System and method for playing community hand poker games utilizing dealer qualifying criteria: A system and method for facilitating play of a poker game utilizing dealer qualification criteria that impact the manner in which the game proceeds. The player(s) and dealer ante, and starting hands are dealt to the player(s) and dealer. The player may fold and lose the ante, or place a...

20060181021 - Gaming device base and method of use: A gaming device base having a storage area configured to store at least one non-currency gaming item is disclosed. The gaming device base further includes a horizontal support member having a substantially flat surface to support at least one gaming device. The gaming device base further has at least one...

20060181022 - Playing card shuffler with differential hand count capability: A programmable card handling machine with a display and appropriate inputs for adjusting the machine to any of a number of games comprises inputs including a number of cards per hand selector, a card game selector, a number of hands delivered selector and a trouble-shooting input. These features also provide...

20060181023 - Plastic kubb (coob) game & carrying case: Apparatus that interconnects the twenty-one pieces used to play the ancient backyard target-throwing game “kubb”, pronounced “coob”, into a portable self-contained carrying case that looks like a briefcase. An improvement over transporting kubb in heavy crates, boxes, or bags. To assemble: five throwing dowels fit horizontally through five evenly spaced...

20060181024 - Apparatus and method for gaming: An otherwise conventional craps table comprises a segment which allows a player to wager that one or more consecutive passes will be made in the next sequence of rolls of the dice, during the play of a craps game. An otherwise conventional craps table comprises a segment, which allows a...

20060181026 - Chinese poker deck: A deck of 52 cards has 27 cards with three sets of numbers 1-9 and suits circles, bamboo and script; another 20 twenty cards worth 10 made up of wind directions East (“E”), South (“S”), West (“W”) and North (“N”), plus a Green Dragon (“GD”), each having four identical cards;...

20060181025 - Method of bonus odds gaming: A method of including a bonus odds component in any wagering game with a plurality of players, wherein the initial game bet to participate in the wagering game pays out odds greater than a one to one ratio on the initial game bet in favor of the players, using a...

20060181027 - Taraccatm table card game: A game uses a deck of cards having three sets of cards with designations 1 through 9, five cards with a Feng Shui designation, four cards with a Green Dragon designation, four cards with an East Wind designation, four cards with a South Wind designation, four cards with a West...

20060181028 - Trivia games and related methods: A method of determining a score within the context of a game, the method comprising the steps of: (1) determining a best score that a player may achieve in regard to a particular trivia question, the trivia question having a correct answer; (2) presenting the particular trivia question to the...

20060175749 - Ball game having members with passageways: A game apparatus comprises a pair of side rails, a first passageway member having a bottom and a plurality of passageways communicating with the bottom. A second passageway member has a bottom and a plurality of passageways communicating with the bottom. There also is a backstop, the side rails having...

20060175750 - Game apparatus and methods employing wearable tracks: A game apparatus has a wearable track, a start cup and an end cup. The track is configured for maneuvering a ball through the track from the start cup to the end cup. The track may include milestones for gauging the progress of the ball through the course. The track...

20060175751 - Casino poker game rewarding low hands: A method of implementing a wagering game where low hands are rewarded. A player can place either or both of an ante wager and a bonus wager. If the dealer's hand is less than or equal to a predetermined rank, then the dealer qualifies and play continues, otherwise the ante...

20060175752 - Multifunctional cylindrical sliding block jigsaw puzzle: A cylindrical sliding block jigsaw puzzle includes a barrel as a support; multiple arcuate sliding blocks combined together to construct a pattern on an outer periphery of the barrel; and an immovable sliding block detachably attached to an empty area defined in the outer periphery of the barrel. Beside being...

20060175753 - Electronic game board: An electronic game board is provided for use in a DVD gaming system including a DVD player where DVD media incorporating commands and audio visual content is accessed by the DVD player as part of game play. The electronic board may be used with play pieces and the board may...

20060175754 - Hierarchical, multi-dimensional, strategy board game apparatus and playing method: A hierarchical, multi-dimensional, strategy board game apparatus includes game boards having game spaces, posts for supporting the board members, and game pieces including a static piece, a pawn-like piece, a first promotion piece, and a second promotion piece. In playing the game, a base board is designated, along with a...

20060175755 - Child educational board game: My child educational board game, “Connect Words”, requires a child to think critically in finding different ways in which words can be created by not only adding lettered chips to a grid during his or her turn but also by finding what words can emerge from combining letters already in...

20060175757 - Board game: A method of playing a word forming game for two to four players utilizing a game board marked off in a grid pattern. There are a plurality of tiles, equally distributed between the players, having various letters imprinted thereon. Such game board having the word CHANGIT reading left to right...

20060175756 - Word puzzle: A word puzzle combines an intersecting word puzzle with scrambled word play by presenting clues for word answers as scrambled words....

20060175758 - Team poker game: A team-poker tournament includes having at least two teams play poker either for a predetermined period of time, a predetermined number of hands, or until the members of one team have no chips remaining. A team captain may call a timeout and implement strategic moves....

20060175759 - Zardz: A series of slits along the perimeter of flat, flexible objects in that the objects can be connected together in a variety of ways for entertainment and/or functional benefit....

20060175760 - Balloon bursting game: A balloon-bursting game for providing amusement to individuals at events by striking a pneumatic striker to inflate the balloon until it bursts. The inventive device includes a striker mechanism for pneumatically compressing air into an air tube when struck or depressed, a vertical shaft comprised of a base structure and...

20060170152 - Football playing table: A football playing table includes a platform, a plurality of doll players, an artificial sod, and a ball. The artificial sod is located between the bottom plate of the platform and the ball to increase the height of the ball relative to the bottom plate and each of the doll...

20060170153 - Bingo-style lottery game ticket: A scratch-off lottery game card that simulates the rules of the game of Bingo. On the card, there is a first set of game indicia of a first type arranged in a grid that has at least one row of cells having a indicia of a second type with a...

20060170155 - Method and apparatus for playing roulette with active working wagers: A method and apparatus for playing casino-style roulette that offers players the option of placing specific wagers that limit the winning and losing outcomes to a subset of all possible outcomes for any given spin of the roulette wheel. Using a system of tokens to indicate the unique betting scenarios,...

20060170154 - Roulette device and game control method: A roulette device including: a roulette plate having a plurality of marks arranged thereon; a ball which rolls on the roulette plate; a plurality of ball receiving parts which are formed corresponding to the marks in a circumferential direction of the roulette plate to receive the ball; a bank passage...

20060170156 - Puzzles and other two dimensional visual designs made from distinctively shaped pieces: A picture is divided into individual sections each having a distinctive visual design element (such as geometric patterns, abstract designs, cartoons, and/or photographic images, possibly with variations in color, texture, orientation, and/or proportion). The division into sections preferably follows defined lines and borders in the original design image, but a...

20060170157 - Spin art apparatus and method for producing and illuminating a decorative image: An apparatus and a method of producing a decorative image are provided. The apparatus may include a rotatable platform, an upstanding wall extending around a perimeter of the platform, and an illumination source configured to illuminate the platform. The platform may secure an activity surface, and a motor may be...

20060170158 - Board game with audible timer: A game is provided including a board, player pieces, and a play control mechanism. The play control mechanism includes a timer portion and a move-determining portion. Players move their player pieces along board spaces based on instructions from the move-determining portion as long as the timer portion is running. Once...

20060170159 - Board games with player-wearable costume components: Board games may include a game board, player movers, and indicia-bearing tokens and player-wearable costume components including one or more mounting sites to which the tokens may be removably attached. Some embodiments may further include game pieces having indicia indicating one or more of the tokens. Thus, some methods of...

20060170160 - Card game: A card deck, according to the present invention comprises a 51 card set of double sided individual cards comprising 48 symbol cards and three timer cards. Each symbol card comprises a first symbol side and a second symbol side. The symbols may be any symbol, such as numbers, suits, shapes...

20060170161 - Family board game: The present invention provides a game activity for family gatherings that is simultaneously challenging to both children and adults, yet capable of being tailored to the relative skill level of each participant. It comprises a game board with at least one tile track and a set of tiles. The tile...

20060170162 - Ten0: Ten0 is an entertaining, multi-level card game involving the findamentals of math. It is inclusive of four operands that are central to the game. The Ten0 also features a Ten0 scale reading and special cards. One of the unique features of this game is that it is an educational game...

20060170163 - Roping training device speed roper: A roping practice device for training headers and heelers is provided. The present training device generally comprises a vehicle-pulled sled unit, a pivotal vertical support unit, and a main frame unit, pivotal about the vertical support unit to allow for offset positioning of the main frame to mimic the natural...

20060170164 - Prize acquisition game apparatus and operation system thereof: Foremost provided is a prize acquisition game apparatus capable of alleviating the burden of the difficulty adjustment operation, and secondly provided is an operating system of a prize acquisition game apparatus capable of promoting the efficiency in operating a prize acquisition game apparatus. In each of the prize acquisition game...