Amusement devices: games inventions 09/06

20060208419 - Novel games, and methods and apparatus for game play in games of chance: The inventions herein relate to novel games of chance and apparatus and methods for their play. In one embodiment, a multi-level game of chance is played by presenting the player with multiple options, where there is at least one positive option and at least one negative option. By way of...

20060208420 - Create-a-room board game: This board game gives children the freedom to use their creative minds....

20060208421 - Dice board game: The dice board game is played on a game board having two opposite peripheral sides defining rows of base positions. Each base position is an opponent's goal position. Each player designates the order and point value of his base positions before the start, with base position order and values and...

20060208422 - Folding table: A foldable game surface includes a first and a second support structure disposed proximate each other along at least one common edge. An elastomeric layer, preferably neoprene or the like, is disposed along substantially an entire top surface of the support structures such that the elastomeric layer hingedly connects the...

20060208423 - Cards and card games: A method and apparatus to play poker or blackjack games that include novel playing cards that do not have non-descriptive backs and novel card arrangements with multiple hands sharing a common card. The novel cards have a first view showing either the suit or rank of the cards but not...

20060208425 - Bullet trap: A bullet trap is disclosed which is formed without intervening sidewalls to enable cross-shooting and the like with reduced risk or ricochet or damage to the bullet trap. Furthermore, the bullet trap can be configured in a variety of ways to eliminate the need for facing plates while providing a...

20060208424 - Projectile retrieval system: A projectile retrieval system includes one or more valves disposed to selectively release projectiles from a bullet stop and containment system. The valves are in pneumatic communication with a tube which utilized a negative air pressure generated by a vacuum to move the projectiles from the valves to a central...

20060202414 - Table hockey: A table hockey game includes a table having a top face composed of a top layer having multiple through holes defined through the top layer and a bottom layer sandwiching with the top layer a space in communication with the through holes, the bottom layer having therein a cavity and...

20060202415 - Bonus play method for a gambling device: A method for playing a gaming device where selected bets enable various bonuses. In the preferred embodiment 5 different bonuses are offered depending on credit per line bets, and said bonuses may occur in combination....

20060202416 - Method of a progressive payout dice game: A method of playing a betting dice game with a progressive payout is disclosed. The game includes three dice and a game table with up to four wager zones for players to place a bet on. The wager zones correspond to a sum of the dice. Payout to a winning...

20060202417 - Game for teaching fundamental aspects of network marketing: A board game used to teach players about the fundamental aspects of network marketing. The game includes a game board having tiles corresponding to various networking principle cards that teach basics on prospecting, personal development, downline development and the inevitable challenges. The prospecting and personal development cards allow the players...

20060202418 - Heaven bound is a biblical knowledge board game: Heaven Bound enhances the board game market by adding variety and innovation to the learning process of the written word of God taken from the King James Version Holy Bible. Heaven Bound also adds a moralistic view of the process of accomplishment in life by a succession of steps determined...

20060202419 - Truck line building board game and method of play thereof: A truck line building board game for learning major highway travel routes and for learning to build and manage a truck line, wherein players travel a map board along major highways between a starting city and a destination city, and obtain payment for the distance travelled. Money earned is utilized...

20060202420 - Advanced chess game called magi chess: An advanced chess game called Magi Chess provides a square chessboard having 100 contiguous playing squares. A plurality of conventional chess pieces that includes two Rooks, two Bishops, two Knights, a King, a Queen, and 10 Pawns are provided for each player. Also included are non-conventional chess pieces that include...

20060202421 - Game and method of playing the game: A method of playing a game having multiple rounds between a plurality of players. The method includes initiating a first phase of the game, the first phase including selecting a plurality of words, scrambling the letters from each word of the plurality of words on a game board, passing the...

20060202422 - Method and apparatus for verifying players' bets on a gaming table: A method and apparatus for verifying players' bets on a gaming table is comprised of a system that can detect the monetary value of a wager that is placed by a particular player at a gaming table. Once all betting is finalized, the detected monetary value of the players' bets...

20060202423 - Battle card game: Provided herein is a battle card game in which players can concentrate on the progress of a game. A combination card set comprising four cards CC1-CC4 is included in a plurality of cards forming a deck. Each of the cards CC1-CC4 has an image indication field 53 and a layout...

20060202424 - Activity sets: A play activity set including a target at which objects may be directed, a plurality of objects for throwing at the target, the plurality of objects including at least a first object with a first opening therethrough and a second object with a second opening therethrough, in one particular aspect...

20060202425 - Archery target with covering layer: An archery target with a covering layer and a method of making the same. One or more target elements are arranged in at least one stack. The target elements include side edges oriented toward a target face. A polymeric covering layer extends across the side edges to comprise the target...

20060202426 - Apparatus for supporting a goal upright: An apparatus for use with goals, preferably soccer goals, includes a support (101) that is capable of preventing the rotation of the goal, particularly when the goal is tipped, and is movably connected an upright (103). When a goal is tipped, gravity causes the support (101) that is hingedly connected...

20060202427 - Computer skills challenge game methodology: A game allows contestants to access the Internet to answer questions, including solving problems. Contestants compete to quickly find answers to questions (and/or solutions to problems) using the Internet, with the first contestant to answer winning a prize or scoring points for that question. A contestant may be an individual...

20060197278 - Soccer table with special entertainment effect: The present invention provides a soccer table with special entertainment effect. The table frame of the soccer table has a table board, two long frames and two short frames mounted on the four sides of the table board. A predetermined number of control shanks are passing through the two long...

20060197279 - Gaming machine with second display: A gaming machine operable to play a base game and a second game; the gaming machine including a first display adapted to display progress and results of the base game; the gaming machine further including a second display adapted to display progress and results of the second game; the base...

20060197280 - Auror cards game: The Auror Cards Game is a unique fortune telling game consisting of eight Auror Cards used as random positional identifiers that place eight randomly selected tarot cards, from any fortune telling deck, into eight prognosticative location boxes, which collectively form a letter “A” pattern on a game board. A psychic...

20060197281 - Methods and apparatus for solving mathematical problems for entertainment: A game including a game board with a game travel path defined thereon, a game token moveably placeable on the game travel path, and a move generator associated with the game comprising numbers, mathematical operators, mathematical operations, variables, and variable values. A method of constructing a move includes forming the...

20060197282 - Game with mementos and destiny index: The invention comprises a board game in which each player moves a playing piece along a continuous path, where the moves are determined by, for example, a roll of one or more dice. The path may be subdivided into spaces, some of which may require various actions by the players....

20060197283 - Lottery-type gaming system for simulating an actual casino game: A lottery-type gaming system simulating a traditional casino game, and a method of using same. Traditional casino card games, wherein winning hands are determined by combining specific, unshared playing cards dealt to individual players, with community cards shared among a plurality of such players, are simulated in the environment of...

20060197284 - Card game: A skinning card game. The game includes a marked playing surface, one or more standard decks of playing cards, a spinning wheel, and chips. The marked playing surface is provided with several identical player grids and a dealer grid. Each player and dealer grid contains a total of thirteen chip...

20060197286 - Blackjack variations: A method and computer readable storage medium to play an improved variation of blackjack. The method includes (a) receiving an original wager for the blackjack game; (b) dealing a player's hand and a dealer's hand; (c) finishing the game; and (d) if the player's hand ties the dealer's hand then...

20060197285 - Sentence forming game: A gaming system includes a set of cards wherein each card is marked with a plurality of words or phrases. The words or phrases in the plurality of cards include various parts of speech so that complete sentences can be formed by playing selected cards adjacent one another....

20060197278 - Soccer table with special entertainment effect: The present invention provides a soccer table with special entertainment effect. The table frame of the soccer table has a table board, two long frames and two short frames mounted on the four sides of the table board. A predetermined number of control shanks are passing through the two long...

20060197279 - Gaming machine with second display: A gaming machine operable to play a base game and a second game; the gaming machine including a first display adapted to display progress and results of the base game; the gaming machine further including a second display adapted to display progress and results of the second game; the base...

20060197280 - Auror cards game: The Auror Cards Game is a unique fortune telling game consisting of eight Auror Cards used as random positional identifiers that place eight randomly selected tarot cards, from any fortune telling deck, into eight prognosticative location boxes, which collectively form a letter “A” pattern on a game board. A psychic...

20060197281 - Methods and apparatus for solving mathematical problems for entertainment: A game including a game board with a game travel path defined thereon, a game token moveably placeable on the game travel path, and a move generator associated with the game comprising numbers, mathematical operators, mathematical operations, variables, and variable values. A method of constructing a move includes forming the...

20060197282 - Game with mementos and destiny index: The invention comprises a board game in which each player moves a playing piece along a continuous path, where the moves are determined by, for example, a roll of one or more dice. The path may be subdivided into spaces, some of which may require various actions by the players....

20060197283 - Lottery-type gaming system for simulating an actual casino game: A lottery-type gaming system simulating a traditional casino game, and a method of using same. Traditional casino card games, wherein winning hands are determined by combining specific, unshared playing cards dealt to individual players, with community cards shared among a plurality of such players, are simulated in the environment of...

20060197284 - Card game: A skinning card game. The game includes a marked playing surface, one or more standard decks of playing cards, a spinning wheel, and chips. The marked playing surface is provided with several identical player grids and a dealer grid. Each player and dealer grid contains a total of thirteen chip...

20060197286 - Blackjack variations: A method and computer readable storage medium to play an improved variation of blackjack. The method includes (a) receiving an original wager for the blackjack game; (b) dealing a player's hand and a dealer's hand; (c) finishing the game; and (d) if the player's hand ties the dealer's hand then...

20060197285 - Sentence forming game: A gaming system includes a set of cards wherein each card is marked with a plurality of words or phrases. The words or phrases in the plurality of cards include various parts of speech so that complete sentences can be formed by playing selected cards adjacent one another....