Amusement devices: games inventions 01/07

20070018388 - Game piece and method of using the same: A game piece includes symbol identification areas, symbol definition areas, and a first symbol area. Each symbol identification area visually identifies a unique symbol, each symbol definition area is visually proximate to a corresponding symbol identification area and wherein each symbol definition area defines a prize that is represented by... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070018389 - Card reading system employing cmos reader: A method and an apparatus determines at least one of rank or suit of a playing card. The apparatus has at least one two-dimensional complementary metal oxide semiconductor imaging system that provides a signal when playing cards are moved over the system. The signal is a series of gray scale... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. Suite 205

20070018390 - Cheerleader action-figure board game: The present invention relates to an action-figure type board game wherein players advance their game pieces around a dividedly spaced instructional peripheral track in accordance with a die being thrown, subsequently allowing a player's poseable cheerleader figure to be launched and propelled gymnastically-like airborne at a plurality of athletic competition... Agent: Wallace M. Sumner

20070018391 - Game piece and method of playing game using same: A method of playing a game for two or more players comprising each player selecting a predetermined number of figures from a plurality of figures, a first player executing a turn, wherein the first player has an option of at least one of moving one of the first player's selected... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070018392 - Game for a hot tub, bath, or pool: A game includes a set of pieces. Each piece has a face that adheres temporarily to a wet surface of a hot tub, bath, or pool, can be slid around on the wet surface, and is removable from the wet surface. Each of the pieces bears a token. The tokens... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070018393 - Methods of playing drawing games and electronic game systems adapted to interactively provide the same: Methods of playing drawings games incorporating novel steps and electronic game systems configured for use with a video display and adapted to interactively provide novel methods of playing drawing games. Novel steps of the methods include: providing an award based at least in part on the number of continuous lines... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070018394 - Memory game and method of playing same: A memory game is shown similar to the game of concentration. However, each tile has a coding region associated therewith for players to aid their memories with mnemonic codes. Additional variations are disclosed, including limiting which indicia may be matched and removed on a given turn and the use of... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070018395 - Memory game piece: The present invention provides a game piece for playing the game Memory. The game piece has a system for customizing, changing, switching or replacing an image by using magnetism. The game piece is made from two components, the metallic cap and magnetic image. The metallic cap has a top portion... Agent: Dale Reinhart Scriven

20070018396 - Method for making iron golf club set: A method for making an iron golf club set includes selecting a plurality of iron golf clubs including a pitching wedge, wherein a difference in carry between each pair of golf clubs, which have consecutive club numbers, is substantially equal to a particular value; further selecting a minimum-carry golf club,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070018397 - Game piece and method of playing game using same: An article of manufacture for use by a player in a game or as a collectible figure, comprising a first portion comprising a representational figure and a second portion affixed to the first portion and comprising a coupling member arranged to be coupled with a preexisting support structure so that... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20070018405 - Apparatus and method of playing a game: An apparatus for playing a card game. The apparatus comprising a set of cards with each card showing a plurality of symbols and indicators, and the indicators being arranged relative to a sub-set of cards to define one or more hands. The hands of two or more players are then... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070018400 - Method of playing a bonus wager for poker games that have community cards: A method of playing a bonus wager for a poker game that has community cards wherein at least one card is dealt to each player hand and at least one card is dealt as community cards. A player wagering on the bonus wins if a subset of cards in a... Agent: Altman & Martin

20070018399 - Method of playing a poker-type game: A method of playing a poker-type game where two cards are revealed in each of a plurality of hands followed by a player wagering on at least one of the hands. Three community cards are revealed followed by a second round of wagering where the player must either raise or... Agent: Altman & Martin

20070018401 - Method of playing a poker-type game: A method of playing a poker-type game where a player wagers on a game that has two cards revealed in each of a plurality of hands. Three community cards are revealed followed by a second round of wagering where the player must either raise, check, or fold each of the... Agent: Altman & Martin

20070018402 - Method of playing a poker-type keno game: A method of playing a poker-type keno game where a player wagers on a game that has two cards revealed in each of a plurality of hands. The player wagers on one or more of the hands. Five community cards are revealed and are part of each hand. The winning... Agent: Altman & Martin

20070018404 - Poker game with dealer disqualifying hand: A method of playing a poker-type wagering game is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) placing a mandatory Ante bet to participate in a poker-type card game against a dealer hand; b) placing a mandatory Super Bonus bet on the occurrence of one of a predetermined plurality of... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. Suite 205

20070018398 - Two card draw poker casino game: A player is designated as the ‘banker’. The ‘banker’ moves clockwise from player to player as each game is completed. The dealer deals the first card to the player immediately clockwise of the player who is the ‘banker’. The cards are then continued to be dealt one by one in... Agent: Ming Pan Kao #74

20070018403 - Yangtze hold 'em and other poker games played with a chinese poker deck: Games (such as any poker game, whether it be draw poker, stud poker or a community card poker and, more particularly, a Texas hold 'em game or a variant in which players are either initially dealt four cards or the seventh card is dealt face down to individual players) normally... Agent: Roy L. Anderson, Esq. Law Offices Of Roy Anderson

20070018406 - Method of and apparatus for playing a card game: A deck of cards have conventional markings and at least some of the cards carry symbols associated with events in an independent game of chance.... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070018407 - Amusement device of skill and lottery: An arcade type amusement device is disclosed including a skill portion wherein a projectile such as a token is aimed at a target via a guidance mechanism such as an elongate chute. A deflector may be used to alter the path of the projectile, where the deflector is intermittently present... Agent: Fulwider Patton Lee & Utecht, LLP

20070013127 - Gaming apparatus and systems: Gaming apparatus, e.g. an Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) (1), includes a controller (2) for implementing a Sic Bo game. The controller (2) includes a display (5) on which is displayed a first dice tumbler (9) including a set of dice and betting board (10), as well as further dice tumblers... Agent: Inskeep Intellectual Property Group, Inc

20070013128 - Board game involving competition between people and animals: A method of playing a game involving competition between a person and a cat involves advancing a marker along a path of a game board and selecting an activity card from a plurality of activity cards if the marker lands on a predetermined space of the path. A person attempts... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070013129 - Fantasy soccer board game: A board game simulating fantasy soccer season is played by two or more players according to the general rules of fantasy soccer. The board game uses a game board with indicia thereon resembling a soccer field. A game path is formed on the game board, the game path being divided... Agent: Jeffrey Laporte Suite 405

20070013130 - Fantasy hockey board game: A board game simulating fantasy hockey season is played by two or more players according to the general rules of fantasy hockey. The board game uses a game board with indicia thereon resembling a hockey rink. A game path is formed on the game board, the game path being divided... Agent: Jeffrey Laporte

20070013131 - Chess-like game involving hidden information: A chess-like game involves hidden information. The information provided to a player of the game includes positions and types of game pieces on a) squares that are occupied by game pieces belonging to the player and squares that are diagonally adjacent thereto, b) squares to which one or more of... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20070013135 - Combination 3 card poker-baccarat gaming method and apparatus: A casino gambling card table game in which a player may bet that a next card dealt would provide a selected poker hand and/or a winning baccarat hand.... Agent: Charles I. Brodsky

20070013133 - Methods and apparatus for playing poker games: Methods and apparatus for playing poker are provided. The method includes a step of placing an ante bet for each of one or more hands to be played. The player may optionally place a side bet for each of the one or more played hands. The side bet is that... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070013134 - Novel deck of playing cards and methods for use: The present invention relates to a novel deck of playing cards and to various games that can be played therewith. In some embodiments, the cards of the deck are distinguishable from each other based on three different dimensions, rank, suit, and family. Some embodiments include additional cards such as jokers... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070013132 - Poker game and deck of cards for playing same: A variation of a poker game is shown, with a unique deck of cards. The deck inserts two additional values (11 and 12), and un-suits two values (10s and 11s). The play is substantially equivalent to that of Texas Hold 'Em except that the unsuited cards cannot be used to... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070013136 - Baseball instructional flash cards: Flash cards for teaching and learning the defensive game of baseball. Each flash card has an offensive situation presented on the front side (1), identifying; a basic baseball field layout (4), the basic starting location of the nine defensive players (2), the direction of travel and final location of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff

20070013137 - Target device: This invention comprises a target device for firing practice comprising at least one thermal target surface heated by an electrically current passing though same. The thermal target surface comprises a number of current coils (10) arranged so as to conduct the current from a first area (14) of the target... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070013138 - Target assembly for holding clay targets: A target assembly is provided for holding clay targets immobile. The assembly is comprised of a support member and one or more cutouts in the support member for frictionally holding clay targets.... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070013139 - Prize game apparatus: A prize game apparatus that has plural pairs of pickup arms and can adjust the distance between the pairs of pickup arms is provided. A prize game apparatus includes: a pickup unit capable of moving in specified directions; plural pairs of pickup arms attached to the pickup unit; an opening/closing... Agent: Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070007723 - Gaming machine and coin selection device: A coin selection device includes a coin path portion and a photo sensor. The coin path portion is formed so as to allow a passage of a coin due to its own weight. The photo sensor includes a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion to detect a coin... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070007724 - Puzzle assembly: The present invention includes a multi-level two or three dimensioned puzzle assembly applying multiple assembly techniques to join either a plurality of two-dimensional double or single sided pieces or a plurality of three-dimensional pieces. These pieces may be assembled in multiple levels, and joined in a mechanical or an electrical... Agent: June Kessler C/o Paradise Creative Corp.

20070007725 - Narrating games: The present disclosure is directed to narrating games and methods of playing narrating games. In some embodiments, the game includes a plurality of playing cards and a plurality of game boards. In some embodiments, the method includes selecting a first playing piece; telling a first part of a story; selecting... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070007726 - Game of people and their times: A game to reveal significant dates for extraordinary beings. The game comprises a game board including a time track comprising a plurality of sections distributed between a start space and an end space. A plurality of travel tokens move from the start space to the end space using means for... Agent: David O. Simmons Galasso & Associates Lp

20070007727 - Poker pad: A floating poker pad is provided that may be used on both land and water. The poker pad has a base member that has an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface of the floating poker pad has a slightly slopped central inner playing area for poker or... Agent: Philip T. Virga

20070007728 - Method of wagering: An underlying card game is played with an initial wager by a player on the underlying game and an optional wager on a higher-order outcome of the probabilities involved in the underlying game can be made. Specifically, the optional wager involves the likelihood of a player having the optimal initial... Agent: Steven H. Cohen

20070007729 - Couples interactive relationship game: Paired playing pieces move on steps along a path of a playing area through sections representing stages in a couple relationship in response to matching couple answers on writing surfaces in response to questions on cards from a beginning step through the stages to a winning step. Two individual pieces... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20070001395 - Card scrambling device: Aspects of the invention relate to fully automated systems and methods for shuffling and scrambling playing instruments, such as cards, before being dealt to one or more players. In one embodiment, a rotating device is utilized to scramble playing instruments. In yet a further embodiment, the rotating device is coupled... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070001396 - Method and apparatus for directing a game in accordance with speed of play: In accordance with the present invention, a gaming device such as a slot machine calculates a speed of game play, and in turn determines a pay schedule based on the speed of game play. The pay schedule for higher speeds of game play typically provides a higher payout percentage, which... Agent: Walker Digital

20070001397 - System and method for playing a game including a mortgaging option: A method and apparatus of playing a game provides a player with at least one option for playing at least one round of the game in accordance with at least one advantage and/or disadvantage. For example, a player may agree to play a current round of play and/or at least... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070001398 - System and method for playing a game including a mortgaging option: A method and apparatus of playing a game provides a player with at least one option for playing at least one round of the game in accordance with at least one advantage and/or disadvantage. For example, a player may agree to play a current round of play and/or at least... Agent: Michael D. Downs

20070001399 - Game, method of manufacture, and method of use: A manual game is provided which simulates American football. The game has a playing surface with multiple openings having indicia associated with football activities, and players toss game pieces at the surface in order to achieve football action determined by the indicia of the opening into which a game piece... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070001400 - Electronic scoring target board: A target (1) for use with a projectile has a web (7) defining a target face and a back board (29). The target face is divided into multiple segments (3, 5). A cup (19) filled with a projectile-receptive insert material (27) is mounted for sliding within each segment. Each cup... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20070001401 - Snapper illusory puzzle: The present invention provides the illusion that an elastic apparatus is hooked from within a base unit, wherein actually hooking the elastic apparatus is virtually impossible. An opposite end of a rod is inserted at least partway into a hole of a base unit using the handle end of the... Agent: Jonathon Richards Workman Nydegger