Amusement devices: games inventions 05/07

20070120320 - Gaming device having a wheel-based game: A gaming device including at least one wagering station and a rotor. The rotor supports a series of symbols arranged about a center. The rotor also supports a series of landings arranged adjacent to the series of symbols. In operation, at least one ball travels along the rotor and eventually... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20070120321 - Card dispenser and storage and method for dispensing and storing cards: A dispenser and storage system for cards allows a user to store, dispense, hold, and play a game of cards even when the dealer must hold the deck in one hand or in a windy environment. The system includes a container adapted to store at least one card, a cutout,... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Blanco, Pl

20070120322 - Method of playing a poker-type scratch ticket game: A method of playing a poker-type scratch ticket game where a scratch ticket has a plurality of two-card starter hands and five community cards. A player reveals any unrevealed playing cards. Each starter hand is combined with the community cards to form complete hands. The player is paid a predetermined... Agent: Altman & Martin

20070120323 - Method of playing an educational \"smart game\": A Smart game is a type of an educational game that provides an unlimited horizon of information and knowledge, which can be utilized to motivate and stimulate the intellectuality of the players. The smart game is perfectly fit to teach and educate children about the knowledge and information surrounding them.... Agent: Johan Guntur L.

20070120324 - Playing cards: A deck of game playing cards is disclosed containing approximately 104 playing cards, each card having a back side which is similar to each of the other playing cards such that the cards cannot be distinguished by observing the back side, and a front side containing an indication of location,... Agent: Valauskas & Pine Suite 4130

20070114719 - Board game assembly and playing techniques: A board game assembly and related game playing method is described herein. The board game assembly includes a base, a dividing wall structure extending from the base, and a plurality of removable polygonal blocks, each having a grid of holders for playing pieces. The base and dividing wall structure retain... Agent: Tony Magnussen

20070114722 - Board game named tora: “Tora” is a classical strategy board game, constructed as a two-tiered, three-pronged, battlefield simulation. Using 7, 27 or 28 classical pieces at their disposal, players have the option to contend on a limited (9.times.9) or expanded (17.times.17) field of contest to determine the future course of history.... Agent: Leyendecker Lemire & Daley, LLC

20070114720 - Chess set for the blind: A chess set for blind players. The board includes squares having different tactile patterning to distinguish different colors. Each square contains a hole extending through the board. A border includes indicia, both visual and tactile, to indicate the file and rank. The bottom of the board includes the holes which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070114721 - Method and manufacture for text and illustration checkerboard design: This invention describes methods for the design of checkerboards comprising two or more square patterns, one pattern being characterized by the predominant use of illustration, the second pattern being characterized by the predominant use of text. The invention also describes a method to generate a physical embodiment of the checkerboards... Agent: Guy M. Besson Suite 201

20070114723 - Dealer and player hand combination side wager: A method of playing a side game is provided in combination with a game of chance such as Pai Gow Poker where a dealer hand of playing cards is dealt to a dealer and a player hand of playing cards is dealt to a player. The method includes receiving a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070114724 - Modular ballistic wall and target system: A modular target system utilizes standard sized pieces which may be releasably attached to form a target system. The size of the target system may be easily customized as well as the number and types of targets which are mounted to the target system.... Agent: Randall B. Bateman BatemanIPLaw Group

20070114725 - Skill cranes and other amusement vending machines having visual targeting systems: Laser-based and non-laser-based visual targeting systems for use with skill cranes and other amusement vending machines are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an amusement vending machine includes a see-through enclosure containing at least one prize. A user-operable controller, such as a joystick, positioned on the outside of the enclosure is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070108700 - Playing a game of chance in space: A method of playing a game of chance in space is claimed. A container houses a plurality of uniquely identifiable game pieces and the preferred embodiment utilizes balls. The balls are moved in a random fashion. Periodically a ball is removed and the value on the ball is identified. The... Agent: Franklin E. Gibbs, Esq. Bigelow Aerospace

20070108701 - Apparatus and method for constructing number puzzles: An apparatus and method for constructing the two-dimensional five-number puzzle is provided wherein the twenty-five cubes, each with numbered indicia from “1” to “5”, are positionable in a five-times-five relationship grid that forms twenty-five square recesses arranged in five horizontal and five vertical rows intersecting each other, and a plurality... Agent: Keren Gu

20070108703 - Card and selection device games: A method of playing a game is disclosed. The game may include a plurality of cards and a selection device, the selection device configured to be activated by a user to select a supplemental action from a plurality of supplemental actions. The method may include viewing a first card having... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070108702 - No push card game: A card game has three card hands in a round. A player may change a single card in the three-card hand. A player compares three card hands for hand strength first categorizing hands into classes; wherein the highest special hand is the three of a kind. The second highest special... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070102876 - Virtual goal for a game table: A game table for playing a game with a game piece including a playing surface, a first endwall extending generally perpendicularly from the playing surface and a second endwall extending generally perpendicularly from the playing surface at an opposite side of the playing surface from the first endwall. The game... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070102877 - Apparatus and methodology for sports square wagering: One possible embodiment of the invention could substantially be a system and methodology for a pari-mutuel form of sports square wagering, which may utilize a wager format and a wager processing center. The wagering format, having paper and electronic forms, could be used to communicate wagering information to the wager... Agent: John D. Long Patent Counsel

20070102878 - Playing card system: A playing card system is disclosed comprising a face side displaying markings, which can be hidden and revealed by an adjustable barrier. A set of these playing cards may be used in the same games as those using a standard deck of cards. A shuffler randomizes the order and/or arrangement... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070102879 - Shuffler with shuffling completion indicator: A playing card shuffling device has a visual display in information communication with the playing card shuffling device. At least one processor is programmed to provide displayable information to the visual display indicative of an amount of time remaining or time expired in a procedure performed by the shuffling device.... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A.

20070102880 - Discernment game and method of play: A discernment game is provided, the game including a plurality of cards wherein each of the plurality of cards represent a gift. The game also includes a play surface for positioning a predetermined number of cards from the plurality of cards; a means for identifying each of the predetermined number... Agent: Laurence C. Bonar

20070102881 - Folding chess set: Chess set comprising a housing that closes and creates a space to store game pieces. Shelves are rotatably attached to the side of the board to move from a close position inside the housing to an open position adjacent to the playing board. Game pieces are adhered to the shelves... Agent: Kile Goekjian Reed & Mcmanus

20070102882 - Four card poker and associated games: A casino game utilizes at least one deck of playing cards, the game comprising: each player placing at least one wager to participate in the casino game; dealing a first number of cards to a dealer, the first number of cards being greater than the number of cards to be... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20070102884 - Fishing pole casting air golf game: An apparatus and method wherein differently configured targets and corresponding flags, preferably with numbers corresponding to the hole numbers of a conventional golf course, are arranged relative to a target area representative of a golf course like setting, either indoors or outside, and players use fishing poles with selected weighted... Agent: The Weintraub Group, P.L.C

20070102883 - Projectile retrieval system: A projectile retrieval system includes a screw drive for moving bullets and bullet fragments to move bullets from a bullet acceleration area to a remote location without the need for a person to handle the bullets. Preferably, the screw drive is configured so that there is no need to stop... Agent: Randall B. Bateman BatemanIPLaw Group

20070096392 - Shuffler device for game pieces: The present invention relates to a shuffler device including a tub for receiving one or more game pieces. The game pieces can be, for example, revealer devices, cards, and dice or Mah Jongg tiles. The bottom of the tub includes a plurality of raised portions. Alternatively, the bottom of the... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20070096393 - Multiple winners card game, game board and method for play: A wagering game, method of play, and game board used with cards and dice, is described. The easy to play game provides for one or more players to bet and win on one or more possible outcomes and may be suitable for children's play. The game provides players the option... Agent: Patricia M. Costanzo Pats Pending

20070096395 - Method and device for playing a game using a grid: The invention relates to a method for playing a card game using a grid in which game pieces are placed in a grid configuration. Hands are selected from the game pieces. A value is determined from the selected hand. For example, the grid configuration can include a triangular grid configuration,... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20070096394 - Method for playing a card game: A methodology 10 for playing a card game which combines the games of blackjack and poker, which includes a first poker round, and a second blackjack round, and in which a player selectively places a series of wagers selectively forms a five-card poker hand, and selectively forms a blackjack hand... Agent: Law Offices Of John Chupa & Associates, P.C.