Amusement devices: games inventions 05/08

20080122170 - Pneumatic game: A game that uses a source of compressed gas, such as compressed air, to provide gas to move a play object across a play surface. The compressed gas source is capable of providing compressed gas to jets in communication with the play surface for directing the gas to move the... Agent: Dimock Stratton LLP

20080122172 - Gift exchange game: Generally described, embodiments of the present invention provide novel methods for distributing gifts to participants of a game. In some embodiments, dice are used to determine which participants receive gifts. Some embodiments include provisions for allowing participants to retrieve gifts from other participants.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080122171 - Tumbler die and dice having changeable faces: A first and second die each have a plurality of flat side faces and a pair of flat end faces. Unique marking are provided on each face. A connector releasably interconnects the first and second dies. Relative rotation between the first and second dies increases the number of combinations of... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20080122173 - Form-fitting electronic game controller cover: A cover for a video game controller for precision gaming therewith, the cover being formed as a holster defined by opposing lobes for seating the respective lobes of the controller, with a central strap joined integrally on one side of the holster and fastenable around it by opposing hook and... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Royal W. Craig

20080122174 - Easy dauber bingo stamper: What I am bringing new to the Bingo industry is my invention I named “The Easy Dauber Bingo Stamper”, which is basically a plastic type square box, a top half and a bottom half, that consists of twenty-five plastic pens that run through the top that are filled with dauber... Agent: Jami J. Lewis

20080122175 - Ergonomic framework for chinese and western chess pieces: The ergonomic framework resembles a pyramid but with small rectangular peak (2), large rectangular base (8), two large isosceles trapezoid surface (5a) and (5b) on two side symmetrically face away from each other, and two small isosceles trapezoid surface (3a) and (3b) on two side symmetrically face away from each... Agent: Xiao-ming Deng Apt# 6l

20080122176 - Spot bet for craps game: Disclosed, is a new bet for the game of Craps referred to as “spot bets” wherein a player places a bet that one or both of the dice will show up with a certain number of spots on its upward face. The spot bet combines turn bets and hopper bets,... Agent: Robert Allen Dickerson

20080122178 - Pot poker game and method therefor: A method for playing a game of poker pits a dealer against two or more players. Players make an opening bet, the outcome of which may be determined, on a player by player basis, by comparing a hand value of each player hand to the dealer hand. Players may make... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080122177 - Royal baccarat: Disclosed is a modified baccarat game wherein one face up and one face down card are dealt for a dealer's hand, one or more player's hands, and a community hand. Players place bets on the dealer's hand, his player's hand, or on standoff (tie). After betting, the face down cards... Agent: Jennifer J. Riel

20080122179 - System and method for playing community hand poker games: A card game with at least one player involves placing first and second poker hand wagers and dealing starting hands to the player and a dealer. A first poker rank is determined from a resulting poker hand of the player derived from cards including a first community hand and the... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20080122180 - Video cribbage: The present invention provides a game for play by a player using a plurality of cards. The game includes a wager placed by the player and a player hand including at least four cards. A player score is calculated for the player hand according to a set of cribbage rules.... Agent: Kenneth Brunelle

20080116630 - Air hockey table: An air-hockey table having a playing surface, a plurality of air-conducting openings in the playing surface, a blower supplying air to the openings and a pair of goals, the improvement wherein the playing surface is non-planar and includes a smooth-curved surface having spaced-apart outer playing-surface regions and a central playing... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20080116631 - Coin roulette arcade game: An arcade game is disclosed having a rotating roulette type wheel with holes along a concentric circle of the upper face, and a coin track for carrying a coin from a player to the roulette type wheel at the position of the holes, which serve as targets. An optical sensor... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080116632 - Portable game body and method of using same: The present invention is directed to a small portable, game body that can be readily manipulated to obtain access to one or more of its sides and to contents of the pockets located on sides of the body. The contents of the pockets are typically flat cards having game or... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark A. Hamill, P.c.

20080116633 - Cubic assembly puzzle and support structure: A game or puzzle including a plurality of polyomino assembly pieces and a support base. The support base aids the user in visualizing the shape of the puzzle to be assembled and provides support to the assembly pieces during puzzle assembly.... Agent: Altimatia, L.l.c.

20080116634 - Cricket game: A cricket playing game has a board (2) having an array of squares defining a path of travel for a playing piece. Each playing piece represents a batsman. A throw of the die is equivalent to a ball being bowled and determines how far along the path the playing piece... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080116635 - Ship battle game: A ship battle game includes an environment. Each playing piece is non-descript, so that opposing players are unable to visually identify the type of ship the playing piece represents. A non-descript identifier is provided for each playing piece. Game information is provided on different types of ships and the fighting... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080116636 - Casino chess game: A chess game set is disclosed which contains a chess board, said chess board comprising a harlequin pattern of eight by eight alternately colored square spaces with four additional rows of eight alternately colored square spaces adjacent each side of the main playing area. Additionally, the set comprises from two... Agent: Johnathan E. Grant

20080116637 - Rhombus twelve manipulation game: This is a game puzzle. In this game rhombuses are placed together to form a coded hexagon. The four hexagonals can be placed in a shape to give a view of six hexagonals It takes twelve individual pieces, called rhombus to form this task.... Agent: Calvin L. Seals

20080116638 - Board game: A game board comprising: an upper surface member, preferably composed of a transparent material; a peripheral edge connected to the upper surface member; and at least one aperture in the peripheral edge for receiving a game piece, the game piece preferably an elongate tile provided with indicia relevant to game... Agent: Suzannah K. Sundby Smith, Gambrell & Russel, LLP

20080116640 - Method of playing a modified blackjack game: A method of playing a modified blackjack game with a dealer and at least one player includes providing a stack of playing cards having a plurality of decks, the stack including at least one wild card, taking side bets regarding the wild card before dealing any cards, dealing a hand... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080116639 - Method of playing game variation over multiple rounds with player decision rule: A variation on roulette, craps, sic bo, the big wheel or any other casino game of no-skill using randomization without replacement and methods of playing variations on such games as described herein. The variation involves normal play of the underlying game. Additional play is made possible due to the method... Agent: Shenli Ko

20080116641 - Modified blackjack game: A method of playing a modified blackjack game includes designating at least one card within the standard deck as a wild card. In playing the game to determine a winner, a value is selected for the wild card to achieve a total of twenty-one if the player receives the wild... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080116642 - Multi-handed poker game: A card game that is played using a deck of cards comprised of fifty-two poker cards plus two Joker cards for a total of fifty-four cards, where one or more players simultaneously place a wager on, and then move the wagers among, several hands as cards are being dealt to... Agent: Randall Leroy Glover

20080116643 - Football playing piece: A game piece includes a substantially triangularly-shaped housing, an impact detection apparatus which generates a signal in response to an impacting blow to the housing, and a signaling apparatus which produces an audio or visual signal in response to the signal produced by the impact detection apparatus. A kit includes... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080116644 - Toss game: A toss game. The game has two casings which sit one within the other. Each casing has a playing surface. The playing surfaces of each casing have groups of toss targets. Correlated to each of the groups of toss targets are groups of scoring indicia. Each target surface is maintainable... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, Pllc

20080111300 - Casino card shoes, systems, and methods for a no peek feature: Card shoes, systems and methods for determining a dealer's hand status are disclosed. An image of a last dispensed card captured by an image sensor in a card shoe is analyzed. A value of the card is determined by evaluating the image. A dealer's hand status is indicated on a... Agent: Traskbritt, P.c. /shuffle Master

20080111302 - Global property trading board game: A global property trading board game having a game board with a continuous travel path divided into stations being associated with respective countries and having markings, including economic values representative of the respective countries' gross domestic product. Movement of a game-piece along the travel path is determined by a chance-controlled... Agent: Natter & Natter

20080111303 - Competitive strategy gaming apparatus: A strategy game to be played in competition by multiple players. The game includes a map, partitioned into a grid of hexagonal cells, and accompanying game elements to be placed and interacted with on the grid. The game includes means of play designed to maximise the player's utilisation of strategic... Agent: Tyson Guttwein

20080111304 - Multimedia video and audio playing device usable with various playing appliances: A multimedia video and audio playing device includes a main part, a wireless receiver, and a connecting member; the main part has a built-in wireless transmission module, and a holding room thereon, in which the connecting member is received in a separable manner; the connecting member has a holding space... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080111305 - Games with component elements having a luminescent surfaces enabling play in the dark: At least part of the cooperating parts of a game is made luminescent to glow in the dark or under appropriate lighting conditions. The luminescence may be due to self illuminating internal stored energy (phosphorescent) of the part or alternatively coated with material that is stimulated light of a wavelength... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20080111306 - Draw for battle: DRAW FOR BATTLE is a strategic dueling card game, combining an art instructional component as part of interactive card game play. Players must first draw the characters chosen from the PRIMARY DECK during game play before placing them onto the battlefield for combat through assigned numerical STRENGTH levels and SMARTS... Agent: Anthony C. Caputo

20080111309 - Gaming system, gaming device and method for providing draw poker game: A gaming device having a primary Three Card Poker game is provided. The Three Card Poker game includes three cards dealt to the player and the dealer, where all cards are dealt face-up. First, the player has an option to replace one card from the players hand. Then, the dealer... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP

20080111307 - Mahjong roulette: Mahjong wagering games are disclosed in which a player or players place a wager on which mahjong tile will be selected, the mahjong tile being selected with a mahjong roulette style wheel or by being revealed after selection from a boneyard. The wagers are based on a bet type provided... Agent: The Secretary, Leading Edge Games Ltd

20080111308 - Three-card poker game with progressive side bet: h

20080111310 - Game table television and projector system, and method for same: A game table television and method that allows for more frequent or continuous use of the game table by enabling additional and/or simultaneous use as a television, which may be conveniently enjoyed and/or controlled by the participants and/or spectators of the table game.... Agent: Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, L.l.c.

20080111311 - Induction frame for a dartboard: An induction frame for a dartboard is positioned on the front surface of the dartboard according to predetermined shape and number so as to define a plurality of scoring areas thereon. The induction frame is inductive and has conductive ends that are used to penetrate the dartboard. On the front... Agent: Dr. Banger Shia

20080111312 - Disc throwing game: A target comprises a pair of hinged panels with circular openings and parallel slots. The target is supported by a set of two like planar supports hinged to an edge of each panel at opposite target edges. The slots have a length of about the same dimension as the circular... Agent: Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein

20080106034 - Instant-win lottery ticket allowing keyless validation and method for validating same: A game ticket is disclosed. The game ticket includes a substrate, a game play area located on the substrate, and a first machine-readable code located on the substrate. The machine-readable code includes a first piece of authentication information. A second machine-readable code is located on the substrate. The second machine-readable... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080106035 - Wagering casino game: A casino game comprising one or more sets of game pieces and a layout which designates various wagering areas. The object of the game being to make a good wager based on a randomized event related to the set of game pieces. The preferred game apparatus includes a single set... Agent: Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North, LLC

20080106036 - Big box office \"the movie business game\": A board game for 2 to 8 players about the movie business industry, consisting of a square playing board divided into 52 playing spaces, 12 on each side, plus 4 corner “Start Here” squares. Within the interior of the playing board are four “Theater” archways, each showing two “Film Genres.”... Agent: Andrew James Pomeroy

20080106037 - Casino-type wagering game based on card color: A source of symbols with two primary distinguishable characteristics is provided in a wagering environment. A player has wagering opportunities on a sequence of events, wagering on either of the primary distinguishable characteristics for each event in the sequence of events. Playing cards may be used as the source of... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A.

20080106038 - Educational card system and method for using same: An educational card system comprises a set of game cards, each game card having a card number, an associated mathematical operation that is to be conducted using the card number and, at least one playing icon. The set of game cards has a plurality of playing icons, each of the... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080106039 - Texas hold 'em high/lo 8 or better and razz low ball: The new game of Texas Hold 'Em is called Texas Hold 'Em Hi/Lo 8 or Better and Texas Hold 'Em Razz or Low Ball.... Agent: Charles F. Meroni, Jr. Meroni & Meroni, P.C.

20080099987 - Game and method having a plurality of indicia sets: Disclosed are a game and method for a game including multiple supplemental games. Each supplemental game has a set of indicia unique from the indicia sets of the other supplemental games.... Agent: Bally Gaming Inc.

20080099988 - Method of controlling a dice game and gaming machine: A gaming machine for a dice game includes a game section, a player terminal, and a controller. The player terminal has a display through which a player can places a bet on predicted dots to appear on tops of a plurality of dice of different types that come to rest... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080099989 - Method and device for playing a game in which values of game pieces are gradually revealed: The present invention relates to a method and device for playing a game in which values of a game piece are gradually revealed. A cover is magnetically attached to a game piece. The cover can be slid or moved to gradually reveal values on the game piece.... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20080099990 - Method and apparatus for playing a game on a playing surface: A method for tracking multiple durations in a game without the need for any accounting is provided. The invention readily scales from tracking just a few durations to tracking many durations without slowing the game down. Furthermore, the method provides an opportunity for all players to verify the results, making... Agent: Michael Wittig

20080099992 - Board games: A board game comprising a playing board having a surface marked with an array of vertical and horizontal rows of abutting squares, each square having a number marked within it and a pack of cards having on one side a plurality of questions and on the other side the answers... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080099991 - Method of providing a running side bet wager on craps: A side best is added to the play of a game of Craps. A player places a side bet wager on an occurrence of at least two consecutive Pass events, and establishing a third Point without rolling a seven. After the third Point is made, a payout is awarded. All... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20080099993 - System and method for playing a progressive jackpot game, and player input device: A system and method for progressive jackpot gaming during a casino game. One or more play tables may be present, each play table comprising a dealer console and a plurality of player input devices. Each of the player input devices is arranged to receive a respective player input. The dealer... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080099994 - Soft shell practice golf ball: A golf ball designed for practicing indoors. The golf ball comprises a soft-shelled flexible hollow spherical cage, a stitched hollow spherical cover enclosing the hollow spherical cage and granules enclosed in the hollow spherical cage. The spherical cage comprises a plurality of holes on its surface. The spherical cover is... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20080099996 - No commission pai gow poker: A method of playing a Pai Gow Poker game includes the steps of (a) dealing cards to a player and to a dealer; (b) the player and dealer dividing their cards into first and second player hands and first and second dealer hands, respectively; and (c) resolving the game based... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080099995 - Praise and draw, a religious card game: A religious game where biblical phrases inscribed on cards to be drawn from a deck are guessed by teams based on visible drawings produced by the player drawing the card.... Agent: Doretha E. Maxwell

20080099997 - Archery target and related method of manufacture: An archery target including a rigid frame including a target side, a sheet secured to the frame on a target side to create an interior compartment bounded by the sheet and the frame, a compressed density material in the compartment and a backing. The sheet can be a filtration screen... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP