Amusement devices: games inventions 04/09

20090108524 - Recreational coin device and method of use: A recreational coin and methods of using the coin are provided. The coin includes a heads side depicting a head-related sexual act and a tails side depicting a posterior-related sexual act. Preferred embodiments also include sexually suggestive phrases on the two sides similar to phrases found on US currency coins,... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090108525 - Game: A game is provided. Such game includes a generally flat playing board manufactured from a first predetermined material and having a first predetermined shape and a first predetermined size. Such playing board has predetermined indicia disposed thereon at a plurality of predetermined locations. A pointing device is included for traveling... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20090108526 - Random pay table multipliers: The pay table is modified by using a randomly assigned multiplier associated with each pay category which change for each play of the casino game. The casino game, such as poker, keno or slot machines, has a pay table having at least two pay categories. For each pay category, a... Agent: John Edward Roethel

20090108527 - Methods in poker related card games: The present invention provides a method within a poker card game, for determining a set of hole cards for at least one player, the method comprising the steps a dealer dealing three sets of cards, each set comprising at least two cards, where at least one set of cards is... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090108528 - Domi-deck: DOMI-DECK IS A DECK OF PLASTIC CARDS THAT HAS THE LOOKS AND EMBLEMS OF THE ORIGINAL DOMINOS AND IS PLAYED IN THE SAME CONCEPT AS THE GAME.... Agent: Gil O Zuloaga

20090108529 - Vertical dominoes: An apparatus and method for vertically playing a matching figures game comprising a carrying box and cards having a front side and a back side, wherein the matching figures are displayed at the front side and the back side of the card may be used to display advertising matter. The... Agent: Eugenio J. Torres

20090108530 - Playing cards with distinctive suits: A playing card deck with fifty-two cards divided equally into four suits, being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs. The thirteen cards of each suit are sequentially numbered face cards, two through ten, a jack, a queen, a king and, an ace with the following distinctive color arrangement: a first suit,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20090108531 - Playing cards with distinctive suits: A playing card deck with fifty-two cards divided equally into four suits, being hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs. The thirteen cards of each suit are sequentially numbered face cards, two through ten, a jack, a queen, a king and an ace with the following distinctive color arrangement: a first suit,... Agent: Juan J. Lizarraga

20090108532 - Changeable gaming table: The present invention relates to a changeable gaming table system including one or more projectors for projecting an image of a game onto the gaming table. The gaming table can be formed of felt. The image can include a playing portion and a betting portion. Game pieces can be received... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20090102119 - Lucky numbers roulette: A gaming apparatus includes a roulette ball; a roulette wheel a basic conventional roulette betting area; and an additional betting area comprised of ten positions, each designating numbers ending in 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9. In alternate embodiments, the additional betting area includes a... Agent: Werner Alecsander Kling

20090102120 - Rfid system capable of detecting rfid tag orientation, an rfid tag thereof, and a puzzle system using the rfid system: In a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system capable of detecting RFID tag orientation, a RFID tag thereof comprises a plurality of antennas. When a particular one of the antennas receives an RF signal from a reader of the RFID system, the RFID tag is able to send out an identification data... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090102121 - Board and board game with timing features: A board game with a timing feature is disclosed. The board game includes a board with several bonus spaces or premium spaces that can change in value and/or availability as a game progresses. The board also includes indicator associated with the bonus or premium spaces that indicate whether the bonus... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090102122 - Military family board game: The invention relates to a board game typically including counters, playing pieces, pawns or the like. The playing pieces are placed of the board and moved across the board in accordance with the play of the game wherein the game board is comprised of at least two sections, one having... Agent: Lisa Rene Stillion

20090102123 - Board game and method of playing: A method of playing a board game that assists a child to eat a healthy, balanced meal includes the steps of: (a) providing a set of food holders that hold a plurality of food items in separate locations; (b) identifying the individual food holders with different visual indicia; (c) providing... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090102124 - Board game system and associated method: The present disclosure relates to a system for use with a board game including a board, mock currency, and one or more tokens. The system includes a plurality of liability cards allowing players of the board game to assume an amount of liability less than or equal to a liability... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20090102125 - Game of chance ensuring a single winner: A game of chance played between a plurality of players, which ensures there can be only one winner. Each player is associated with a set of indicators, and a winner is determined if a set of indicators associated with a player matches a unique set of indicators randomly selected from... Agent: Steven W. Smith

20090102126 - Golf game and method of playing: The disclosure relates to a golf game and method of playing. More particularly, a method of gameplay which follows the career of a selected golf professional, as each game participant attempts to attain victories in the selected golf professional's career by selecting game pieces from a stack at random. A... Agent: Jafari Law Group, P.C.

20090102127 - Low/max card game method and apparatus: A card game method and apparatus is played with a standard deck of cards and a game table having a dealer area and a plurality of player areas. The dealer deals sets of cards to each of a plurality of players and to the dealer itself. An equal number of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20090102128 - Method for playing modified blackjack: A method of playing modified blackjack wherein, in one embodiment, a plurality of decks of cards is provided wherein each playing card has a specific numeric value. An ante or initial wager is placed by at least one player. Next, the dealer preferably deals an initial two card hand in... Agent: Law Offices Of Raymond A. Nuzzo, LLC

20090102129 - Shooting target system for automatic determination of the point of impact: A shooting target system including a target including a material in which shock waves arise and propagate when hit by a projectile. A first shock sensor is arranged to detect the shock waves. At least a second shock sensor is arranged at a distance from the first shock sensor. A... Agent: Venable LLP

20090102130 - Portable firing berm: A portable firing berm adapted to capture bullet fragments from rounds fired at the berm. The portable firing berm has a funnel portion and a dry tank portion connected to the funnel portion. The funnel portion is configured to funnel and deflect rounds into the dry tank portion. The dry... Agent: Perman & Green

20090096159 - Card game playing device and method of playing a game: A game playing device having a housing with a card holding member, the card holding member being configured to receive a plurality of cards; a plurality of switches located on a surface of the housing each of the plurality of switches being capable of being illuminated; and a controller for... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090096160 - Logic puzzle: A logic puzzle having a shaped game space with edges defining an overall shape, within which are included a plurality of shaped subsets, each having an equal multiplicity of subdivided segments or cells that collectively provide for a preliminary solution set and a final solution set, with the final solution... Agent: John F. Lyons

20090096161 - Lionsphere, a three-dimenstional puzzle: A puzzle formed by splitting of a 3-D body by three pairs of symmetrical conical surfaces. The body has a hollow sphere inside with three main axes coincided with the axes of each pair. The elements are a result of splitting by the conical surfaces and comprise outer and inner... Agent: Shlomo Caspi

20090096162 - Scent-based board game: The present invention includes a scent-based board game to challenge the olfactory sense of the player, and a method of play thereof, further including a game board having a start space, an end space and a set of spaces positioned between the start and end space; a scented card having... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090096163 - Board game: A method of playing a chess-like board game with four players. The method includes the providing of a game board having a primary grid of one-hundred forty-four playing spaces arranged as a square surrounded by four secondary grids each having sixteen playing spaces and providing a set of sixteen chess... Agent: Stephen R. Greiner, Esquire Greiner Law Offices, P.C.

20090096164 - Jackpot game: A jackpot game having game cards, markers, call numbers, checking chart and dispenser. Jackpot game cards have a grid of seven rows of seven squares each or 49 squares in all and a free play square in the middle of the grid. The letters J-A-C-K-P-O-T appear above this grid with... Agent: Mark R. Wilcox

20090096165 - Real-time interactive wagering on event outcomes: Systems and methods for real-time interactive wagering on event outcomes are presented. Clients are first qualified and given wagering limits before being allowed to interactively wager on event outcomes. Event outcomes may be based on, for example, financial markets and indices, sporting and entertainment events, casino games, casino performances, and... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090096167 - Method of randomly selecting a playing card for a casino game: A method and apparatus for achieving an accurate randomly selected playing card, quickly, economically and in a secure fashion to be used in determining the winners and losers of Casino games, both existing and those to be designed in the future. It incorporates a double random selection process to add... Agent: John Martin Van Rhyn

20090096166 - Side bet blackjack game: A blackjack side game includes placing a main bet and a side bet. First and second card positions to be utilized for playing the side bet game are designated before the game begins. A dealer deals cards to the table including: a dealer hand with one up card and one... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20090096168 - 60 playing card poker game and method therefor: A poker game utilizes a 60 card deck, in which the deck consists solely of four sets of 15 cards each. Each set of 15 cards consists of five each of consecutive first value, second value and third value cards. The first set is in the suit of Spades, the... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20090096169 - Card game combining online and deck games: A card game for use by a plurality of players, the card game comprising a deck of playing cards and an online version of the same game for complimentary use. A plurality of numbered cards, each numbered card including an image on its face, a symbol and at least one... Agent: Mark Manley

20090096170 - Table-top football kicking game: A table-top football kicking game includes a substantially planar and rectangular playing surface having at least two lines extending laterally, and at least one set of goal post uprights attached substantially perpendicular to and proximal ends of the rectangular playing surface. Also included are a toy oblong football of proportional... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20090096171 - Self-deploying game device: A self-deploying game device, which is intended to receive an object. It includes a bowed structure with a basic loop that includes a front part in a horizontal plane and a rear part, and a goal loop, with a rear part in a horizontal plane, and a front part in... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090096172 - Composite archery target: A composite archery target 10 includes a first member 12 fabricated from a tear resistant material, a second member 14 fabricated from a healing material, the second member 14 is disposed about the first member 12, and a glue 16 for securing the second member 14 to the first member... Agent: Donald G. Flaynik, Jr. Cherskov & Flaynik

20090096173 - 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... Agent: BatemanIPLaw Group

20090091078 - Intelligent baccarat shoe: A playing card delivery shoe is used in the play of the casino table card game of baccarat. The shoe may comprise a) an area for receiving a first set of playing cards useful in the play of the casino table card game of baccarat; b) first card mover that... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20090091079 - Three-dimensional logic puzzle: A three-dimensional logic puzzle having a multiplicity of face sides wherein a final solution set is provided by forming a preliminary solution set on each of the face sides and across the face sides in a predetermined pattern.... Agent: Triangle Patents, P.l.l.c.

20090091080 - Dividing method for three-dimensional logical puzzles: A dividing method used to easily divide any given solid into perfectly interfitting parts by using at least one guiding polyhedron to establish an axis system serving as guiding paths for associated geometrical figure contours used to slice said given solid. This axis system is coincident with all or a... Agent: Maxime Paquette

20090091084 - Card game: A card game method pits a dealer against one or more players. The highest value hand is nineteen. The value of the player and dealer hands is the sum of the value of the cards in the respective hand and if the value is 20 or more, the value is... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20090091083 - Double button poker: A poker game utilizing two buttons which include a Dealer Button that is utilized as in conventional Texas Hold'Em rules, and a winner's button which is given to the winner of a hand and permits the winner to bet last in all rounds of betting in a subsequent hand until... Agent: Wolff & Samson, P.C.

20090091082 - Method and apparatus for playing a wagering game: Methods of playing a card game involving a dealer and at least one player are provided as well as apparatus for simulated card games. The methods include accepting an initial wager from each player and then dealing each player and the dealer two cards from at least one standard deck... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090091081 - Wagering method and apparatus based on a numerical total: A wagering game that deals a hand to a player and a dealer. A numerical total of the player's hand is compared to a numerical total of the dealer's hand in order to determine which hand, the player's or the dealer's, is higher (and hence the winner). Before reaching the... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20090091085 - Card game: A card game method pits a dealer against one or more players. The highest value hand is nineteen. A player who has placed a wager to win seeks to obtain a hand having a value greater than that of the dealer hand, which will generally mean a hand of nineteen... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20090091086 - Game table with a level indicating device: Certain game tables requiring a level playing surface for an unbiased playing experience. However, due to physical motion and natural settling most game tables pitch and roll change over time, thereby developing a table bias. Most of the time a player would not know if and when a table bias... Agent: David Fitzgibbon

20090091087 - Quiz-nested quiz game and system therefore: One detailed embodiment of a quiz-nested quiz game and system therefore, played by one or by one or more players. Each quiz comprises one information fragment for its answer and one for each clue. A unique identifier is assigned to the information fragments. The uniquely identified information fragments are associated... Agent: Robert Andrew Wasmund

20090085285 - Head-to-head tilting surface game: A head-to-head tilting surface game, comprising a playing surface tiltable along two orthogonal axes and configured to support moving playing pieces thereon and having a goal area. Each of a first pair of controls is disposed adjacent opposite peripheral edges of the playing surface along a first of the two... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20090085286 - Mechanical ball projection game devices: Mechanical ball projection game devices, including game devices having mechanically-actuated ball loader assemblies, and game devices to release a tangible prize upon game balls reaching or entering a prize location to release a tangible prize upon game balls reaching or entering a prize location. Game devices disclosed herein include prize... Agent: Garrett Ip, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090085287 - Dynamically altering pinball playfield elements: The present invention teaches systems and methods to dynamically alter pinball playfield elements. The key observation is that these systems and methods are organic to conventional pinball play, and thus acceptable to a typical pinball player. The present invention has two broad components under control of a game's processor. One,... Agent: Dan Bress

20090085288 - Interactive game including multiple single-use game boards: An interactive game (10) for use by a first player and a second player includes a first game board assembly (12A) and a separate second game board assembly (12B). The first game board assembly (12A) includes a first game board (20) having a first variable board component (40) that is... Agent: Roeder & Broder LLP

20090085289 - Luck of the irish™ board game and method of play: A themed-knowledge game and associated method of play, comprising: a plurality of game cards, each game card containing N questions thereon in a one-to-one correspondence with N predetermined categories of knowledge, and each of the N questions having an answer therefor; a game board comprising a plurality of game spaces... Agent: Law Office Of Jay R. Yablon

20090085290 - Good vs. bad board game: A board game played by at least two players for provoking discussion amongst the players based on questions provided by the board game. There is a game board having spaces thereon forming a path on the game board including a start and a finish space. Predetermined spaces along the path... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20090085291 - Novel game set: A portable game set comprising a game board constructed out of corrugated paper board having indicia thereon representing a game board and having slits on each position for receiving a game piece. The game pieces are rectangular and made of a transparent material so that the indicia indicating the game... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20090085292 - 80 playing card deck poker game and method therefor: A poker game utilizes an 80 card deck, in which the deck consists solely of 10 sets of eight cards each. Each set of eight cards consists of a first value card in the suit of spades, a second value card in the suit of hearts, a first value card... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20090085295 - Card game: The game is played with up to six or 7 players but the amount can be changed based on the number of decks used. The cards are dealt to the players face up. A player wins when the dealt card matches or suits the previous card the player received. Bets... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C.

20090085296 - Method for playing blackjack with a three card poker wager (\"21+3\"): A card game combines the play of Blackjack (“21”) with a 3-card Poker wager or side bet (“21+3”). At least two cards are dealt to a player. A three-card hand is formed using the at least two cards, and the three-card hand is resolved based on a Poker rank of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090085293 - Modified poker game with jokers: A method of playing a wagering card game begins with a wager from each player, and is played in a predetermined maximum number of rounds, each round consisting of the deal of at least two cards to each player and the dealer. At the end of the first round, the... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center, Suite 205

20090085294 - Religiously themed educational game: An apparatus for a religiously themed educational game is presented. The apparatus includes a plurality of game cards each of the game cards including indicia indicating a religious term and a list of off-limit terms. The game cards are used during playing the game where an objective of the game... Agent: Jim Montgomery

20090085297 - Tempt destiny interactive sports game method: The Tempt Destiny interactive sports game method pertains to a method of playing an interactive sports game while observing or listening to a live or recorded broadcast sporting event. This invention embodies playing cards that describe the occurrences of the method of play and rules of the sporting event and... Agent: Manuel Morales

20090085298 - Pub washers aka combat washers: Description: A table top pitching or tossing game which may be played indoors or outdoors. A single game board consisting of a raised board covered in carpet which has three holes in vertical alignment. These holes are lined with plastic or PVC pipe which forms pockets for scoring. Each hole... Agent: Michael F. Terich