Amusement devices: games inventions 07/09

20090189345 - Gaming machine with reels: Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to gaming machines having mechanical reels. The machine is adapted so that the reels to some extent protrude from the front face of the machine to enhance the user's awareness that the reels are genuine and, optionally, the reels may have side walls... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090189346 - Swivel mounted card handing device: Playing card handling devices, such as shufflers, dealing shoes, discard racks and verification systems are rotatably secured to a gaming table to allow for functional and ergonomic adjustment of the card handling device, without removal from the gaming table. One end of the device, preferably a front end of the... Agent: Mark A&#x3e Litman And Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20090189347 - Numbers game and/or code: The object of the game of this invention is to place a series of numbers in a correct sequence. This is done on a grid by combining the number of a starting position with one of the series and creating a route leg to an intermediate position. A second number... Agent: G. Turner Moller, Jr.

20090189348 - Game apparatus and method: A design game of creative investigation and fun. The invention includes corresponding game parts and means of using via manner of play to create designs using game pieces. Game parts include a plurality of game pieces, at least one indicator, and at least one container. Plurality of game pieces includes... Agent: Karen A. Kucharski

20090189349 - Conditional application of hit card: Methods, devices, systems and computer readable media are described, comprising determining an intermediate player hand in a card game; offering to the player an option to receive a conditional hit card in exchange for resolving the hand according to a second pay table; if the player accepts the offer, dealing... Agent: Jerome A. Deluca

20090189350 - Oriental chain-ring game card and method of playing the same: The present invention relates to a five-element game card and a method of playing an oriental chain-ring game card. The five-element game card comprises ten cards per suit of wood, fire, earth, metal and water as a deck of base cards, wherein each of the base cards has five-element display... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090189351 - Gaming system having multiple player simultaneous display/input device: A game table having a multiplayer interactive display/input device which enables multiple players to simultaneously play primary or base wagering games and/or secondary or bonus games using the display/input device. The display/input device enables multiple players to simultaneously interact with the game table and the various games using the same... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090189352 - Roping apparatus: A roping practice apparatus includes a base and at least one wheel rotatably mounted to the base about a horizontal wheel axis oriented transverse to the base and below the top surface of the base, the wheel defiling at least one slot extending from a rim of the wheel toward... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20090184467 - Board game with laterally movable pieces: A puzzle board game for completing puzzle pictures or patterns of animals, words, phrases, or geometric designs includes a case, a cover for the case, a card holder on the inside of the cover for holding additional game cards with various puzzle patterns imprinted thereon, intersecting tracks for supporting the... Agent: The Inventors Network, Inc.

20090184468 - Electrical chess module: An electrical chess module is disclosed. A LED and a first coil are configured at every chessman, and the LED and the first coil are parallel connection. A electric power and a second coil are configured at the chessboard, wherein the second coil makes the electromagnetic induction due to a... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090184469 - Polygon identification board game: A board game includes a board having an upper surface with a peripheral region and a central region. The peripheral region has positions for placement of player pieces thereupon, each peripheral region having located thereon an image of one of a plurality of polygonal shapes. The central region has central... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090184470 - Game and a layout for a game including a wheel and dice: The disclosure relates to a game comprising the following steps placing a wager, spinning a wheel, rolling a set of dice and betting on a particular color during a spin of a wheel or a roll of dice. The game can be played on a gaming surface comprising at least... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090184472 - Card game: A card game method of play and apparatus, comprising a deck of cards containing numerical values and suits, and a plurality of wild cards (FIGS. 1A through 1E). In playing the game, players take turns drawing cards from the draw pile (20) and playing cards to the shared play pile... Agent: Kristoffer Cox

20090184473 - Card game with auxiliary game: The present invention provides a method of playing a card game which includes a main sub-game and an auxiliary sub-game, the method comprising the steps of: providing to the player an option of playing the auxiliary sub-game according to pre-determined auxiliary sub-game rules, said playing including placing a bet on... Agent: Joel D. Skinner, Jr. Skinner And Associates

20090184471 - Games of three card black jack and baccarat: Methods of playing card games similar to Blackjack and Baccarat are described. The methods include dealing initial hands of two cards. The hands must draw a third card if the first two cards have a value of 16 or less, and must stand if the first two cards have a... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090184474 - Electronic target: An electronic target has a base, a sensing assembly and a collector. The base has a body and a stand. The base is an electrical target module and has an outer edge and a front surface. The stand is mounted on the outer edge of the body and hold the... Agent: Frenkel & Associates, P.C. Suite 330

20090179377 - Craps game improvement: A proposition bet for Craps referred to as a FIRE BET™. The method includes predetermining a schedule of a pay-out table, players placing FIRE BET wagers at respective player betting areas prior to a shooter's initial come out; accumulating points responsive to outcomes of the shooter's dice throws, wherein points... Agent: Peter D Keefe Keefe And Associates

20090179380 - Blackjack game with bingo aspect: A variation of casino blackjack that includes a bingo type side game. A scoreboard is prominently displayed to the players which comprise indicator lights representing conditions of either the dealer's hand or a player's hand. When each condition is satisfied, the respective indicator light on the scoreboard is lit. When... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20090179378 - Card game with counting: Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090179379 - Magic, swords, and suns interactive card game: Allotted resource card game system includes a plurality of game components, at least some of which have a power value and/or ability. Each game component is in a state such as an “in play” state or an “out of play” state. Components of opponents are diminished by utilizing cards from... Agent: Allan Chan

20090179381 - Kit for facilitating conversations: A card game kit for use as a planning tool to help people have conversations about difficult decisions is disclosed. The kit includes a deck of cards and instructions for their use. The cards identify potential outcomes and the instructions teach how to prioritize these outcomes such that the person... Agent: Julie Groves

20090179382 - Omnidirectional target system: An omnidirectional target system includes a target movable between a retracted position and an extended position and an actuation mechanism for moving the target to the extended position, the target and the actuation mechanism being releaseable so that the target can be moved back into the retracted position despite movement... Agent: BatemanIPLaw Group

20090174141 - Roulette wheel: A roulette wheel (1) has a ball detector (9a, 9b, 9c) to detect the ball as the ball travels round the rim (3) of the roulette wheel and a drop determiner (21) to determine, for each of a number of games of roulette, the region of the rim from which... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , PLLC

20090174142 - Methods and apparatus for educational spelling games: Methods and apparatus for educational spelling games wherein players are required to spell words of various levels of spelling difficulty and a player's degree of advancement depends on the difficulty level of the word. One version is a game board with a plurality of playing pieces, a plurality of spelling... Agent: Daniel P. Burke, Esq.

20090174143 - Learning system and method and pattern matching design game implementing same: A set of different metal and rope components can be used by groups or individuals to match a pre-determined pattern. A game operator can provide the individual or team with individual assembly components and a pre-determined pattern diagram. The team is then required to configure the different available components so... Agent: Williams Mullen

20090174144 - Gameboard: A gameboard including a top surface configured to accommodate the playing of a game thereon and a bottom surface configured to be disposed on a gameboard support surface and to include means for smooth movement thereon.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090174145 - Game, method of manufacture, 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: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090174146 - Methods and apparatus for playing a coin flipping game: Methods and apparatus for playing games of skill and/or chance are provided.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20090174147 - Self-resetting paddle target: A self-resetting paddle target is comprised of at least one paddle mounted to a carrier body. The carrier body is rotatably mounted to a support rod such that the carrier body may freely rotate about the support rod. The carrier body is formed as a cam follower configured to engage... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC Intellectual Property Department

20090166968 - Energy cured coating: An energy cured coating is described that may be used in numerous applications. In one embodiment, for instance, the coating can be used as a seal coat layer in a gaming card. In particular, the coating can be used to protect a hidden printed layer that is covered by a... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090166969 - Interactive bottle game: An entertaining and romantic game comprises actions and adventures of different categories that are placed in a bottle and spun. Some actions or adventures are pre-printed whereas others are created by the players, thereby personalizing the game.... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20090166970 - Card shuffler and dealer: THE CARD SHUFFLER AND DEALER is a mechanical devise which shuffles and deals playing cards to two to four players. By rotating the handle of the CARD SHUFFLER AND DEALER counter clockwise, the internal mechanism is able to shuffle and deal out the proper number of cards to each player.... Agent: Melvin S. Rosh

20090166971 - Puzzle game: A puzzle game includes a Playing Grid and a plurality of Playing Pieces. The Playing Grid contains an array of Nodes, and a subset of said Nodes are designated as Anchors. Also included in the Playing Grid are a network of Branches interconnecting said nodes. A Playing Piece is a... Agent: Thomas, Raring, & Teague, P.C.

20090166972 - Scramble 500: A board game comprised of arranging numerical tiles on a playing surface for the entertainment of a plurality of players. The game consists of a playing surface consisting of 260 square rectangles and a plurality of tile game pieces marked with a numerical and/or alphabetic inscription. The tiles are arranged... Agent: Douglas Scott Morey

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20090166974 - Method of dealing hands of cards in games having a dealer and multiple players: The conventional manner of play of Twenty-One is modified by having the two initial dealer cards comprising the dealer's initial hand dealt to the dealer position before any cards are dealt to any of the player positions. After the two initial dealer cards are dealt, a fifty card depleted deck... Agent: John Edward Roethel