Amusement devices: games inventions 09/09

20090236801 - Business game apparatus: A business game apparatus based on Islamic values comprising a playing board (100), card sets, transaction records, information cards, game money, dice and tokens. The playing board (100) comprises circuits (102, 104, 106) and card placement regions (108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118). Each circuit comprises a series of divisions... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090236802 - Word game using stylized letters that share at least one common side: A word game in which a participant attempts to decipher a word formed from a plurality of stylized alphabet letters that share a common side. The alphabet letters are majuscule English language alphabet letters in a block style font formed of line segments on a square grid. A portion of... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A.

20090236803 - Device for a guess-and-mind game: Device for a guess-and-mind game, comprising a holder (10) and a carrier (1) to be placed on or in the holder which carrier has been provided with a series of different images. The holder extends over the carrier and at that side has been provided with a series of windows... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090236804 - Playing cards with electronic circuitry: A playing card for a game is constructed in layers and is electrically conductive through internal electronic circuitry. The electronic circuitry is electrically energized to generate an electrical signal that identifies suit and face value of the playing card. The electronic circuitry generates an electrical signal and sends it to... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20090230620 - game apparatus: An apparatus for playing a game comprising a playing surface 4.2) having a first area (14) and a second area (17), a projectile (24), at least two propulsion devices (8). First and second sets of playing pieces {12,16) are provided, each playing piece having a lower peg portion, and a... Agent: Gable & Gotwals

20090230621 - Ball-shaped puzzle: The invention relates to a ball-shaped puzzle comprising a spherical support element (1; 31) and a plurality of movable puzzle elements (16; 33) which all have substantially the same size and shape, the movable puzzle elements (16; 33) being slidably engaged in a trajectory (2; 32) on the outside of... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090230622 - Lamp chess module: A chess piece is embedded with a light unit; a central lead and peripheral lead are made on its bottom. A chess board comprises a top electrode plate and a bottom electrode place. The top electrode plate has a plurality holes where the central leads electrically couples to a bottom... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090230623 - Judo games: A board game of Judo competition and strategy for two players comprising a field of play in the form of a rectangular grid of individually identified squares, preferably eleven squares along its length and preferably eight squares across its width, preferably divided into three zones. Gameplay is carried out by... Agent: Jacob Van Der Boom

20090230624 - Poker craps and maxi poker: b

20090230625 - Inflatable board game: The present invention is directed to an inflatable game board including a game board, a storage drawer, an inflatable device, and game pieces to allow a person to play board games while immersed in water. The inflatable game board can be used in rough water due to the magnet attached... Agent: Nw-ip-law

20090230626 - Card game: A card game played with two pinocle decks. All of the cards are dealt face up and a player can win by matching or suiting the previous card that has been received. Bets are paid according to a payout table. Additionally, the player has the option of placing a single... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C. Suite 522

20090224473 - Chucker with slits and medal game device: A chucker with slits, capable of reducing the scale of a device with a simple configuration and allowing the degree of difficulty of medal passage to be adjusted properly and conveniently according to the situation of a game, and a medal game device using the chucker with slits, are provided.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090224474 - Big event, air drop lottery system: A big event, air drop lottery system that includes a lifting apparatus, such as a helicopter, a hot air balloon, or a crane, that lifts a large container filled with a large quantity of ping pong balls that include a lottery number or unique identifier that matches a lottery number... Agent: Dean A. Craine

20090224475 - Sic-bo automated dice-cage and method of implementing the same: A Sic-bo automated dice-cage has a control module, a dice module and a switch module. The dice module is connected to the control module and has a base, a dice container, multiple dice, a shaker and a cover. The dice container is pellucid and is mounted on the base. The... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090224476 - Card reading shoe with inventory correction feature and methods of correcting inventory: Methods and apparatus for identifying unexpected cards in a card handling device are disclosed. The method comprises providing a card handling device, wherein the card handling device comprises card storage area, an output end for the manual removal of cards, a processor with associated memory and a card recognition system... Agent: Mark A&#x3e Litman And Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20090224477 - Board game and method of play: A game apparatus for one or more players having at least a first game member that includes a puzzle or a game area having indicia forming a grid having a plurality of cells, the first game member displaying the solution indicia for some of the cells and the remaining cells... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090224480 - Asia poker with three hands per player and bonus payout: The standard game of Asia Poker is modified by dividing the seven cards dealt to each participant into three groups or hands rather than two, with the three groups containing four cards, two cards or one card, respectively. To win, a player must win on at least two of three... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090224479 - Complementary game for games of chance: The complementary game for games of chance of the present invention is directed towards a supplementary game that can be simultaneously and parallely during a game of chance. To dos so, the player may play a supplementary bet during the a game of chance by choosing an option from an... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20090224478 - Gaming system, gaming device and method for providing draw poker game: A gaming system having a five card draw poker game is provided. The gaming system causes an initial five card hand to be dealt to the player and also causes a first draw card to be revealed to the player. The player has the option to keep or discard the... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090224481 - Game machine: A game machine (1) includes a game board (3) having a housing section opened on a game surface, a target which is provided to the housing section so as to freely appear and disappear, and a target driving mechanism which is provided into the game board and allows the target... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090218764 - Blackjack strategy: Disclosed is a chart containing a strategy to play the game of blackjack cards where the chart can clip to your shirt sleeve or watch band or can be worn like a wristband for easy viewing of the card player.... Agent: Michael Ries

20090218765 - Odd-shaped three-dimensional logical puzzles: A method used to convert easily any given odd-shaped solid into perfectly interfitting elements to create three-dimensional puzzles. The method is based on steps producing mobile elements, carrying elements and optionally a center element and implementing holding means, retaining means and translating-rotating motions. Procedures also explain how to add secret... Agent: Maxime Paquette

20090218766 - Face painting game: A game incorporating traditional face-painting techniques of face painting, comprising a set of instructions, a means for determining which instructions are given to which player; and a face painting device for use by a player carrying out the face painting instructions. The instructions direct a player to paint another player's... Agent: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP

20090218767 - Apparatus and method of using an apparatus to conduct a wagering game: An apparatus for conducting a wagering game includes standard cards having a value and a suit supplemented with at least one special card. The special card may take the form of a substitute card that substitutes for a subset of values among the values of the standard cards. The special... Agent: Robert Ryan Morishita Morishita Law Firm, LLC

20090218768 - Smarty smart sticks: The present invention discloses an article of manufacture comprising a game which includes playing media such as sticks or cards. The playing media have a first side with an identifying indicia and a second side with a question and its corresponding answer. The game consists of players collecting sticks for... Agent: Gearhart Law, LLC

20090218769 - Dart board with digital target display ring (dtdr): The present invention features a dart board comprising a digital target display ring (DTDR) surrounding a target area. The DTDR is operatively connected to a controller with a microprocessor, wherein said microprocessor is configured to (a) receive an input signal from an input device when the input device is actuated,... Agent: Nw-ip-law