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Amusement devices: games December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/09

20090322021 - Hockey exhibit with hockey simulation and promotional methods used in connection therewith: Promotional methods used in connection with hockey exhibits and hockey simulations are disclosed. A hockey simulation is provided comprising at least one mannequin resembling a hockey player arranged on a playing surface adjacent a target. The target is adapted to receive a hockey puck directed by a participant in the... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090322022 - Games machine: A games machine (1) includes a video display screen (10) with a transparent front screen (10) in front and a token passage (14) between display screen and front screen. Tokens or coins may be introduced through one or more token inlets (50,52) at the top of the token passage and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090322023 - Dice cup: A dice cup for use in dice games involving concealment of the dice, including an open top end and an open bottom end, a closed opaque wall extending therebetween, and a longitudinal axis. A plurality of spaced-apart slats are disposed across the bottom end so as to define a plurality... Agent: Stainbrook & Stainbrook, LLP

20090322024 - Poker dice game: The present invention relates to a game of dice wherein each player (i) draws a hand of at least three dice, wherein each die possesses a number of sides, an equivalent number of consecutive numerical values with one numerical value per side, and a suit, the suits being ranked from... Agent: Mark J. Cohen, Esq. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090322025 - Playing card viewing device: A card viewing device has a housing having opposed first and second side walls, opposed front and rear walls, a card-accepting entranceway in a lower portion of the front wall, a viewing aperture in an upper portion of the rear wall, and an optical system within the housing for projecting... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20090322026 - Led chess set: In a light emitting diode (LED) chess set, when a chess piece of the chess set is placed on a chessboard, a power supply element in the chessboard will supply power to an LED in the chess piece to emit light, so that the chess piece gives a light emitting... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20090322027 - Auto racing board game: Disclosed is an auto racing board game comprising a foldable planar member, a plurality of toy cars, and at least one die. The foldable planar member comprises a race track imprinted thereon. The race track comprises a plurality of lanes, each of the plurality of lanes divided into a plurality... Agent: Michael Ries

20090315256 - Miracle five game: The present invention relates to a board game in which two or more players attempt to set three or more playing elements in a row on grid based playing surface either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Players take turns either setting or moving a playing element. A playing element may be... Agent: Zuber & Taillieu LLP

20090315257 - Musical playing card board game: A musical board game and playing method that permits players to respond to playing cards both visually and aurally without requiring additional manual intervention by the game player. By incorporating computer-readable indicia such as RFID tags or bar codes in player's cards and providing a suitable computer assisted reader in... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20090315258 - Interactive game board system incorporating capacitive sensing and identification of game pieces: An interactive game board system includes a game board, a plurality of capacitive sensors embedded in the game board, a microprocessor with input channels for the capacitive sensors, computer memory means, software instructions and data for directing an interactive game, one or more playing pieces with electrically an conductive portion,... Agent: Rylander & Associates PC

20090315259 - Pathology game and method of playing same: A pathology board game includes a colored game board comprising (a) an illustration of the human circulatory system comprising organs and limbs; and (b) a colored circle or wheel comprising a plurality of diseases, each disease having its own number and color; a plurality of treatment/remedy cards, wherein each card... Agent: Cahn & Samuels LLP

20090315260 - Method of playing a board game: A method of play in a word-forming board game that provides a strategic blocking capability, implemented with a blocking tile that may be placed adjacent to letter tiles.... Agent: Joseph W. Judge

20090315263 - Domino game: A method of playing a domino match is disclosed in which the players of the match play a plurality of domino games, with each game including at least one hand. The players are awarded points throughout the first domino game. The players may risk the awarded points earned throughout the... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20090315264 - Seven-card poker game with pot game feature: A method of playing a wagering game is disclosed. The method includes the step of providing a standard deck of playing cards. Each participating player makes a mandatory Ante wager and a mandatory Blind wager to participate in the game. A dealer deals a plurality of at least three cards... Agent: Mark A&#x3e Litman And Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20090315262 - Wagering game combining baccarat and poker: A method, system, and computer readable storage medium for implementing a wagering game. The wagering game allows a player place an initial wager, and then to take initial cards subsequently dealt to him, and split it into two separate hands, a baccarat hand and a poker hand. The dealer is... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20090315261 - Multiple round pokers: A method of playing a casino wagering card game, featuring multiple rounds of dealing poker hands, out of the same deck(s), and before a new shuffle, and or a new deck(s) of cards being used. Joker(s) are not used in the preferred way of playing the game, but may be... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090315265 - Target stand: A target stand is disclosed that comprises a target frame supported on a shelf having a pair of legs mounted in spaced relation. The legs pivotal and adjustable between a storage position and a shooting position. The storage position having the target frame intermediate to and parallel to the legs.... Agent: Ian F. Burns & Associates

20090309302 - Logic puzzle: A three-dimensional polyhedra-form logic puzzle comprised of a plurality of independent, non-interconnected puzzle elements of three-dimensional geometric, axially-symmetric, pyramidal-peaked form including one or more apex-opposed polygon faces and a plurality of radial faces. Each edge of an apex-opposed face that contacts a radial face presents visible design indicia. Radial faces... Agent: Linda Flewellen Gould

20090309303 - Method and system for identifying a game piece: A method and system for determining the presence and identity of a game piece placed at a sensing location by attaching one or more conductive rings at fixed concentric locations on the bottom of the game piece and sensing the presence or absence of the conductive rings by means of... Agent: Rylander & Associates PC

20090309304 - Match up: A matching game apparatus and method of play comprising a gaming board in the form of a grid with a starting space located thereon. Indicia bearing tiles are pulled at random by the players, who commence play by amassing an initial set of tiles and a first player setting a... Agent: Lauson & Tarver LLP

20090309305 - modified game of twenty-one having modified limits and payouts and method of playing: A method of playing a playing card wagering game comprises: placing a first minimum wager within a table limit, the first minimum wager establishing a minimum wager and a maximum wager the player may bet until all of the playing cards have been played and the playing cards are reshuffled... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20090309306 - Trading card game including spheres in the play pattern: A trading card game that includes a deck of cards and a plurality of spheres is disclosed. Each card includes an identical back surface and a face surface with content thereon. The content of at least a first card is different than the content of other cards. In some embodiments... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090309307 - Toy dart assembly and method: Embodiments of the invention include a method for engaging a dart with a net. A dart is thrown toward a net. When the dart hits the net, the nose of the dart passes through an opening in the net for subsequently, lodging strands of the net in a recess situated... Agent: Law Offices Of John W. Carpenter John W. Carpenter

20090302533 - Game table with hidden display: A game table includes a game playing surface, a display covering and a railing extending around the perimeter of and slightly above the game playing surface. The game table also includes a display unit having a display screen. The display unit may be embedded within the railing, with the covering... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090302534 - Roulette game apparatus and mehtod: A method for arranging indicia on a game surface and on an associated roulette wheel includes arranging indicia indicating numbers from 1 through 36 on the game surface. The numbers are arranged in ascending order with half of the numbers associated with a first color and a remaining half associated... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090302536 - Card cartridge for a shuffling machine: A card cartridge for shuffling machines has a body and a cover. The body has a longitudinal slot defined in the body in a slantwise manner for receiving cards discharged from the shuffling machine, and at least two stops protrude oppositely from two side edges of the body to define... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090302535 - Multiple-inlet shuffling machine: The multiple-inlet shuffling machine has a shuffler and at least two card inputs. The shuffler has a base, a shuffling wheel mounted rotatably on the base and has multiple card slots formed radially around which, and a controller having at least one random number generator (RNG) that generates at least... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20090302537 - Shuffling machine with a detaching assembly for card input and output: A shuffling machine has a shuffler, a card input, a card output, an input detaching assembly and an output detaching assembly. The input detaching assembly is mounted between the shuffler and the card input to connect the card input detachably to the shuffler. The output detaching assembly is mounted between... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20090302538 - Board game having multi-level playing rules: A board game is provided having the theme Death and Taxes. Multiple levels of paths of spaces are indicated on a board, each level having differing rules affecting the amount of scrip currency that a player receives or loses in playing. Players' pieces are moved to differing levels dependent on... Agent: Burleson Cooke L.L.P.

20090302540 - Casino poker games: A method, system, and computer readable storage medium to provide a player versus dealer poker game which allows the dealer to raise based on the contents of the dealers unrevealed hand. The player can then choose to match the dealer's raise or fold. Then, both the player's hand and the... Agent: Muskin & Cusick LLC

20090302539 - Ez dominoes: EZ Dominoes is a casino game that allows players to play with Chinese Dominoes. This game adds a whole new twist for playing with its betting systems, “13 chains”. Players can enjoy the different payout styles that EZ Dominoes has to offer and compete against the house with the EZ... Agent: Yung Chuan Tuan

20090302541 - Deck of playing cards: The present invention concerns a deck of playing cards (1), whereon one or two signs distinctive of each card are represented, and is characterized in that each card provides one or two hollowed areas (41, 42) to thereupon facilitate placement of the fingertips when fanning out said cards as a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090302542 - Swinging horseshoe game: A suspended horseshoe game comprised of a horseshoe, a tether attached at its lower end to the horseshoe, and at its upper end to a supporting structure, and of a target vertical pole. This game consists of swinging the horseshoe toward the target pole such that the horseshoe wraps itself... Agent: George S. Levy

20090295085 - Darts scoreboard: The game of darts may be played in a number of different ways with each game having its own rules and scoring processes. The present invention discloses a multi-purpose scoreboard utilizing a series of cylinders to record scoring results. The unit can be wall mounted. A darts scoreboard. mechanism containing... Agent: Peter Mandt Rauch

20090295086 - Sporting event game apparatus: A game apparatus for use in conjunction with a sporting event is provided which allows players of the game to predict the outcome of actions that occur during the sporting event, and which allows the players to keep track of who has made the greater number of correct predictions.... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20090295087 - One bet card game: A method of playing a card game comprises: each player selecting a value from a predetermined set of values; each player placing one bet; a dealer drawing a predetermined quantity of cards; determining actual value based on the cards drawn by the dealer; and resolving each player's bet wherein the... Agent: Werner Alecsander Kling

20090295090 - 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 LLC

20090295091 - Poker games with player qualification: A method of playing a casino table game is disclosed. Players and a Dealer each receive five cards each to make a best five-card poker hand. Players must make an Ante wager and may optionally make a bonus wager. After considering the cards, the player must make a Play wager... Agent: Mark A&#x3e Litman And Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20090295089 - Shibala: Shibala is a casino game that gives players an alternative to Casino War and Dice. Shibala lets the players compete against the banker to make either the highest or lowest dice combination. Players can enjoy the different method of play offered by Shibala, playing against the dealer or other players... Agent: Yung Chuan Tuan

20090295088 - System and device for determining personality type: A device and method for determining the personality type of a person or a group of persons in the tradition of the Enneagram. The device includes a number of cards and each of the cards has at least a color band, an image and a group of words, which collectively... Agent: Wang & Ho

20090295092 - Trading card game with attack graphic: The game is a trading card game involving 2D attack graphic arts displayed in one or a plurality of cards which incorporate with a particular illustrated character. Attack graphic arts can be selected by the player, and used to “attack” the other player's character.... Agent: Michel Kuneman

20090295093 - Bag toss golf game and game target: A bag toss game target has an angled landing surface with a target opening that rotates on a base of the game target whereby rotation of the landing surface changes direction of the slope of the landing surface and the target opening location relative to the base. The landing surface... Agent: Bruce J. Bowman Bowman & Associates

20090295094 - Adjustable projectile target: The present invention is an adjustable projectile target that includes a support structure that can hold a body portion of the target at various angular positions with regard to the support structure. The support structure allows the body portion to be rotated along both a vertical and a horizontal axis... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090295095 - Prize acquisition game device: Provided is a prize acquisition game device in which a control unit constituted from a microcomputer controls a prize acquisition unit that moves in a game space with a plurality of prizes disposed therein, and controls the acquisition of the prize. The control device moves the prize acquisition unit to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP