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Amusement devices: games May archived by USPTO category 05/11

20110121511 - Player key for an instant-win lottery ticket and method for validating same: A game ticket is disclosed. The game ticket includes a first and second indicia concealed by a removable opaque covering and indicating visually whether the game ticket is a winning ticket. The first indicia is located with a game play area. The second indicia includes a first player key located... Agent: Gtech Rhode Island Corporation

20110121512 - Waist-mounted tethered ball and target: A game device has a target plate fixed to the waist area of a person who will play the game, and a ball is tethered to the target plate. The tether is flexible to allow the ball to engage a target on the target plate. To facilitate control of the... Agent:

20110115155 - Led pinball machine graphics display: The subject invention discloses an improved pinball machine and a method of updating existing pinball machines by replacing existing internal gas tube graphic displays with bright, large LED dot matrix or plasma dot matrix displays. These bright and large displays may be attached to a pinball machine within the backbox,... Agent:

20110115156 - Mechanical slot machine reel having four viewable front symbol positions: An example gaming machine includes a reel including plurality of symbol positions located around a circumference of the reel. Each symbol occupies a defined viewing angle. The gaming machine includes a motor to drive the reel to spin in a gaming machine housing. The gaming machine includes a controller controlling... Agent: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited

20110115157 - Game tower: A game apparatus and a method using a light source, a convex mirror and an optical sensor, all disposed within a housing, are described. The housing is transparent to the range of wavelengths from the light source and is composed of a low distortion scratch-resistant material. A game board is... Agent:

20110115158 - Multi-projector gaming table: Electronic wagering game tables (a.k.a. e-tables) are described herein. Some embodiments include a wagering game table for presenting a wagering game. The wagering game table can include a projection surface, and a first projector configured to present, at a first resolution, a first background image on the projection surface, wherein... Agent: Wms Gaming, Inc.

20110115161 - Card game: A card game is disclosed in which participants arrange six poker cards into three hands, including a one-card hand, a two-card hand, and a three-card hand. Wagers are placed on each of the participant's hands. The participants compete their hands against at least one other participant's hands to determine who... Agent:

20110115160 - Commissionless pai gow with dealer qualification: A pai gow poker game without a house commission is disclosed. After shuffling the cards and determining the order in which players are dealt, the players place wagers on the game outcome. Then, the dealer deals to the player positions and the dealer position. The dealer, either before or after... Agent:

20110115159 - Texas hold'em with additional features: Texas Hold'em is played between human and virtual machine players on electronic equipment. The virtual players fold up and the human does not. This allows the human to see the hold cards of the opponents and adds excitement to the game. Optionally, the human player gets a bonus for having... Agent: Forward Thinking Inc.

20110115162 - 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:

20110115163 - Game machine: A game machine comprises a housing, a user access panel having a controller, a money acceptor, a rotating field having a surface for receiving a plurality of objects situated thereon, a retriever that is movable along a track that is supported by the housing for enabling movement of the retriever... Agent: Elaut Usa, Inc.

20110109040 - Roulette-type game with multiple tracks: The play of roulette-type game is made more enticing by offering for a single bet a range of payouts from very modest with a high frequency to very great with low frequency. This is achieved without changing the underlying roulette-type game. In a twelve-position roulette, six balls can be used... Agent: Ingenio, Filiale De Loto-qu&#xc9 Bec Inc.

20110109041 - Card and dice wagering game: A card and dice game allows a player to bet on the outcome of a comparison of a numerical value determined by a roll of one or more dice and another numerical value determined by a card drawn from a deck. The player wagers that the difference between the card... Agent:

20110109042 - Automatic system and methods for accurate card handling: A playing card handling device is disclosed, comprising a card storing area that supports a stack of playing cards, the storing area having a playing card support surface. A card removing system is provided that removes playing cards individually from the bottom of the stack. A pivoting arm is automatically... Agent:

20110109044 - Method of playing blackjack with auxiliary side wager feature: A method of playing the standard game of Blackjack which includes at least one auxiliary wagering feature pertaining to various outcomes of a players hand is provided. In addition to the standard game of Blackjack, the present invention provides the option of wagering on the numerical outcome of the player's... Agent:

20110109043 - Wagering game based on bayes' theorem: A method to implement a casino card game. After the player places an ante wager, the dealer can deal three cards and the player selects a player selected card and the dealer randomly selects a dealer selected card. The goal for both the player and the dealer is to pick... Agent:

20110109045 - Dartboard structure and electronic device for the same: An electronic device for a dartboard structure is disclosed. The dartboard structure comprises a body with a board-surface, a sensing module, a body processing module and a first wireless communication interface. The electronic device comprises a second wireless communication interface, a central processing module and a display module. The sensing... Agent: Behavior Tech Computer Corp.

20110101605 - Game machine: A main CPU of a game machine for playing a game with playing balls allows a player to launch the playing balls until 30 seconds have lapsed after the player inserted a predetermined amount of metal money into the game machine. Whenever the playing ball enters any predetermined win hole... Agent: Kyoraku Industrial Co., Ltd.

20110101606 - Game machine: A main CPU of a game machine outputs launching control data for enabling playing balls to be launched for 30 consecutive seconds to a launching drive circuit after the player inserted a predetermined amount of coins into the game machine. A launching strength generation circuit generates launching strength determined in... Agent: Kyoraku Industrial Co., Ltd.

20110101607 - Gaming dice and a game: A gaming dice (1) and a game with a gaming dice (1), such as a board game or a card game, said gaming dice (1) comprising a body part comprising at least six sides (2) wherein at least one or more of those sides (2) is/are provided with means (3)... Agent: Lego A/s

20110101608 - Puzzle plane generation system and method for generating puzzle plane: Puzzle plane information where, for each of a matrix of cells M constituting a puzzle plane Q, position coordinates and line type information 22 where line types of the two sides crossing at a predetermined corner are connected to each other is stored. A line information generation unit 10a and... Agent: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

20110101609 - Mechanical puzzle with hinge elements, rope elements, and knot elements: In one embodiment of the present invention, cubes with beveled edges that are joined by hinge elements can be folded into a larger cube. In another embodiment, a puzzle object with a plurality of holes may have a rope element threaded through it so as to conceal knot elements. In... Agent:

20110101610 - Transportation game for simulating movement about a city or other area: A transportation game that simulates movement about a city, town or other area using different modes of transportation and different station locations as stops for the modes of transportation. In a preferred embodiment, the game is configured as a board game with a map of the area on the surface... Agent:

20110101611 - Transaction product with foldable sheet: A transaction product includes a first cover panel, a second cover panel, and an intermediate sheet, and an account identifier. The intermediate sheet transitions between a collapsed and an extended position and defines fold lines dividing the intermediate sheet into sections. When the intermediate sheet is in the collapsed position,... Agent: Target Brands, Inc.

20110101612 - Method of playing a poker-type game: A method of playing a succession of poker-type games that has a two-card, revealed, starter hand and a plurality of sets of five unrevealed community cards. The starter hand remains the same for all games of the succession of games. In each game a player wagers on one or more... Agent: New Vision Gaming & Development, Inc.