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Amusement devices: games June invention type 06/11

20110156348 - Simulating sports board game using bottle caps: A game using bottle caps or similar shape pieces, to represent: soccer, baseball, football or basketball players. The bottle caps are used on a rug or similar material that simulates the surface of the field. The bottle caps “kick, pass, shoot, throw” (hitting) a proportional realistic ball or “run” (slide)... Agent:

20110156349 - Chip earning for prolonged player interest: Poker players lose interest when a game is finished. Methods and devices are described that continue interest over longer series of games. Token rewards are given for long multiple hand playing that can be exchanged for drawing one or more cards in a later hand. Another reward for long term... Agent: Forward Thinking Inc.

20110156350 - Visual perceptual skill building game: The present invention provides a system which helps a user develop his or her visual perceptual skills in a game-style activity that is challenging and interesting, and encourages sustained visual attention with self-checking of answers. The present invention may develop the seven visual perceptual skills identified in the widely used... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation

20110156351 - Bottle cap golf apparatus and method: A target apparatus adapted to receive projectiles such as bottle caps tossed or otherwise launched towards the target. Three vertically aligned catch structures are disposed to receive and retain the bottle caps. The three catch structures have different sizes resulting in different degrees of difficulty in projecting a bottle cap... Agent:

20110148036 - Football board game and method: Slyder Football™ is a board game simulating American football. The game board has enclosed sides and the playing surface has a simulated, full size football field with designated scoring areas in each end zone. The players move a simulated football token by “thumping” it with their finger through obstacles located... Agent:

20110148037 - Adjustable gaming reel: A reel assembly for a gaming machine is disclosed. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, alignment of the center lines of the symbols can be accomplished without the need to remove the reel assemblies from the gaming machine. The reel assembly includes a two piece motor mount... Agent:

20110148038 - Apparatus for detecting playing card ranks and method of use: A card reader apparatus including at least an ultraviolet emitter and ultraviolet detector for use with specialized playing cards marked at least partially with ultraviolet ink. In general, the ultraviolet detector is configured to determine an amount of light being reflected off of the specialized cards when subjected to ultraviolet... Agent:

20110148039 - Interactive sporting apparatus: There is disclosed interactive sporting apparatus comprising a control unit (2) and a plurality of interactive units (4), the interactive units comprising: at least one signalling device (52,54) which is operable to generate a sensory stimulus or a signalling device interface adapted (51) to demountably retain a signalling device for... Agent:

20110148040 - Electronic puzzle with problem-solution features for proper placement of puzzle pieces: A puzzle game system is provided comprising a plurality of puzzle pieces that include one part of a problem-solution pair for assisting the user in determining the proper placement of pieces within the puzzle, the system further including means for detecting when adjoining pieces are in proper placement, or where... Agent:

20110148041 - Systems and methods for providing electric power to mobile and arbitrarily positioned devices: Various contact systems and methods for manufacturing and using such are disclosed herein. Examples of the contact systems include a surface with one set of pads biased at a first voltage level, and another set of pads biased at a second voltage level. Such a contact system can be used,... Agent: Childlikes, Inc.

20110148042 - Baseball card game: A baseball card game for play by two players or two player groups is described. It is comprised of two card sets of a predetermined identical number of pitch cards and one card set of offensive action cards and one card set of defensive action cards. The pitch cards have... Agent:

20110140358 - Game method, system and apparatus: A wagering game based upon one or more events. The wagering game can include a game board having any number of wagering areas disposed thereon. The wagering areas may further include one or more sets of wagering odds. Additionally, the game board can be correlated to an event which is... Agent: Amplified Alliance Entertainment

20110140361 - Card game: A novel card game wherein a player may place a Pair Of Aces Or Better wager and/or Poker wager, then an optional Bonus wager. A Player's Pair Of Aces Or Better wager wins if the Player's hand is a pair of Aces or better, and wherein the Player's two or... Agent:

20110140359 - Five star black jack: A method for maintaining an equally likely mode on a gaming table in a gaming system, the method comprising initiating acquisition of more game points than a game dealer without exceeding a predetermined total. Initiating accumulation of a winning game sequence without exceeding the predetermined total, whereby a player plays... Agent:

20110140362 - Methods and systems for playing baccarat jackpot with an option for insurance betting: Methods for carrying out any or all the steps of the disclosed gaming method for playing jackpot and live baccarat games with an option for insurance betting. After first two cards are dealt to a player's hand and a banker's hand, according to a set of baccarat rules, and one... Agent:

20110140360 - Relationship games: A series of games are disclosed which test the ability of players to ascertain and identify the existence of relationships between topics in a structured fashion. Players can play against each other or against pre-established standards.... Agent:

20110140363 - Moveable soccer goal safety system: s

20110133402 - Three-dimensional object with replaceable inserts: A three-dimensional object with one or more inserts has a body having at least one cavity on an exterior surface, and at least one insert that is sized and shaped to be inserted into the at least one cavity in three or more orientations. An attachment secures the at least... Agent:

20110133403 - Apparatus and method for spectator amusement and direct marketing of goods and/or services: An apparatus for spectator amusement and direct marketing of goods and/or services. The apparatus comprises a support; a plurality of first generally cylinder-like structures of a first size, each structure being open at one end and closed at another and opposite end, being arranged side-by-side in a selected series along... Agent:

20110133404 - Halloween afternoon at dracula 3-d castle board game: A Halloween Afternoon at Dracula's Castle board game which comprises a game board having a first outer pathway level, a second middle pathway level and a third inner pathway level. A plurality of playing pieces is for use by players, wherein the playing pieces are positionable on the spaces. A... Agent:

20110133405 - Multilingual-tile word games: In a set of multilingual tiles, each tile bears a first character of a first language and also bears a second character of a second language. Tiles are positioned by players of a game, to form words in an inherently multilingual educational and entertainment experience. Tile characters are not mere... Agent:

20110133406 - Game apparatus which combines with gears and blocks: The present invention discloses a game apparatus which combines with gears and blocks. A top surface of a block unit is provided with at least one gear unit, a shaft at a bottom of the gear unit is snapped into a hole at a top of the block unit, and... Agent:

20110133407 - Polyhedral playing card set: Provided is a polyhedral playing card set for a pegboard used for rehabilitation activities such as sensorimotor function therapy, cognition therapy, occupational therapy, etc. for nerve palsy patients or hemiplegic patients who have suffered neurological damage. The polyhedral playing cards are matched and inserted into polyhedral recesses formed in the... Agent:

20110133408 - Method and system for game play: The present invention relates to a system and a method for interactive entertainment involving a game. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for playing a game involving interactive generation of a visual image and a lingual definition of a precursor constructed phrase and image portion by a... Agent:

20110127716 - Target assembly for a golf putting game: The present invention is directed to target assembly for receiving a golf ball comprising a plurality of parallel golf ball receiving elongate channels; each channel having substantially the same width the other channels and each channel comprising a plurality of discrete golf ball receiving zones. That the channels may be... Agent:

20110127717 - Puzzle: A hidden maze puzzle device includes one or more traps, wherein when one of the traps is activated by a user, a reset action is triggered to send the user back to the start of the puzzle. The puzzle includes an outer housing section, a shaft section slidably and rotatably... Agent:

20110127718 - Apparatus and method for an illusionary three-dimensional puzzle: Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes, a substrate having a first side and a second side, wherein the substrate is divided into a plurality of pieces, and a two-dimensional image situated on at least one of the first side and second side of the substrate, wherein each piece contains... Agent: Patch Products, Inc.

20110127719 - Electronic board game: An electronic board game for at least two players, comprising an electronic device containing blocks to set the fundamental parameters and rules of the game and to create a game board with fields and with game pieces in the initial and current positions, which also contains the third block for... Agent:

20110127720 - tower: 3d chess platform: Whereas prior art inventions had sets with widely spaced and fixed boards, this invention—for playing chess and its variants in the third dimension; has seventeen interlocking, interchangeable, rotating, revolving parts. When fully constructed the several parts forms a tower with eight interlocking, rotating, revolving tiers no more than three and... Agent:

20110127722 - Casino table capable of tracking gaming cards: The present invention is to provide a casino table capable of adequately determining whether a dishonest act is committed on a card arranged on a casino table while reducing a maintenance cost, a personnel cost, etc., by using a normal card not containing the tag, etc. A game surface is... Agent: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

20110127721 - Method of playing a casino game: A method of playing a casino game can be played in conjunction with primary common casino table games such as Blackjack, Poker, Pai Gow games, Baccarat, Acey-Deucey, and any game with six player locations. The game of the present invention employs two identical dice and a third different colored dice... Agent:

20110127723 - Marksman target stand: A firearms marksman target stand comprising a rigid plastic pipe frame connected by plastic joints encompassing a solid foam board backing to hold sheet targets. Said foam board backing is connected to and away from frame sides and at the top and bottom by plastic cable ties forming the framed... Agent:

20110127724 - Games using darts or arrows: The present document describes games using darts or arrows. More particularly, this description relates to targets and accessories used for new games.... Agent: