Amusement devices: games inventions

20090267296 - Automatic shuffling machine: An automatic shuffling machine has a shuffling wheel and a card input mounted adjacent to the shuffling wheel for conveying and inserting cards into slots formed in the shuffling wheel. An insertion panel is mounted securely between the card input and the shuffling wheel, may be a curved shape corresponding... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20090267297 - Card shuffler with gravity feed system for playing cards: A card feed system for feeding cards into a card handling system is disclosed. The system includes a card input department with a playing card support surface, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls. The playing card support surface slopes towards the front wall at an angle... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20090267298 - Information carrying device: The invention relates to an information carrying device. The information carrying device comprises a device body formed by a puzzle, which can be folded into a plurality of different shapes, wherein the information carrying device further includes a USB storage unit, which can be hidden and thus is invisible from... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090267299 - Race to the white house board game: Game method and apparatus for racing to the white house by accumulating electoral votes until a winner number is attained, or the election is deadlocked The game is played by moving pieces along a path containing positions each representing the electoral votes of a state.... Agent: J. David Reno C/o Kersey

20090267301 - Card games: A card game in which; one or more cards are dealt to a player; a key card is dealt; the player winning the game if one or more of the cards dealt to the player are of the same suit as the key card.... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20090267300 - Poker games: A method of playing a game, the method comprising the steps of: dealing four cards to a plurality of players; providing two community cards; providing a third community card; providing a fourth community card; allowing at least one player to form at least one five card poker hand, the five... Agent: Roland Tong

20090267302 - Gift acquisition game machine: A gift acquisition game machine 1 is provided with gift acquiring machines 34 each operated by a player to acquire a gift and carry the gift to a gift receiver 44. The gift acquisition game machine 1 has a central unit 2 disposed substantially in a central part of the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090261527 - Gaming chip: The present invention relates to a gaming chip (1) comprising a transparent top wall (2), a bottom wall (3) and a circumferential wall (4) extending there between, said walls (2, 3, 4) forming a cavity (7). According to the invention, at least one of the top and bottom walls (2,... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090261528 - Game apparatus: Apparatus for playing a game, comprising: a base board having a support member configured to rotate upon a support surface by manual operation; a playing board configured to fold into a three-dimensional shape so as to present a plurality of playing surfaces when mounted on the base board; and a... Agent: Arthur Jacob

20090261529 - Baseball game: A board game to emulate the game of baseball wherein dice are rolled with each number signifying a action by the batter. Supplemental dice are also employed for use by both the defensive team and offensive team to force other actions such as steals, double plays, and the like.... Agent: Eric Fincham

20090261530 - Draw for battle: The present invention, referred to as DRAW FOR BATTLE, is a strategic dueling card game, combining an art instructional component as part of interactive card game play. Players must first draw the characters chosen from the PRIMARY DECK during game play before placing them onto the battlefield for combat through... Agent: Jeromye V. Sartain Mind Law Firm

20090256310 - Poker cube game apparatus and method of play: A poker cube game apparatus includes five game cubes with the faces of each cube containing specific images representing the motifs of playing cards. The game cubes are positioned for free movement on a turntable. The turntable is rotated for “shuffling” the cubes within a transparent dome. The upstanding faces... Agent: Natter & Natter

20090256311 - Board game apparatus and method for playing: A game apparatus and method of playing including a playing surface having an impassible outer barrier and several inner barriers. The game playing surface includes a plurality of sequential first areas and a second area wherein gamers shoot their game pieces in turn through the sequential areas until achieving a... Agent: Young Basile

20090256312 - Texture game: The Texture Game 1 is provided for determining the texture of a pair of game pieces 5 that are enclosed in a cylindrical enclosure 2 with open ends, a fabric 3 covers the enclosure 2 and overlaps the open ends, and elastic means 4 sewn into the ends of the... Agent: Ronald C. Capossela

20090256313 - Side bet for the card game of blackjack: A side bet game, for a game of blackjack between a dealer and a player where the player is dealt two initial cards and the dealer is dealt a single initial card, involves allowing the player to place a side bet in addition to a blackjack hand bet of the... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20090256314 - Stationary target assembly: A stationary target assembly includes an assembly support frame having a main frame member and a target support frame member provided on the main frame member and a pair of spaced-apart simulated targets provided on the target support frame member of the assembly support frame.... Agent: John M. Harrison

20090250870 - Variant games of chance using three dice: An apparatus and method of game play comprising three dice. Each of the three dice may be distinctly colored and further include distinct indicia thereon. Preferably, a first die may be six-sided, green in color, and bears a sequential even number (e.g. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12) on... Agent: Hayworth, Chaney & Thomas, P.A.

20090250871 - Prophesy coins game: The Prophesy Coins Game is a unique fortune telling game consisting of eight numbered Prophesy Coins that are obtained randomly from a unique Prophesy Coins Container/Dispenser and used as positional and rotational identifiers to place and orient eight randomly selected tarot cards, from a standard 78 card tarot deck, into... Agent: Richard Tamian

20090250872 - Game of chance: A method of playing a game of chance comprising the steps of defining a set of wagers on the outcome of a plurality of differentiable random events, said random events defining an aggregate event, defining a set of payout odds associated with said wagers, accepting at least one player wager... Agent: Sonnabendlaw

20090250873 - Method for playing a game similar to craps: A method for playing a multi-player table game similar to craps includes use of a point generation device capable of randomly selecting one outcome from a group consisting of thirty-seven or thirty-eight possible outcomes. Betting locations similar to the game of craps are provided on a betting surface (12). Twelve... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090250874 - Casino poker game: The poker game utilizes a single standard fifty-two card deck of playing cards. A dealer deals three cards face down to each poker player. Thereafter, the dealer deals four cards face up on the poker table. Each of the four face up cards are community cards which are available for... Agent: Russo & Duckworth, LLP

20090250877 - Dual action crazy pineapple poker game: Each player receives two hole cards. A first group of community cards and a second group of community cards are dealt. Additional community cards are dealt to each group. Once all cards have been dealt, the highest ranking poker hand from using either of the community card groups is the... Agent: John Edward Roethel

20090250875 - Dual action omaha poker game: Each player receives two hole cards. A first group of community cards and a second group of community cards are dealt. Additional community cards are dealt to each group. Once all cards have been dealt, the highest ranking poker hand from using either of the community card groups is the... Agent: John Edward Roethel

20090250876 - Dual action pineapple poker game: Each player receives two hole cards. A first group of community cards and a second group of community cards are dealt. Additional community cards are dealt to each group. Once all cards have been dealt, the highest ranking poker hand from using either of the community card groups is the... Agent: John Edward Roethel

20090250878 - Poker-type card game and method therefor: A poker-type game capable in which participants compete against a dealer in hands whose number of cards progressively increases. Play begins with two cards dealt to a dealer and two cards dealt to each player. Whoever has a superior two-card hand may place a wager into a transitional wagering area.... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC