Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – With communication link
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-01
2008-07-01
Pezzuto, Robert E (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
With communication link
C463S016000, C463S017000, C463S018000, C463S019000, C463S020000, C463S040000, C273S138100, C273S139000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07393280
ABSTRACT:
A gaming method, apparatus and system for playing a game of chance is disclosed in which a plurality of gaming machines may be linked together for mutually competitive play. According to one embodiment, two or more gaming machines are linked to a centrally located display exhibiting a game board comprising one or more groups of earmarkable cells in one or more groups. Players on the gaming machines wager and attempt to achieve winning outcomes which earmark cells in the group with designators of their respective gaming machines. When a predetermined number or configuration of cells of a group are earmarked, an award may be distributed to those gaming machines having earmarked cells according to the number of designators within that group associated with each gaming machine. The game of chance may be configured for play on an individual gaming machine.
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Bell Boyd & Lloyd LLP
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Pezzuto Robert E
Thomasson Meagan
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