Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Betting or wagering board
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-04
2001-07-10
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Betting or wagering board
Reexamination Certificate
active
06257579
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to games and, more particularly, to dice games.
2. Brief Description of the Prior Art
Many dice games from Craps, Casino Craps, Hi-Lo, Under and Over Seven, Bar Booth, Beat the Shake, and even the games of Monopoly and Trivia are games in which decisions are made on the roll of the dice. The object of the present invention is to modify the established practices, rules and formats of conventional Dice Craps, Bar Booth and the card game of Baccarat into a simple, reduced and combined BANK-PLAYER format. The BANK-PLAYER line bets are a dead-even chance (50-50 even money) with correct (true and exact) odds for all other bets in the instant game for a single participant shooter and any number of additional participants. These participants can, for amusement, or in most applicable cases, for chance, by a roll and/or hand of the dice, have a dead even (50-50) chance of rolling a BANK or PLAYER line bet decision that pays even money, and obtain correct (true and exact) odds on all other bets or opportunities in the instant game. In the well known dice game of Craps or Casino Craps and most other dice games, you must have two dice numbered from one to six in such a way that the spot numbers on opposite sides add to seven. All casinos maintain a standard house or retained percentage odds and always pay less than correct odds on all bets in the casino, to provide profit based on the total dollars wagered. Most of the house percentages are hidden, confusing or almost mathematically impossible for the participants to analyze or figure. In Casino Craps, the percentage returns to the house establishment are calculated into the bets and odds as the game is played, while DICE-BACCARAT has no advantage or disadvantage in percentage or odds on the BANK-PLAYER line bets, exact decision numbers or one-roll-action bets, other than the 5% laid with all bets. For example, a participant lays a $21 bet to win $20. If the laid $21 bet wins, participant wins only $20. If participant loses the bet, he loses the $21. Only on participants losing bets is the 5% commission retained, picked up by the house establishment. This is the only advantage that the house establishment has booking and/or operating the instant game.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is a method of playing a dice game between a first and a second player comprising the steps of:
(a) defining a first plurality of possible dice combinations having a first probability of occurrence;
(b) defining a second plurality of possible dice combinations having a second probability of occurrence, wherein the first probability of occurrence is equal to the second probability of occurrence and no combination in the second plurality of possible dice combinations is the same as any combination in the first plurality of possible dice combinations;
(c) allowing a first player to throw the dice and to obtain a first actual dice combination;
(d) declaring a win for the first player if the first actual dice combination is the same as one of the first plurality of possible dice combinations;
(e) declaring a win for the second player if the first actual dice combination is the same as one of the second plurality of possible dice combinations; and
(f) if a win is not declared under either step (d) or step (e) then allowing the first player to throw the dice again and obtain a second actual dice combination, and if said second actual dice combination is the same as one of the first plurality of possible dice combinations declaring a win for the first player, and if said second actual dice combination is the same as one of the second plurality of possible dice combinations declaring a win for the second player.
Preferably, if in step (f) no win is declared for either the first or the second player, then step (f) is continuously repeated until a win is declared for either the first player or the second player.
This invention relates to a method of playing a dice game that has a dead-even (50-50) chance of a win-lose BANK-PLAYER bet decision for a single dice shooter and other possible participants. Other combined betting opportunities with correct (true and exact) odds for NO casino (house) establishment advantage are available except for an up-front mandate 5% commission laid with every bet and only collected on losing bets. This invention more particularly allows that a single participant (one shooter) and any number of additional participants may obtain a dead-even (50-50) win-lose bet on a BANK-PLAYER line bet decision (even money) and/or correct (true and exact) odds on all bets in the instant game DICE-BACCARAT with two six-sided conventional casino dice. The game of the present invention sometimes referred to herein as “DICE-BACCARAT” requires no mathematical percentage odds calculations as all bets have no casino retention percentage advantage: thus, no disadvantage to the participants except the 5% commission charge, laid and only collected on losing bets. Any number of participants may engage in any or all of the betting opportunities in a given hand. The shooter must make a BANK-PLAYER line bet to insure completion of that hand. At any time prior to the passing of the dice to the shooter by the dealer, any and all bets on the formatted layout are permitted up to house establishment bet limits. Any bets may also be changed, offed (no bet for that roll) or cancelled (bet and commission returned prior to shooter receiving the dice).
In Casino Craps any number may participate. In Casino Craps there is a single participant throwing the dice and he/she is called the shooter. Any number may participate but a single participant is the only person throwing the dice in the instant game DICE-BACCARAT and he/she also is called the shooter. A new participant or any other number of participants may enter the game at any time and place a bet at any time anywhere on the copyright formatted DICE-BACCARAT layout, prior to the shooter receiving the dice from the Dealer (stickman) and any throw of the dice by the shooter. All wagers must be placed before the dice are thrown; bets cannot be made while the dice are rolling. All bets made on DICE-BACCARAT are final once made (laid) and confirmed, and the dice are passed to the shooter. Obviously, the losing bets will be picked up with the required 5% commission by the house establishment. A participant may direct a Dealer to change (move); off (cancel) a bet for that one roll; or cancel any bet (bet and commission are returned) prior to the shooter receiving the dice. Once the shooter receives the dice, all bets stand until prior to the next throwing of the dice (stickman passes dice to shooter). In Casino Craps, the dice pass after a seven (7) out, from participant to participant, to the left, clockwise. In DICE-BACCARAT, after a Player dice combination number decision is thrown in a hand, the dice pass to the next participant to the left, clockwise. The shooter/participant, at his option, may continue as the shooter as long as the previous completed hand was a BANK dice combination number decision. Any shooter may pass the dice in Casino Craps prior to a come-out, but never in the middle of a hand. A hand in Casino Craps and DICE-BACCARAT is come-out (start of a new decision) through completion of a decision on the line bets. In DICE-BACCARAT, every shot of the dice is a come-out, therefore, a shooter may cancel his line bet at any time prior to receiving the dice from the Dealer, which causes the dice to pass to the next shooter.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4346900 (1982-08-01), Lamlee
patent: 5513850 (1996-05-01), Vancura
patent: 5556101 (1996-09-01), Jabro
patent: 5775696 (1998-07-01), Sidlow et al.
Layno Benjamin H.
Long Daniel J.
Sand & Sebolt
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