Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor – Electrical
Patent
1991-10-23
1993-01-12
Millin, V.
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
Electrical
273269, 273138A, 273144R, A63F 306
Patent
active
051783959
ABSTRACT:
An electronic displaying device, together with a control unit and electronic circuitry appropriate to the encoding, sending, receiving, decoding, and displaying of data as used in various games, such as Bingo, Keno, or the like, in which a plurality of players may participate. In the exemplary game of Bingo, for instance, light-weight plastic balls, each marked with a letter and a number, are randomly selected and deposited into apertures in a console, by which action they are automatically identified through the breaking of one row and one column infra-red light beam of a coordinate grid of such beams. Through electronic encoding, transmitting, receiving, and decoding, the aforesaid letter-number combination is substantially instantaneously displayed in two places on a display board or a video monitor. The numbers are continuously selected and progressively displayed until a round of play has been completed in accordance with various rules of the game being played. When this occurs, the display board is cleared and all of the balls are reloaded to begin the next round of play. The console contains manually operated controls which affect the game data stored in memory and thus the display board, also.
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Harrison Jessica J.
Millin V.
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