Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Patent
1996-07-12
1998-11-17
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
A63F 900
Patent
active
058368167
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention relates to the field of games of chances and in particular, it relates to games of chances where a player selects symbols and/or letters and/or a combination of symbols and letters that are appointed later in a random drawing. Among the classes of games of chances are e.g. lotto and casino games, horse- and car races.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Traditionally, games of chances such as lotto and pick games have been played by randomly drawing play symbols. The collection of play symbols could be numerals and/or letters and/or combinations of the two.
Systems that determine winning play symbols are various; such as there are techniques to repeatedly drawing objects, like balls that display different numerals or letters, or dices that are thrown during a play at a casino, or random chosen numerals or letters or combinations of the two that are displayed on an indicator screen, or announcing winning numbers of horses or cars that won a race.
From U.S. Pat. No. 5,106,089 a method of playing a pick (m) or pick (p)((m).noteq.(p)) game is known, in which a player first selects (m) or (p) numerals or letters or combinations of the two. Drawings of the (m) numerals or letters or combinations of the two can be either held off-line at a central location or displayed real-time on a large indicator screen during, for example, a Television show, or announced during a play at a casino.
During a game (n) balls are mixed in a mostly transparent rotating globe. The globe is connected to a mechanism of (m) receptacles ((m)s(n)) that accept one ball at the time. After the first randomly selected ball has fallen in the most right of (m) receptacles the mechanism will move up one place to the right. The system is now ready to accept the next randomly chosen ball. This action continues until (m) shifts to the right have been made. The sum of the set of (m) balls constitutes the winning number. If the number of the sum selected by the player is identical to the number of the sum (S) of the (m) numerals drawn from the globe, the player wins the game.
The amount of money won by a player, usually set for each game separately, is based on the probability of selecting the winning sum number (S) that is composed of the sum, of (m) randomly chosen numerals and the total amount of money composed of the stakes of the wagers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
One of the objects of this invention is to provide a method of playing a game of chance wherein a set of say (m) winning play symbols are first randomly selected from a collection of say (n) play symbols, after which the sum (S) is appointed. A play symbol is hereinafter defined as any type of symbol which can be used in a game of chance such as functional symbols (like indicia of articles of use), playing cards, numerals, letters and/or combinations of them all.
The word "player" in the description of this invention includes the notion "multiple players" as well. It therefore suffices to use the notion "a or the player".
A priory a player selects a number or other play indicia from a first set of play indicia, each play indicia representing a combination of say (m) play symbols taken from the set of say (n) play symbols. After the player has selected the number or other play indicia a set of winning play symbols is randomly selected from a collection of play symbols by a drawing. Upon drawing of the winning play symbols, the player compares his bet which he selected to the winning play symbols to determine if he has won the game.
The possible bets are increased in that in case a winning combination of say (m) play symbols taken from the set of say (n) play symbols results in the drawing of the play symbol that proceeds from the combination of the maximum number of possibilities to compose (m) combinations of play symbols out of the set of say (n) play symbols, the game of chance requires an additional drawing of say (v) further play symbols taken from the set of say (w) further play symbols (1.ltoreq.(v)<(w)) to decrease the chance of winning.
Consequent
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patent: 4842278 (1989-06-01), Markowicz
patent: 5106089 (1992-04-01), Wood
patent: 5269523 (1993-12-01), Boylan et al.
Bruin Wim
Frietman Edward E. E.
Grootens Ton
Grieb William H.
Tosso B.V.
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