Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Ball games
Patent
1990-12-24
1992-06-16
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Ball games
273118A, 273119A, 273121A, G07F 1732
Patent
active
051219190
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a game playing device comprising flat, rolling tokens; area of movement of the play panel and intended for detecting the passing of tokens therethrough, and a prize delivering machinery controlled by the actuating means; panel for launching tokens into the area of movement; receiving tokens passed through the actuating means; and game playing apparatus.
There is a great variety of prior art game playing devices the operation of which is based on the movement of coins or the like, referred to as tokens below, in a vertical play panel and in which a token is dropped or launched into the play panel in an attempt to pass it through one of the actuating means disposed in the area of movement of the play panel. The actuating means are arranged to activate a prize delivering machinery for delivering an appropriate prize for the player. If the player fails to pass the token through one of the actuating means, and the token passes between or past them, the player does not win any prize but loses the stake by which he initiated the game.
Such game playing devices include conventional slot machines. Finnish Patent Specification 37 712 discloses a mechanically operated slot machine in which the player launches a coin which moves within the play panel, whereas Finnish Patent Specification 63 123 discloses an electronically operated slot machine which does not require a coin as a stake but coins moving within the play panel are used in the game. In these game playing devices, the actuating means of the game playing apparatus are grouped in the play panel with mutual spacing so that a coin launched into the play panel drops down into receiving means either through one of the actuating means or between two adjacent actuating means
In game playing devices of this type, the game ends after the token has traversed the play area formed by the actuating means. In some game playing devices, it is possible to vary the amount to be won or give bonuses depending, e.g. on the number of the playing rounds and/or the passing of the token through one or more predetermined actuating means in order to inveigle the player to continue the game. In all game playing devices, the amount to be won as such as well as the possible extra prizes and bonuses are decided after the token has passed through the actuating means or past it.
The object of the present invention is to provide a game playing device which avoids the above-described drawback and which makes the playing more varied and more interesting. This object is achieved by means of a game playing device according to the invention, which is characterized in that the additional game playing apparatus operable by tokens is provided with additional actuating means disposed in the area of movement of the play panel, said additional actuating means detecting the passing of tokens therethrough in the area of movement and controlling the operation of the additional game playing apparatus.
The invention is based on the idea that after the token has traversed the play area formed by the actuating means of the primary game playing apparatus, that is, after it has performed its primary playing function, and has influenced the outcome of the game, that is, whether a prize is to be paid out or not, it is further used for starting the additional game playing apparatus under certain circumstances. In this way, it is possible to offer the player still another opportunity of winning a prize, e.g., to reward a good player or to give consolation to a poor player. As a consequence, the game playing device is more interesting, because at best a single token launched into the play panel may be able to participate in two games in succession. The additional game playing apparatus may be of quite another type than the primary game playing apparatus.
In the following, the invention will be described in greater detail with reference to the attached drawings, wherein
FIG. 1 is a schematical front view of one embodiment of a game playing device according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a schem
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Chiu Raleigh W.
Grieb William H.
Raha-Automaarriyhdistys
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