Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-21
2006-02-21
Brocketti, Julie (Department: 3713)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
C463S016000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07001273
ABSTRACT:
A gaming device including at least one displayed offer provided to a player, at least one input device for enabling the player to accept or reject each displayed offer provided to the player, and a hidden offer which the game does not reveal to the player during the acceptance or rejection of each of the provided displayed offers. The game provides and awards the hidden offer to the player if the player rejects each of the displayed offers. If the player accepts one of the provided displayed offers, the game awards the accepted offer to the player.
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