Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-12
2010-12-07
Hotaling, John M (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
C463S007000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07846015
ABSTRACT:
A gaming device, wherein a player's skill at an action or event determines the player's success or failure in the round. The game is readily adaptable to becoming a pseudo-skill game that would be required in most gaming jurisdictions. In one pseudo-skill embodiment, the skill game is converted to a game employing skill, but which is controlled by a set number of successful outcomes. That is, the player keeps playing until the player's skill produces the set number of successful outcomes. In another pseudo-skill embodiment, the game only appears to the player as involving skill. Instead, the gaming device randomly determines when and how many times to produce a successful outcome and increase the player's award.
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