Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-19
2005-04-19
O'Neill, Michael (Department: 3713)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
C463S025000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06881146
ABSTRACT:
A game of chance is played on a gaming machine controlled by a processor in response to a wager. The game includes an array of locations displayed on a video display and individually selectable by a player and the processor. The player and the processor make alternating selections of unoccupied ones of the locations in the array for placement of respective first and second symbol types. The probability of using a winning strategy for the selections by the processor increases with successive ones of the selections by the processor so that the processor appears to become more intelligent as the game progresses. A payout is awarded to the player based on an outcome of the game.
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Anderson Peter R.
Flint John D.
Frohm Erica A.
Giobbi John J.
Joshi Shridhar P.
Jenkens & Gilchrist
O'Neill Michael
WMS Gaming Inc.
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