Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
Patent
1997-07-22
1999-08-31
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Credit/debit monitoring or manipulation
463 17, 463 26, 463 42, 2731382, 273139, A63F 306
Patent
active
059446064
ABSTRACT:
A pull-tab gaming set, a progressive pull-tab gaming system and a method of operating a progressive pull-tab game. The gaming set includes a plurality of pull-tab cards, each card having a front portion, a back portion and a selectively revealable gaming section. The gaming section contains indicia of a redemption value of the card which is unascertainable until the gaming section is revealed. There are preferably at least three classes of pull-tab cards in the gaming set in the form of winners having indicia of a fixed non-zero value, losers having indicia of a zero value and at least one jackpot card with indicia of an undetermined total value. The progressive pull-tab card game system includes a pull-tab dispensing unit, configured to dispense pull-tab cards, a jackpot display, and a control system operatively connected to the dispensing unit to monitor the quantity of pull-tab cards dispensed. The control system is configured to compute a jackpot value dependent on that quantity and operatively connected to the jackpot display to cause it to display the computed jackpot value as pull-tab cards are dispensed.
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Layno Benjamin H.
ZDI Gaming, Inc.
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