Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-31
2005-05-31
Harrison, Jessica J. (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
C463S012000, C463S013000, C273S292000, C273S274000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06899619
ABSTRACT:
The method of entertainment “Stos” is an adaptation for casinos, videogame machines and computers of the most popular game of chance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is also known as Bank Table, Shtoss and Pharaon. In a casino, the game takes place on a table on which there is a game field with suit-less cards and four suit cards: spades (img id="CUSTOM-CHARACTER-00001" he="3.13mm" wi="2.12mm" file="US06899619-20050531-P00900.TIF" alt="custom character" img-content="character" img-format="tif" ?), clubs (img id="CUSTOM-CHARACTER-00002" he="3.13mm" wi="2.46mm" file="US06899619-20050531-P00901.TIF" alt="custom character" img-content="character" img-format="tif" ?), diamonds (♦) and hearts (♥). The game generally uses one or several standard 52-card decks. The players bet that the card they select will be dealt out of the deck on an even interval. To do so, they place their chips on a suit-less card that they pick on the game field. They may also predict the suit of their card by placing a bet on one of the suit cards. After the cards are shuffled and cut, the dealer places the cards face down on the table and draws the cards in order, two at a time. All bets on a card are considered played as soon as the first matching card is dealt from the deck. The player loses if the card upon which he bet turns up in the odd column and he wins if it falls in the even one.
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Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery
Harrison Jessica J.
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