Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Patent
1997-07-24
2000-03-21
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
2731382, 463 25, A63F 924
Patent
active
060396490
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A money-operated entertainment machine has a game device comprising a plurality of display elements that indicate individual wins and can be illuminated, and a computer-controlled control unit for controlling the course of the game.
Entertainment machines of this type are known in widely-varying embodiments. For example, DE 36 38 100 A1 discloses a coin-operated, roulette-type game machine that indicates a win. The machine has a roulette wheel comprising number fields, on which a spinning ball can be simulated as a point of light, and a table provided with key fields representing the numbers of the roulette wheel for selecting a winning number or group of winning numbers. Associated with the individual number fields are lamps that illuminate the number fields, in the form of a point of light, consecutively in the circumferential direction during the indication of a win to simulate the action of a roulette game. When the illumination of the roulette table ceases, as dictated by chance, one number field is illuminated, resulting in a win in the event that the number coincides with the associated, selected key field of the table.
Game machines provided with a symbol game device are also known; these typically have three rotating bodies configured as rollers, disks or flip-card carousels. On the top side, which is visible from the outside through viewing windows, the rotating bodies are provided with symbols. The rotating bodies are stopped consecutively and, after all of the bodies have come to a stop, the symbol combination displayed in the viewing windows indicates a win or loss. Instead of rotating bodies, light fields provided with symbols can also be used, with a rotating light point being associated with each field. In this case, the light fields marked by the light points at the end of the game determine a win or loss.
Moreover, known entertainment machines that have a symbol game device frequently have a risk game device configured as an additional-win game device, which can be actuated by keystrokes or computer control when a win has already been attained in the symbol game device. A risk scale whose display elements indicate different winning values visually highlights the attained win and the attainable win. A chance generator provided in the entertainment machine determines whether the win that has already been attained will be lost or increased. If the win is increased, it is displayed again as an attained win, and the win that can now be attained is visually highlighted again. If the chance generator decides that the win will be lost, a total-loss display element associated with the risk scale is illuminated, and a new game can begin.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the invention to make the game action more interesting in a game machine of the type mentioned at the outset, thus increasing the player's entertainment and the appeal of the game through a greater variety of the game action.
In accordance with the invention, this object is accomplished in that the game device is configured as a risk game device that increases a monetary amount, or a portion or multiple thereof, when the risk of a loss exists.
This measure makes the game action considerably more interesting, because the player now has the option of increasing a current monetary amount directly, step-by-step, when a monetary amount or an already-attained win is at risk of loss. The player is therefore no longer instructed in entering the risk game through the attainment of certain symbol combinations in the symbol game device, as in the known entertainment machines. The events occurring in the risk game that begins immediately after the actuation of the monetary amount make the game tremendously appealing, and continuously increase the player's tension. The result is a fast-paced, exciting game that provides high-quality entertainment and variable chances of winning. If a portion or a multiple of the monetary amount is played, the potential win is correspondingly decreased or increased.
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Layno Benjamin H.
NSM Aktiengesellschaft
Spencer George H.
Voorhees Catherine M.
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