Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Patent
1996-10-16
1998-08-25
Harrison, Jessica
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
463 17, 463 42, A63F 306
Patent
active
057977941
ABSTRACT:
A method of playing a game of chance, and the game of chance, include a plurality of playstations, one of which is chosen by a player for entering a quantity of player symbols, e.g., numbers. A unique game symbol is assigned to each playstation of the plurality of playstations, the game symbol being chosen from a set of game symbols, e.g., numbers. A quantity of winning symbols is randomly selected from the set of game symbols. The player wins the game if a predetermined number of the player symbols match the winning symbols or if the game symbol assigned to the player's playstation is related to one of the winning symbols in a predetermined manner, e.g., if the game number assigned to the player's playstation matches one of the winning numbers or is numerically adjacent to one of the winning numbers.
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GTECH Corporation
Harrison Jessica
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