Amusement devices: games – Chance devices – Dice
Patent
1997-09-29
1999-07-06
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Chance devices
Dice
A63F 904
Patent
active
059188812
ABSTRACT:
The invention sets forth an improved procedure and facile supporting apparatus, enabling players in a game for example, to make unbias determination by sole virtue of chanch, (as a random pointer-device employed in place of a traditional spinner), as to whom shall be the player selected for virtually any imaginable purpose. The apparatus is a platonic-solid,--that is, having equal faces, equal vertices, equal dihedral-angles between the faces. This regular polyhedron, can be any type of 3-dimensional shape having six or more equally shaped preferably planar facets; such as for example a sextahedron(6-sides), an octahedron(8-sides), a decahedron(10-sides), a icosahedron (20-sides); --yet most preferably, a dodecahedron(12-sides) owing to it's compromise of fascet transitions causing the die to roll sufficiently as to be uncontrollable (versus a tetrahedron, which equilateral 4-sides really don't want to tumble-roll much at all), yet not so close to a sphere as a tricontahedron which tends to roll on excessively. The notion being to provide arrow-indicia upon the different facets which are arranged in various directions, whereby the aiming of the arrow unpredictably arriving at the apex-facet, or mesa, when the die stops tumbling determines who the selected player is.
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PTO/Disclosure Document: (Copy Attached) Serial-NR.: #416,725; Filed: Mar. 24, 1997.
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