Amusement devices: games – Board games – pieces – or boards therefor
Reexamination Certificate
1998-11-09
2001-02-06
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Board games, pieces, or boards therefor
C273S243000, C273S273000, C273S138100, C473S588000, C473S589000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06182965
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to games involving chance selection of colors, numbers and the like. More specifically, the present invention relates to games utilizing a plurality of circular disks or rings, each disk or ring having a different color, number or other indicia affixed, printed or otherwise incorporated onto each of its two flat sides and which disks or rings may be spun by hand to fall with one or the other of their two flat sides facing upward and showing the color, number or other indicia from which to determine score or playing action.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A number of spinning toys are known in the prior art, such as tops, where the object is to keep the top rotating around its axis, and hula hoops, which spin concentrically around a person's body. Games of chance are also known where rolling or throwing dice and spinning wheels or pointers are used.
Monson, U.S. Pat. Nos. 1,571,901, 1,587,127, 1,595,611, and 1,610,530, issued Feb. 2, 1926, Jun. 1, 1926, Aug. 10, 1926, and Dec. 14, 1926, respectively, each describe a game of chance involving a disk which is held perpendicular to the base on which it rests and is spun by hand. This disk is thickest at its center with thinner edges, these edges being segmented into areas which provide resting places. As the disk drops, it comes to rest on a section of the disk which is marked with particular indicia. This disk depends on its own shape for a random selection of indicia.
Brotz, U.S. Pat. No. 5,524,896, issued Jun. 11, 1996, discloses a game of chance involving spinning a flat ring until it drops. The ring has a central aperture containing cross hairs through which, when the ring has fallen, the player observes indicia on the board underneath the cross hairs. Brotz does not teach or suggest placing indicia on the ring itself and using the position of the ring i.e., one side versus the other) as an indicator of the chance outcome.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention utilizes a ring or rings which have flat sides displaying differing indicia on their fronts and backs. The ring or rings may be spun until they fall on one side or the other, with the upward side of each ring or rings indicating chance outcomes. The chance outcome of the spinning rings may be connected with playing cards or other sets of colors, numbers, and the like, thus offering both changeable ranges of difficulty and the increased complication and play value provided by such external indicia. When a plurality of spinning rings is used, additional combinations of chance outcomes may be produced, which combinations themselves may call into play external indicia and may also denote playing action.
It is an object of the present invention to provide games in which the players take turns spinning by hand a plurality of disks or rings on a surface, which disks or rings each have two flat sides, (i.e., a front and a back).
It is a further object of the present invention to provide games of chance in which the players spin disks or rings which have differing indicia on their two flat sides, so that there exists a 50/50 chance of either front or back indicia facing upward as the rings fall.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide competitive ring-spinning games through keeping score from upward-facing colors, numbers or other indicia on the fallen disks or rings.
It is yet a further object of the present invention to provide ring-spinning games in which playing cards, playing boards or other sets of indicia may be brought into play by particular indicia displayed on the fallen disks or rings, these other sets of indicia providing pre-game opportunities to select range of difficulty and providing enhanced entertainment value.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide ring-spinning games in which a plurality of the spinning rings may provide combinations of indicia among the fallen rings, combinations which may bring into play external indicia or which may denote playing action.
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Escott Charles R.
Escott Esther R.
Bell Robert P.
Layno Benjamin H.
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