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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360764 | Apportionment of pay out of casino game with escrow A method of a house apportionment of a bonus value is used to pay during play of a bonus game. Entry of the bonus game is achieved during play of an underlying game of chance. The method of house apportionment includes steps of awarding the player a portion of the b... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7297059 | Progressive gaming system and method having fractional progressive jackpot awards A method for paying a progressive jackpot in a wide area progressive system having a progressive controller linked to groups of gaming terminals. Each gaming terminal using software determines, based upon at least the broadcast current progressive jackpot amount and... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7284756 | Method for operating mechanical casino bonus game in the presence of mechanical bias A method for operating a mechanical casino bonus game to provide a constant player expected value for play of a mechanical casino bonus game in the presence of mechanical bias. When play of the bonus game commences, a bonus payoff is randomly assigned from a set of ... | 10/23/2007 |
| D548799 | Surface pattern for a casino table | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255645 | Equalizing different jackpot games with frequent pays Two-way communications between casino games and diverse master controllers using a universal game module there between allows routing event messages with standard protocols. The universal game module with a computer processor, circuitry, connection ports, interfaces... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247096 | Method for awarding a player responding to a hidden bonus game feature that interrupts casino game play During play of a casino game, in response to a wager, a hidden bonus feature unknown to the player occurs to interrupt game play. The occurrence of the hidden bonus feature may be at a random statistical frequency or other event. When the player inputs a correct res... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7226357 | Mechanical wheel casino game of chance having a free-motion internal indicator and method therefor A mechanical wheel casino game of chance using a freely moving internal indicator such as a ball within a housing to randomly move and bounce into one possible outcome segment in a set of possible outcome segments. The expected value is controlled through a combinat... | 06/05/2007 |
| D542858 | Surface pattern for a casino table | 05/15/2007 |
| 7217187 | Casino game and method having a hint feature During operation of a casino game, a hint feature is displayed with a displayed decision-making game round under control of a processor. A memory may store a plurality of decision-making game rounds. A hint contains response information for a player to increase the ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7192343 | Multi-reel, multi-line bonus game for a casino base game having game features and method therefor A method for operating two different bonus games in a casino game machine. The first bonus game is played when a first predetermined orientation of the bonus symbols occurs on a pay line. The bonus game has a meter and a path to a goal wherein the path has a number ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7172505 | Slot machine bonus initiated by plural qualifications A multi-stage method qualifies a player for a bonus game. If two stages are used, the first has the player aligning a combination including at least one trigger symbol. The second stage uses the trigger symbols, reel symbols, other secondary mathematically related e... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7086945 | Method for operating a casino game having a number of play paths A method for playing a game has the steps of establishing a plurality of paths, each of which have a plurality of squares including a start square, an end square, and a plurality of value squares. Randomly traversing the paths to afford the possibility of two or mor... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7070505 | Method for community event wagering A method and apparatus for wagering on a community event by a plurality of players. The apparatus includes a pay table ranking a preselected community event, a wagering place to accept individual wagers from each of the players on the occurrence of the preselected c... | 07/04/2006 |
