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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162317 | Game machine including variable pattern display units A game machines has a back side display unit composed of reels for displaying back patterns, and a front side display unit composed of transparent EL panels for displaying overlapping patterns overlapping with the back patterns. The back side display unit and the fr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8152171 | Gaming device having a wheel-based game A gaming device including at least one wagering station and a rotor. The rotor supports a series of symbols arranged about a center. The rotor also supports a series of landings arranged adjacent to the series of symbols. In operation, at least one ball travels alon... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8118309 | Hard pass craps wager A wager for casino craps which allows a player to win when a come out shooter makes a hard point (e.g. rolls 2/2 or 3/3 or 4/4 or 5/5), and then the shooter makes the point (before the shooter rolls a seven) with the same hard point (e.g. 2/2 or 3/3 or 4/4 or 5/5). ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109516 | Method of and apparatus for gaming An otherwise conventional craps table is provided with one or more unique wagering opportunities each comprising odds which are more favorable to the craps player as compare with the odds associated with traditional craps wagers. Utilization of the wager opportuniti... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8074991 | Let me roll sic bo Let Me Roll Sic Bo is a dice game blended Sic Bo with traditional craps game. It is using three regular dice (cubes). Each die has six sides and different number of spots on it (from one to six). Each player will take a turn to shoot the dice follow the clockwise. P... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8011663 | Game of chance A method of playing a game of chance comprising the steps of defining a set of wagers on the outcome of a plurality of differentiable random events, said random events defining an aggregate event, defining a set of payout odds associated with said wagers, accepting ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7926810 | Roulette apparatus with ball-delivery system, and method A roulette apparatus enables and enhances roulette gaming. The roulette apparatus comprises a roulette wheel assembly, a ball-delivery tower, ball-conducting conduit, and disguised wheel monitoring equipment. The ball-delivery tower comprises a tower support portion... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926811 | Gaming machine accepting side bet and control method thereof A gaming machine of the present invention comprises: a controller programmed so as to execute the following processing of: (A) accepting from an input device an input indicating placement of a normal BET on outcome of dice; (B) accepting from the input device an inp... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7806407 | Game machine including variable pattern display units A game machines has a back side display unit composed of reels for displaying back patterns, and a front side display unit composed of transparent EL panels for displaying overlapping patterns overlapping with the back patterns. The back side display unit and the fr... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7780170 | East-west casino based upon chinese poker deck An East-West casino offers two or more gambling games in which at least one game involves a Feng Shui element of chance and the other involves either a game based upon a new Chinese Poker Deck of cards or a video slot machine having a carousel in which two or more w... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7758048 | Multiplayer game with strategic element A question and answer game includes more than one answer choice to each question and each answer choice has a strategic element with a risk/reward tradeoff. ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7758049 | Roulette with hi/low betting area An amusement apparatus comprising a roulette wheel (102), a hi/lo betting area (112), wherein, in use, the roulette wheel (102) is arranged to be spun and a winning number generated thereby, the hi/lo betting area (112) being arranged to ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7735831 | Facilitated gaming system and method with equalizing criteria for facilitator Systems and methods for playing a dealer-facilitated card game including use of a dealer-equalization criteria and a dealer-favored bias criteria. The game involves dealing a starting hand to at least one player and to the dealer, wherein each starting hand includes... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7735830 | Card game allowing redeals A wagering game that allows the player and/or the dealer a redeal. If the player doesn't like his or her hand, the player can discard the player's hand and receive a new set of cards. If the dealer doesn't like his or her hand, according to predetermined dealer crit... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731193 | Double dead man guts In a guts game variation, one or more players play against one another and a sole participant must beat two “dead man” hands to win. For example, each player bets the ante and is dealt a hand of two cards. Each player is then given the option to participate in t... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7726654 | Method of playing a card game The present invention preferably relates to a casino card game played with a standard fifty-two card deck. The game is divided into a bonus round and a challenge round. Each player places an ante and a bonus wager at the start of the game and must place a third wage... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7726653 | Method of playing a card game The present invention preferably relates to a casino card game played with a standard fifty-two card deck. The game is divided into a bonus round, progressive bonus round, and a challenge round. Each player places an ante and a bonus wager and, if desired, an option... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7722045 | Method of playing yangtze hold 'EM# and tibet high# poker games A method of playing a community card poker game in which two down cards are dealt to each player from a deck having suited cards, non-suited cards and a wild cards, followed by a betting round, then three community cards are dealt face up followed by a betting round... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7694971 | Roulette game apparatus and method A method for arranging indicia on a game surface and on an associated roulette wheel. Indicia indicating numbers from 1 through 60 are arranged on the game surface in ascending order with half of the numbers associated with a first color and half assoc... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7694970 | Game and game apparatus A game apparatus comprising a player display (105) adapted to provide a display representative of a collection of tokens (106,107,108,109,110) delivered to a player by a dealer and a dealer token (111), the apparatus further comprising a player ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7686305 | Craps game improvement A proposition bet for Craps referred to as a FIRE BET™. The method includes predetermining a schedule of a pay-out table, players placing FIRE BET wagers at respective player betting areas prior to a shooter's initial come out; accumulating points responsive to ou... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686306 | Variations in and relating to Roulette A method and apparatus of playing a variation of Roulette, permit a player to place a bet on the outcome of a spin of the Roulette wheel in combination with the outcome of one or more other random events. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7677571 | Game apparatus A game apparatus is disclosed. The game apparatus comprises a rotatable wheel having a display surface divided into fifty-four concentric areas including indicia of fifty-two standard playing cards and indicia of two joker playing cars with stopping pegs disposed be... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677572 | Pattern display device and game machine A game machines has a back side display unit composed of reels for displaying back patterns, and a front side display unit composed of transparent EL panels for displaying overlapping patterns overlapping with the back patterns. The back side display unit and the fr... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7669854 | Method of simulating a traditional craps game with barcoded cards and video display A method of simulating a traditional craps game experience using a specially designed deck of thirty six (36) playing cards to determine play rather than rolling dice. The deck of playing cards includes one card for each possible roll combination of a pair of dice. ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7661677 | Hard pass craps wager A wager for casino craps which allows a player to win when a come out shooter makes a hard point (e.g. rolls 2/2 or 3/3 or 4/4 or 5/5), and then the shooter makes the point (before the shooter rolls a seven) with the same hard point (e.g. 2/2 or 3/3 or 4/4 or 5/5). ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7654530 | Casino-type wagering game based on card color A source of symbols with two primary distinguishable characteristics is provided in a wagering environment. A player has wagering opportunities on a sequence of events, wagering on either of the primary distinguishable characteristics for each event in the sequence ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7651095 | Multiplayer trivia game A trivia game includes more than one answer choice to each question. The players generate each answer choice. ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7637503 | Roulette game apparatus with side bet game A roulette game including a board game surface and roulette wheel, wherein besides the traditional roulette wheel wagering opportunities, an additional novel wagering area is provided for additional “side betting.” That is, a side wagering area comprising ten in... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7637504 | Suits and ladders game A wagering game between a dealer and one or more players involving one or more decks of cards, a plurality of betting boards and player markers. Each betting board has four betting places corresponding to one of four card suits and two betting places corresponding t... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7614624 | Wild Viking roulette Disclosed is modified roulette game wherein a plurality of values are selected and analyzed during each round of play. A set of predetermined playing cards is used to determine values that determine the outcome of bets. The gaming method includes: dealing a pluralit... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7568701 | Card game A wagering game between a dealer and one or more players involving one or more decks of cards, a plurality of betting boards and player markers. Each betting board has four betting places, each place corresponding to one of four card suits, said betting places being... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7552927 | Poker-type card game and method therefor A poker-type game capable in which participants compete against a dealer in hands whose number of cards progressively increase. Play begins with two cards dealt to a dealer and two cards dealt to each player. Whoever has a superior two-card hand must place a wager i... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7540498 | Systems and methods for card games that simulate non-card casino table games Methods and systems for conducting gaming activities are disclosed. In one method, wagers are placed on a game and cards are dispensed. An indicia of a play card is used to determine an outcome of the game. A feature bet is included, wherein if the indicia of the pl... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7530572 | Active dealer version of blackjack This invention relates to a method of playing a modified version of blackjack wherein the dealer is an active rather than a passive participant. The dealer selects which of the two dealer initial cards to turn face-up for exposure to the other players. The dealer al... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7527265 | Dice game A method of dealing a card game is taught wherein cards are used in place of dice. The cards are dealt to locations on a table and a randomizing event is used to select from one or more of the dealt cards which appear on a gaming table. To allow the player to exerci... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7523941 | Active dealer version of blackjack This invention relates to a method of playing a modified version of blackjack wherein the dealer is an active rather than a passive participant. The dealer selects which of the two dealer initial cards to turn face-up for exposure to the other players. The dealer al... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7516959 | Method and apparatus for tournament betting The method of betting on participants in a tournament comprises creating at least two teams of at least one participating player playing in the tournament, the tournament having a series of at least two casino games in which the participating players will play; asso... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7513503 | Method for playing modified game of poker A method of playing a modified poker game includes the steps of providing a deck of playing cards and predetermining minimum wagers for each round of play. Players are dealt four hole cards and a community of four cards is established, 3 with their faces disposed to... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7506873 | Method for playing poker The novel video draw poker game disclosed utilizes a nine position card matrix in which two through four cards are initially dealt and displayed in one row at the start of game play. Pay lines pass through the nine positions. The player selects and holds ones of the... | 03/24/2009 |
