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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187075 | Gaming machine A gaming machine includes a gaming table, antennas and a control unit. The antennas are arranged to placement areas formed on the gaming table. The antennas are employed to determine whether or not at least one gaming medium is placed on any of the placement areas. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8182327 | Management of outcomes of games of chance A method and system is provided for managing the outcomes of games of chance while maintaining the game's integrity. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182328 | Method of lottery wagering on real-world events A method for lottery wagering on real-world events. One method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes selecting a set of variables, each variable representing a time-varying value capable of having a fixed value at a specified time. For each va... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8172662 | Gaming machine A gaming machine includes a roulette board where a game is performed continually, a plurality of player terminals that enables bet to be placed on the game performed in the roulette board, a control section that controls a predetermined amount of game value to be ad... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167702 | Prepaid wagering card A prepaid wagering card and a system and method for playing the lottery over a telephone line using the prepaid wagering card are provided. The prepaid wagering card includes information that makes it convenient to obtain the prepaid wagering card and use it to wage... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167701 | Systems and methods for lottery-style games Systems and methods for lottery-style games are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method may comprise: establishing a map-based game that is scheduled to have a number of lottery drawings associated with a plurality of grid units on a ma... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162738 | Lottery/online gaming bet administration system and method Embodiments of the disclosed technology provide a system and method for electronic lottery and or online gaming bet placement and management employing Radio Frequency Identification technology. The system and method both employ use of a plurality of passive RFID tag... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157636 | Game system, and game apparatus and management apparatus constituting the same A game system, and arcade game apparatus and management apparatus constituting the same are disclosed. In the game system, each game apparatus change at the same timing to a second mode in which a jackpot drawing is carried out in a state that a jackpot prize winnin... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157635 | Method and apparatus for providing player incentives A system and method is provided for incentivizing players to visit a gambling location. In one aspect, a qualified person is invited to play an electronic game which has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome. One aspect relates to accum... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152622 | Gaming system and method having controllably rotatable directing devices for use with a marker A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a first game region comprising a plurality of game portions, and a second game region contiguous with each of the game portions. The second game region comprises a plurality of directing devices, with each directing devic... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140385 | Promotional campaign award validation methods through a distributed computer network Code processing for promotional games and the like. In a preferred application, a lottery ticket holder who has purchased a lottery ticket is encouraged to access a designated Internet site by rewarding access thereat on the condition that information visibly suppor... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8128477 | Wagering game with simulated mechanical reels A gaming machine for playing a wagering game includes a housing having a display region, a curved transparent layer located in the display region, and a video display. The video display is located behind the transparent layer for projecting moving images onto the tr... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8118659 | Instant online lottery ticket for a linear prize and a position specific prize A process provides a first price category and a second price category in which an instant online lottery ticket can be purchased for an instant online lottery game. The first price category is distinct from the second price category. Further, the first price categor... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118658 | Rolling raffle game A game of chance add-on raffle game, independent base game and a system for funding the raffle game prize payout is provided. For a premium wager, an add-on raffle game is offered to be added to a state on-line lottery game play at the time of the initial base game ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8105148 | Amusement game using vertical rotating wheel This invention is directed to an amusement device consisting of a vertically oriented hollow wheel that is rotated at a constant rate and that has a series of cavities provided along the inner surface of the outer wheel rim. The wheel has front and rear enclosures t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100749 | System and method for conducting and playing a supplemental lottery game A system and method is provided by which players participating in a primary lottery drawing may elect to participate in a second, or derivative lottery drawing (a “meta-game”). In one embodiment, a meta-game is conducted by first registering a plurality of lotte... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8092294 | Apparatus and method for facilitating game play in an electronic lottery game network At least one pool of game play records is stored at a central processing system. Each game play record includes a record index selected from a set of unique index values, each associated with a different result type. A record index associated with a particular game ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092293 | Method and apparatus for tracking play at a roulette table A wagering monitoring system configured to detect player wagers at a roulette table. A table having antennas associated with the various wagering areas is provided for the players. A reader connects to each antenna to thereby communicate via the antenna with tokens ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8087989 | Apparatus for making a sought-after choice more likely to be obtained by a participant from a group of choices The present invention provides mathematical logic in determining the likelihood of the sought-after choice from among a group of choices by dividing the group of choices in two groups to create a small group. Then, mandatory selection from the large group of choices... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087988 | Personal gaming device and method of presenting a game A mobile game device for selective display of one or more pre-purchased games of chance thereon. The game device includes a removable communication interface adapted to communicate with a central gaming system to selectively receive gaming data controlling the play ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8075385 | Card selection game with feature A gaming machine and method are disclosed. A selected symbol is displayed in a non-revealed manner, for example on a display, a player having nominated at least one characteristic of the symbol. If the selected symbol is revealed to have the nominated characteristic... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8066562 | Method of simulating a traditional roulette game experience A method of simulating a traditional casino roulette game experience using a specially designed deck of thirty eight (38) playing cards to determine a winning number rather than via a spin of the roulette wheel. The deck includes one card for each single unique numb... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062116 | Gaming at cash register In various embodiments, a method may include receiving an indication of a price of an item to be purchased by a person from a merchant, receiving an indication of an amount tendered by the person, determining an amount of change due to the person based on the price ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8043154 | Lottery ticket security method In a method for manufacturing instant lottery tickets where book numbers and ticket numbers are printed on the tickets utilizing a dual security process such that the book numbers are shuffled in each pool before the tickets are printed to break the link between the... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8038521 | Card shuffling apparatus with automatic card size calibration during shuffling A device for automatically calibrating for card size during card handling is disclosed. The device includes a card receiving area, a card stacking area and a card moving system for moving cards from the card receiving area to the card stacking area. An elevator loca... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038520 | Methods and systems for determining and selling wagering game outcomes to be viewed remotely In accordance with some embodiments, a plurality of outcomes are generated and used to create a video presentation of representative outcomes. The video presentation is recorded onto a tangible medium (e.g., DVD or CD-ROM) or otherwise provided to a player (e.g., pl... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033905 | Preprinted lottery tickets using a player activated electronic validation machine A lottery game played on an electronic game machine using a pre-printed lottery ticket is disclosed. The lottery ticket is embedded with game and prize information that can be read by the game machine. After inserting the lottery ticket into the game machine, the pl... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8029351 | Gaming machine including a wheel and a processor to specify a pocket of the wheel As a result of lottery using the roulette device 3, if the ball 27 enters in the bonus pocket 24 among the pockets formed on the wheel 22, the special bonus game using the WIN lamp 11 occurs and all credits betted to each station | 10/04/2011 |
| 8016659 | Electronic gaming machines with different player or dealer assigned virtual card stacks or other symbol sets A gaming apparatus and methods which include multiple virtual stacks of symbols, such as cards, numbers, picture symbols or other symbols. In one form each player has an individual virtual stack and the dealer has one stack. In another form each player has one stack... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016660 | Systems and methods for conducting a sweepstakes in a gaming environment Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for sweepstakes awards in a gaming environment. Certain embodiments provide a method including accumulating sweepstakes entries for a player based on at least one sweepstakes entry criterion and randomly selecting a wi... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8007356 | Method for conducting a lottery A method of conducting a lottery includes registering a player with one or more losing tickets for one or more opportunities to enter one or more additional lotteries while collecting identifying information about the registered player. Allocating points to the regi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8007355 | Electronic roulette-type betting device having different odds at different points in time An electronic roulette-type betting device and method is disclosed. The device comprises a display unit and an associated display control unit for the graphic reproduction of a roulette bowl device together with a rotating ball, at least one input unit for inputting... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8002622 | Method of playing multi-bet printed tickets, including instant game tickets Preprinted game tickets, such as instant game lottery tickets, are dispensed from a vending machine. Instead of having a fixed cost and a fixed prize amount, the game tickets may be purchased at different bet levels and credit values, both of which change the cost a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7988547 | Jackpot wagering with supplementary draw A jackpot wagering system includes a number of player terminals, a random event generator and an accumulation facility. Each player terminal is operable by a respective player to place a corresponding wager on one or more different turns of a game of chance, while t... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7988548 | Gaming apparatus and playing method thereof For a number of execution times of roulette game in a roulette game machine (1), if the number of land-in times at a prescribed numbered pocket (23) has become equal to or greater than a reference time number, then from among a plurality of control dat... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7985129 | Co-located lottery game for a gaming device A lottery system/electronic gaming device interface and gambling game includes at least one detection device operative to detect selected event occurrences of an electronic gaming device and output event occurrence signals upon detection of an event or series of eve... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7980941 | Gaming apparatus and playing method thereof A gaming apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a roulette wheel including a plurality of pockets associated with respective numbers in advance; a memory for storing a plurality of control data for controlling the gaming apparatus so as to provide a... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7980938 | Wagering game with video lottery bonus game System and method are disclosed for operating a gaming terminal. The system and method of the invention involves using a real-life video of a lottery drawing to conduct a wagering game on the gaming terminal. The wagering game may be a basic game or it may be a bonu... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7980939 | Gaming apparatus and playing method thereof A gaming apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a roulette wheel including a plurality of pockets associated with respective numbers in advance; a memory for storing a plurality of control data for controlling the gaming apparatus so as to provide d... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7980937 | Lottery audit system In an instant lottery ticket system having a lottery administration host computer that includes a ticket validation file, security of the validation file is provided by an audit system that allows periodic audits of the validation file. Audit data, based on ticket d... | 07/19/2011 |
