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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8382579 | Card for use with a game apparatus The present invention relates to a card stack reader, a card thereof, a card case, a method for manufacturing the card, a game machine using the same, and a computer-readable storage medium on which a game program is recorded. The card stack reader comprises an imag... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8337296 | Method and apparatus for using upstream communication in a card shuffler A tray, serving as a transaction drawer, optimally fitted to X-ray inspection equipment for ease and efficiency of the operation. Yet, easy to handle by the operator and stackable for storage and having a test wedge to verify read outs by the X-ray machine, made out... | 12/25/2012 |
| 8333652 | Intelligent casino gaming table and systems thereof A technique is disclosed for facilitating play of a casino table game at a casino gaming table system which includes a casino gaming table and at least one handheld device. At least a portion of operations or activities relating to the casino game may be performed a... | 12/18/2012 |
| 8323097 | Non-transitive gaming elements and gaming methods Non-transitive gaming elements, including a first, a second and a third one or more gaming elements, respectively, wherein the second provides an advantage represented by higher scores, on average, as compared with the scores of the first, the third provides an adva... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8323096 | Method of providing a supplemental bingo game Systems and methods for providing a supplemental bingo game and produce supplemental bingo cards for use in a supplemental bingo game that can provide simultaneous winners. The bingo cards have a predetermined number of rows and columns forming a grid with a plurali... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8313369 | Outcome determination method for gaming device Embodiments of this concept are directed to a method of operating a gaming device to determine game outcomes by using a range of game numbers for winning game outcomes. That is, the gaming device includes a range of numbers associated with a generic winning outcome ... | 11/20/2012 |
| 8262462 | Systems and methods for facilitating participation in card games A gaming system for facilitating participation in a card game by a player located remotely from a dealer of the card game is disclosed. The gaming system may include a dealer system, which may include a scanner for capturing electronic information representing a rem... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8262461 | Configuration for a hybrid game A process generates, with a wager slip generation apparatus, a plurality of wager slips corresponding to a hybrid game such that each wager slip indicates a plurality of parallel matrices that each has a set of corresponding parallel matrix specific numbers. Further... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8257166 | Dice gaming machine The dice gaming machine accepts a bet on a bet area and a bet on an intermediate area between/among a plurality of bet areas. After ending the bet acceptance, it starts rolling dice. After the rolling of the dice has been stopped, the dice gaming machine identifies ... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8246446 | Method for mapping possible outcomes of a random event to concurrent dissimilar wagering games of chance The subject invention comprises a method and apparatus for which, from a single random event such as a spin of a roulette wheel or a roll of dice, a casino provides many concurrent games of chance. By mapping sets of randomization results (such as the results from r... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8235800 | System and method for substantially removing chance from a mixed contest of chance and skill The system and methods of the present application comprise one or more computers for substantially removing the element of chance in a contest that would normally be on whose outcome would be determined by a mixture of chance and skill. The system comprises one or m... | 08/07/2012 |
| 8231454 | Gaming system and method providing a primary game with accumulated secondary game elements One embodiment provides a Blackjack game where one or more players play against a dealer. The Blackjack game employs a designated set of cards, which includes one or more designated decks of cards. In addition to standard card symbols of rank and suit, each card in ... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8216056 | Card picks for progressive prize In various embodiments, players around the casino may predict cards to be dealt in a game of blackjack. ... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8216057 | Gaming machine that prevents game from continuing without dice position and dots changing A gaming machine receives capturing data from an infrared camera, determines a position, classification, and number of dots of dice based on the capturing data thus received, stores the position, classification, and number of dots thus determined in RAM for each gam... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8210924 | Dice with RFID tags and dice recognizing system for recognizing dice with RFID tags This invention discloses a dice with RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags and a dice recognizing system for recognizing dice with RFID tags. The dice with RFID tags comprises at least a dice body and a plurality of RFID tags. The dice body is a regular polyhed... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8210923 | Dice gaming machine A dice gaming machine executes a dice game using a plurality of dice. Gaming values are bet with respect to bet areas making up a betting board. Each bet area is associated with a winning condition based on the spots on the dice and a payout magnification ratio. The... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8172670 | Configuration for a supplemental game A process generates, with a prize category display module, a display that indicates (i) a first prize and a second prize for a primary game and (ii) a supplemental game prize, the first prize being won by a player that provides a first wager and has a match between ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8157640 | Swarming behavior in wagering game machines Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to present a wagering game upon which monetary value may be wagered; to present an initial image including a subset of a swarm in space representing a portion of the wagering game; and to determine the actual outcome of th... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147318 | Roll 21 game A Roll 21 game is described. In one implementation, an example game method for one or more players includes accepting a bet from each of the one or more players, and selecting one of the players to be the shooter to roll two dice for all the players. Each six-sided ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142276 | Method and system of gaming A method and system of gaming. A game has three tiers including a primary game, bonus game and secondary bonus game. The primary game involves two player cards and a sum value thereof. The bonus game involves a combination of the two player cards and three bonus car... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8113944 | Game of chance A game of chance includes receiving a stake corresponding to a target game-item from a player. In each phase of the game, a random integer is selected and a game-item corresponding to that integer is removed from play. If the target game-item is removed from play, t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113945 | Playing method of card game and game machine A method of playing card games, according to the present invention, includes the steps of: (a) accepting participation of players; (b) determining banker's cards and players' cards, the players' cards being dealt to the players having accepted participation, from a ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8100755 | Method, apparatus, and program product for distributing random number generation on a gaming network Methods, apparatus, and program products are disclosed for providing distributed RNG calculation capability. Generally, gaming machines cooperate on a gaming network to calculate a result for a RNG algorithm. A preferred system uses peer machines to perform partial ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100754 | Gaming system having multi-player wheel bonus game and characteristic selection In an embodiment, a gaming system includes a multi-player wheel game. The game includes a wheel having a plurality of sections. Each of the sections is associated with an award symbol. Each of the sections is also associated with a characteristic independent of the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8062120 | Dynamic card system and method A dynamic entertainment playing card having a flexible electronic display and a processor is configured to change state during a card game based on input received by the card during the card game and applied to a set of game rules by the processor. The card display ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8047912 | Gaming machine accepting side bet and control method thereof A gaming machine a controller programmed to execute the processing of accepting from an input device an input indicating placement of a normal BET, accepting from the input device an input indicating placement of a side BET, rolling and stopping a plurality of dice ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8033909 | Random selection program for an optical disc and related method A random selection program stored on an optical disc, which is played on an electronic device. The electronic device is coupled to an audio/visual output device. The electronic device includes a random number generator. The random selection program includes a random... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8029356 | Non-transitive wagering game Disclosed is a non-transitive casino game which utilizes a group of non-transitive gaming devices, One embodiment uses dice. Accordingly, each pair of dice has advantage over one other pair of non-transitive dice in the group. Each pair of dice has a different color... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8016662 | Game-winner selection based on verifiable event outcomes A gaming system includes a game server and a client device. The game server accepts the publicly-verifiable outcome of a non-deterministic event as an input. The game server creates a seed from the outcome and inputs the seed into a random number generator to genera... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016663 | Method, apparatus and article for random sequence generation and playing card distribution A method, apparatus and article generates a pseudo-random playing card sequence and distributes playing cards according the pseudo-random playing card sequence. For example, the method, apparatus and article generates a pseudo-random playing card sequence and prints... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7997977 | Card gaming machine and card game playing method A card gaming machine determines a dealer's hand and a player's hand for each terminal and specifies a remaining card group. The player's hand and the dealer's hand are compared for winning/losing judgment, and a prize based on the judgment result is awarded. If a s... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7918727 | Live event interactive game and method of delivery The disclosure describes a computer-implemented method of providing an event related game. The method includes receiving event data associated with a media broadcast at a computer, generating a printable game set, and providing the printable game set in an electroni... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7914373 | Gaming device having a game with a moving digit generated outcome A gaming device including a game having a plurality of selections. The player sequentially picks masked selections. The picked selections each yield a number or a terminator. If a number is revealed, the number is placed in a position or digit of an outcome or award... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7909692 | Apparatus for pre-determined game outcomes A remote gaming system and method provides for portable memory devices having predetermined game play outcomes for play on PGDs. The portable memory device having a memory to store at least one predetermined game play outcome for a wager-based game, a processor coup... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7892087 | Authentication of game results A gaming system includes a game server and a client server. The client server requests random numeric outcomes from the game server and supplies various state and game information. The game server generates one or more random numeric outcomes. The game server commun... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7815505 | Method for representing a game as a unique number Methods and apparatus for representing game arrangements by a single number, typically an integer, are described. These game arrangements can be applied to most any game including essentially all games played on gaming machines. Conversions can be made between symbo... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7803045 | Wagering game with communication feature for special wagers A communication feature or a plurality of communication features allows a player to know that he or she has selected a special event to be conducted in the wagering game. Generally, the player must meet certain criteria (e.g., play the maximum number of paylines) or... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7789754 | Card game based on results from a sporting event One or more inputs, such as one or more cards from a deck of cards, to a card game are determined from one or more event results from a sporting event. A result of the card game is based at least on the one or more determined inputs. ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7775875 | Gaming methods and systems Disclosed are central determination methods and systems in which pools and sub-pools of outcomes can be distributed among various units of the central determination system. The methods and systems are applicable to Class II and, in some implementations, Class III ga... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7771270 | Gaming system having multiple gaming devices that share a multi-outcome display A gaming device system in which a plurality of gaming devices are linked by a common bonus event is provided. In one embodiment, the linked gaming device system includes a shared symbol generation display that is positioned adjacent to each of a plurality of associa... | 08/10/2010 |
