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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| 8182338 | Wagering game with multiplier for progressive fund pool A method for playing wagering games at which players are eligible for a progressive game includes, responsive to receiving wager inputs from players, conducting wagering games in which players are eligible to win a progressive game. The method includes funding the p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177636 | Gaming system having a plurality of gaming machines linked by network and control method thereof According to a gaming system of the present invention, the control device cumulatively counts a part of the number of game media betted in each of the gaming machines as a cumulative value. Further, when the cumulative value reaches a predetermined value, a common g... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8157645 | System and method for providing a bonus with multiple remote inputs An apparatus for providing a bonus system with remote inputs devices, where each remote device may have a purpose independent of the bonus machine. A bonus machine having a game of skill, a bonus, and a processor receives a message indicating the occurrence of an ev... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157646 | Gaming system and method for providing a progressive award multiple times before resetting the displayed value of the provided progressive award In various embodiments, the gaming system and method disclosed herein maintains a progressive award that is associated with a plurality of different progressive award trigger values or progressive award hit values. In such embodiments, the displayed value of the pro... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152632 | Gaming machine for use in a system with a common bonus feature A gaming machine system includes a system controller. A plurality of gaming machines are linked to the system controller. Each gaming machine has a first display and a game controller arranged to control images of symbols displayed on the first display, the game con... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8137188 | Server based gaming system having multiple progressive awards A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The central server includes a plurality of progressive modules. Each progressive module maintains one or more progressive awards and is associated with zero, one or more of the gami... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8128491 | Server based gaming system having multiple progressive awards A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The central server includes a plurality of progressive modules. Each progressive module maintains one or more progressive awards and is associated with zero, one or more of the gami... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128492 | Server based gaming system having multiple progressive awards A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The central server includes a plurality of progressive modules. Each progressive module maintains one or more progressive awards and is associated with zero, one or more of the gami... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8118669 | System and method for providing poker player tracking and bonus events A gaming system having a gaming table and including a progressive jackpot funded by a portion of the house rake of a card game played at the gaming table. The gaming system includes a tracking system capable of identifying and tracking cards dealt and wagers placed ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109827 | Multivendor progressive gaming system A method of facilitating the play of a progressive game and a system for facilitating the play of a progressive game are disclosed. The method may include accruing a portion of wagers to a multi-vendor progressive prize fund, tracking the total amount accrued to the... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8096874 | Gaming system and method having progressive awards with meter increase events A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The gaming system includes at least one and preferably a plurality of progressive awards which are each associated with a supplemental fund or pool. If the gaming system determines ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8092302 | Gaming system, gaming device and method providing tiered progressive bonusing system The gaming system and method disclosed herein provides a plurality of players with an opportunity to win a plurality of progressive awards maintained by the gaming system. The gaming system accumulates a quantity of progressive event points for each player playing a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8070597 | Gaming device and method having multiple progressive award levels and a secondary game for advancing through the progressive award levels A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The gaming system includes a plurality of different types of progressive awards adapted to be provided to one or more players of the gaming machines in the gaming system. In one emb... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8057301 | Game feature associated with an enhancement of a progressive prize Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems and programs for conducting a feature in relation with a wagering game. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a first wager value and a second wager value; establishing evaluation conditions and... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8052523 | Gaming system A gaming system comprising: a gaming machine and a server capable of communicating with the gaming machine is provided. The gaming machine comprises a receiving unit for receiving a game medium. The server comprises a plurality of first storage devices for storing a... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052524 | Gaming system having a plurality of gaming machines linked by network and control method thereof A gaming system of the present invention comprises: a plurality of gaming machines; and a control device including a memory device and a processor; wherein the memory device is capable of storing a plurality of types of winning-machine determination programs for det... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7997983 | Slot machine game having a plurality of ways to issue a percentage of a progressive award based upon any wager level (“percentage progressive”) A slot machine issues a percentage of one or more progressive awards based upon any wager level (“Percentage Progressive”). In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the Percentage Progressive concept operates as follows: The game displays the total pr... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7997981 | Universal casino bonusing systems and methods Methods and systems for providing a universal bonus within a gaming environment are disclosed. Such systems include universal bonuses that are made available to patrons of both gaming machines and other non-gaming machine gaming venues, such as gaming tables. System... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7997982 | Lottery game having an independent raffle prize A lottery game with a capped jackpot prize and increasing raffle prize is provided. The lottery game is set with an initial jackpot prize. If there is no jackpot winner for the lottery game for a drawing, the jackpot is increased until the jackpot is at least equal ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7980947 | Flexible determination of progressive awards The present invention provides novel method and devices for implementing progressive systems on networked gaming machines and associated network devices. Some preferred implementations of the invention allow a target progressive pool size to be selected and apply pa... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7972209 | Gaming system having progressive tournaments and weighting A gaming system that provides game play in a tournament in exchange for monetary input per game played is disclosed. The gaming system includes a game server, a plurality of game units connected to the game server via a network, and a progressive tournament controll... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7963847 | Gaming system having multiple gaming machines which provide bonus awards A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines, gaming tables, hand held gaming devices and/or community gaming displays. The central server monitors wagers placed on any games played. Based at least in part on the wagers placed,... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963846 | Gaming machine having multiple level progressive feature with player controlled outcome A new type of progressive game can be used in conjunction with wagering games. A gaming terminal is capable of playing a progressive game that is triggered during or after the typical wagering game that is played at the gaming terminal. The gaming terminal includes ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963848 | Gaming machine paying out cumulatively accumulated game media and control method thereof A gaming machine comprising a controller programmed to execute the processing of rolling and stopping the plurality of dice in the gaming portion, cumulatively accumulating, in a case where a normal BET has not been placed on the outcomes of dice satisfying any of p... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959509 | Multi-player bingo game with optional progressive jackpot wager The invention is directed to methods and gaming units for conducting a wagering game and an associated progressive jackpot, wherein each player has a unique game array of game indicia for the occurrence of the wagering game and individual game indicia are sequential... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7942737 | Gaming device having a game with multiple selections and progressive game incrementation A gaming device having a game involving a plurality of selections and at least one progressive game increment associated with at least one of the selections. The gaming device has a progressive award which is displayable if the player picks a selection associated wi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7931532 | Randomly awarded progressive jackpots The invention is a method and a device for adding a bonus prize component to wagering games such as those played in gambling casinos. A player obtaining a predetermined combination in the underlying game wins the bonus prize. This might be a predetermined combinatio... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7887415 | Random payout while maintaining the progressive prize pool at the predetermined average pool size A method of providing a game for a gaming device using random payout from a prize pool, the game including a plurality of possible game outcomes, is provided. The method comprises: receiving, at the gaming device, a wager amount; receiving an input to initiate game ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7883410 | System and method for establishing a progressive jackpot award System and method establish a progressive jackpot award associated with a machine useable by a user. The user has a user account stored in a computer connected to the machine. The computer includes a database for storing user account data including bonus points asso... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7874915 | Wagering game providing free game play as a progressive award A wagering game is comprised of a basic game and a progressive award. The progressive award increases based on wager inputs received from players playing at one or more gaming terminals. The actual value of a progressive award is determined by follow-up game play by... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7871328 | Random pay using non-gaming revenue A wager amount from a player is received. A programmer input of information based on a specified average value, a specified minimum value, and a specified maximum value is determined. The specified average value is independently specified between the specified minim... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7862427 | Wide area progressive jackpot system and methods A progressive jackpot system for allowing access to multiple wide area progressive jackpots at a gaming machine is described. The gaming machine connected to the progressive systems can be switched between two or more different progressive games where each progressi... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7857699 | Gaming system and method of operating a gaming system having a bonus participation bidding sequence A gaming system where, as players place wagers to play the primary games of the gaming devices, a portion or percentage of the wager placed by each player to initiate the primary game is allocated to an accumulated value pool. A target value is based on the average ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7854654 | Gaming system having multiple gaming machines which provide bonus awards A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines and a plurality of bonus awards. The central server monitors wagers on the gaming machines. Based at least in part on the wagers the central server determines when bonus events will ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7850524 | Progressive jackpot game with special bonus A method of providing all players on a linked network to receive a bonus opportunity based on one player hitting the primary jackpot. All players in an active game, (i.e., the reel spinning mode has been activated by the player bet, and the reels have not yet stoppe... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7837555 | Apparatus and method for awarding a prize Apparatus (1) and associated methods are disclosed for determining the award of a plurality of prizes having respective prize values. The apparatus includes memory (2) for storing data indicative of a current prize value; an input device (3) bei... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7811168 | Random pay gaming system using weighting function with maximum, minimum, and average value A method of providing a game for a gaming device using random payout from a prize pool, the game including a plurality of possible game outcomes, is provided. The method comprises: receiving, at the gaming device, a wager amount; receiving an input to initiate game ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7794322 | System for awarding a bonus to a gaming device on a wide area network A method for awarding a bonus to a player of an electronic gaming device at one of a plurality of casino properties is implemented with a slave server networked with gaming devices at each property. The slave servers are networked with a master server that accumulat... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7771276 | Method and apparatus for a gaming network architecture Embodiments of the invention relate generally to wagering games and, more particularly, to a gaming network linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The gaming network has a plurality of servers dedicated to providing a shared game to a plurality of gaming terminal... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7766744 | Method and apparatus for providing customizable player bonuses A method and apparatus for tracking play of a game is disclosed. A first set of game outcomes from play of a game associated with a first enterprise is received and stored in a database. A second set of game outcomes from play of a second game associated with a seco... | 08/03/2010 |
