Wagering game apparatuses, methods and systems for slot games with a “21” theme and video three card poker featuring multiple pay lines with progressive jackpots

• US 10,186,108 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2017
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ahmnon D. Moskowitz
• Original Assignee: Ahmnon D. Moskowitz
• Inventors: Moskowitz, Ahmnon D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Laneau, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US15/657,811
• Publication Number:
  US 20170323520A1
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3213 Details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3246 involving coins and/or banknotes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3262 Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

Methods, systems and apparatuses of and for playing electronic or electro-mechanical wager gaming devices, including a player interface, of and for playing a “slot machine”, “rotary reel”, or “video poker” type game based at least in part upon card-deck games such as but not limited to blackjack and/or poker. The methods, systems and apparatuses include a plurality of configurations with multiple rule sets and payout lines to facilitate the inducement and build game player excitement.

Claims

1. An electronic gaming system dedicated to playing a regulated wagering game, comprising:

at least one display device;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

(a) display a player interface on the at least one display device, the player interface having a slot based visual representation including at least three actuation result locations based upon selections from a “

playing card”

deck and at least one module indicating a win actuation result location;

(b) upon actuation, update the at least three actuation result locations on the at least one display device based at least in part upon the output of a randomized number generator and at least one rule set;

(c) calculate a point score based on the rule set if the at least three actuation result locations comprise a value that is twenty-one (21) counting in sequential order across the at least one module; and

(d) update an account based upon the point score,

wherein if the sequential values in a module total more than twenty-one (21) or are exactly twenty-one, a new sequence begins at the next sequential actuation result location allowing the possibility of two or more twenty-one (21) values within the module.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one input device, wherein the at least one input device is configured to accept real money or virtual money and is configured to accept a wager.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the point score is determined according to a predetermined table, wherein the point score designates a credit to the account, wherein the rotary reel based visual representation includes at least fifteen actuation result locations and at least three modules wherein the at least one rule set is to have a twenty-one objective that uses numerical values based upon the Blackjack or Twenty-One card game.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the account is a player account or game account.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the point score is based on the cumulative twenty-one (21) values across all of the modules.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the point score is credited for having the at least three actuation result locations total less than twenty-one (21).

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the rotary reel based visual representation includes at least six actuation result locations and wherein the at least one rule set is based upon the card game Poker.

8. A gaming input device apparatus comprising:

the gaming system of claim 1;

a wager input device; and

a cash out device,

wherein a payout is awarded to a player if they have exactly a twenty-one (21) value sequentially from left to right in a module from the starting point.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one rule set includes criteria for determining the account deficit or asset based at least in part upon the player actuation results.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one rule set includes criteria for determining the account bonus based at least in part upon the player actuation results.

11. A wager input system for a game on an electronic gaming device, the wager input system comprising:

at least one display device;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

(a) display on the at least one display device, a player interface having at least two non-intersecting modules from a game of three card poker; and

(b) a rule set based on a calculation of a point score if the at least three actuation result locations comprise a value,

wherein if the subsequent values in a module total more than twenty-one (21) or are exactly twenty-one, a new sequence begins at the next subsequent actuation result location allowing the possibility of two or more twenty-one (21) values within the modules.

12. The wager input system of claim 11, further comprising a pay-table that specifically indicates a high payout of Ace King Queen in a specific sequence of a specific suit.

13. The wager input system of claim 12, wherein the pay-table has a high payout that involves a symbol that is not from a 52-card deck.

14. The wager input system of claim 11, wherein the at least one display device has an interface and wherein the interface has four quadrants (I, II , III and IV) with each quadrant having at least two non-intersecting pay lines.

15. A method of playing a multi-zone blackjack game on an electronic gaming device, the method comprising:

providing an electronic gaming device having a wager input device that accepts vouchers and physical currency, a processor, and a controller, wherein the controller controls an electronic game of multi-zone blackjack, wherein the electronic game of multi-zone blackjack includes at least three zones;

initiating the game via the processor on the electronic gaming device, the game involving;

a) receiving via the processor an initial wager from a player;

b) revealing, by the electronic gaming device, a blackjack card to a player;

c) receiving an input from the player regarding which zone area to place the blackjack card in;

d) repeating, by the electronic gaming device, steps (b)-(c) until the total value of the cards in each of the three or more zones is twenty-one (21) or greater than twenty-one (21); and

e) determining via the processor whether the player is entitled to a payout if the player achieves a value of twenty-one (21) in at least one of the three or more zones or if five cards having a total value of twenty-one (21) or less is in at least one of the three or more zones,

wherein if the sequential values in a module total more than twenty-one (21) or are exactly twenty-one, a new sequence begins at the next sequential actuation result location allowing the possibility of two or more twenty-one (21) values within the module.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least three or more zones includes a fourth zones and a fifth zone.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the at least three or more zones are non-intersecting.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein a cumulative award is provided if the player achieves a value of twenty-one (21) or five cards having a total value of twenty-one (21) or less in at least two of the three or more zones.

19. A regulated wagering system, comprising:

at least one display surface;

at least one processor; and

at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

(a) display a player interface on the at least one display device, the player interface having a slot based visual representation including at least three actuation result locations based upon selections from a “

playing card”

deck and at least one module indicating a win actuation result location;

(b) upon actuation, update the at least three actuation result locations on the at least one display device based at least in part upon the output of a randomized number generator and at least one rule set;

(c) calculate a point score based on the rule set if the at least three actuation result locations comprise a value that is twenty-one (21) counting in sequential order across the at least one module; and

(d) update an account based upon the point score,

wherein if the sequential values in a module total more than twenty-one (21) or are exactly twenty-one, a new sequence begins at the next sequential actuation result location allowing the possibility of two or more twenty-one (21) values within the module.

20. A method of executing a regulated wagering game, comprising:

providing a game with at least one display surface area, the at least one display surface comprising a player interface on the at least one display surface, the player interface having a “

playing deck”

based indicia including at least three actuation result locations based upon selections from a “

playing card”

deck and at least one module indicating a win actuation result location;

actuating the at least three actuation result locations on the at least one display surface based at least in part upon at least one rule set;

calculating a point score based on the rule set if the at least three actuation result locations comprise a value that is twenty-one (21) across the at least one module; and

determining a win amount based on the point amount is stored on the systems memory,

wherein if the sequential values in a module total more than twenty-one (21) or are exactly twenty-one, a new sequence begins at the next sequential actuation result location allowing the possibility of two or more twenty-one (21) values within the module.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising providing an electronic mechanism configured to detect a physical item associated with a monetary value that determines the objects valuation upon interfacing with a physical object.