NON-TRANSITIVE GAMING ELEMENTS AND GAMING METHODS

• US 20120049447A1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stanley Klein
• Original Assignee: Stanley Klein
• Inventors: Klein, Stanley
• Granted Patent: US 8,323,097 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/146
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games

Abstract

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 advantage represented by higher scores, on average, as compared with the scores of the second and the first provides an advantage represented by higher scores, on average, as compared with the scores of the third, and wherein each of the three respective advantages are all less than 3 percent and each advantage does not differ from the mean of the three advantages by more than 20 percent.

Claims

1. Non-transitive gaming elements, comprising:

a) a first one or more gaming elements configured for providing a first random outcome associated with a score;

b) a second one or more gaming elements configured for providing a second random outcome associated with a score; and

c) a third one or more gaming elements configured for providing a third random outcome associated with a score, wherein;

the second one or more gaming elements provides an advantage represented by higher scores, on average, as compared with the scores of the first one or more gaming elements, the third one or more gaming elements provides an advantage represented by higher scores, on average, as compared with the scores of the second one or more gaming elements and the first one or more gaming elements provides an advantage represented by higher scores, on average, as compared with the scores of the third one or more gaming elements, and wherein each of the three respective advantages are all less than 3 percent and each advantage does not differ from the mean of the three advantages by more than 20 percent.

2. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 1, wherein the outcomes of the first, second and third gaming elements are each associated with a numerical value.

3. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 2, wherein a higher numerical value is equivalent to a higher score.

4. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 1, wherein the first, second and third gaming elements are configured to provide three respective probabilities of achieving a tie score wherein the three tie probabilities are all greater than 10 percent and less than 12 percent and are substantially the same among the first, second and third gaming elements wherein each tie probability does not differ from the mean of the three tie probabilities by more than 5 percent.

5. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 1, wherein the gaming elements are dice.

6. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 5, wherein the first, second and third random outcomes are each associated with an integer.

7. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 1, wherein the three respective advantages do not differ from their mean by more than 1 percent.

8. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 1, wherein the first, second and third gaming elements are groups of specially configured non-transitive cards.

9. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 8, wherein the first non-transitive group of cards comprises 36 cards of the following configuration:

two 2s, two 3s, six 4s, eight 5s, two 6s, ten 7s, two 8s, two 9s and two 10s;

the second group of cards comprises 36 cards of the following configuration;

four 1s, four 3s, four 4s, four 5s, four 6s, four 7s, eight 8s and four 9s; and

the third group of cards comprises 36 cards of the following configuration;

two 1s, two 2s, four 3s, four 4s, four 5s, six 6s, four 7s, four 8s, two 9s, two 10s and two 11s.

10. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 1, wherein the first, second and third one or more gaming elements include features which render each of the first, second and third one or more gaming elements distinguishable from one another.

11. Non-transitive gaming elements, comprising:

a) a first one or more dice configured for generating a first random roll outcome associated with a score;

b) a second one or more dice configured for generating a second random roll outcome associated with a score; and

c) a third one or more dice configured for generating a third random roll outcome associated with a score, wherein;

the second one or more dice is further configured to provide a higher roll score at a statistical advantage of x as compared with the roll score of the first one or more dice, the third one or more dice is further configured to provides a higher roll score at a statistical advantage of y as compared with the roll score of the second one or more dice and the first one or more dice is further configured to provide a higher roll score at a statistical advantage of z as compared with the roll score of the third one or more dice, wherein x, y and z are each values that are greater than zero percent and less than 5 percent.

12. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 11, wherein the first one or more dice are a first color, the second one or more dice are a second color and third one or more dice are a third color, the first, second and third colors being different from one another.

13. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 11, wherein the first, second and third one or more dice each comprise dice having six sides.

14. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 13, wherein the first one or more dice further comprises a first die with 1, 3, 3, 3, 5 and 6 pips, respectively on each side, and a second die with 2, 2, 3, 3, 5 and 5 pips, respectively on each side.

15. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 13, wherein the second one or more dice further comprises a first die with 1, 1, 3, 3, 4 and 4 pips, respectively on each side, and a second die with 1, 1, 5, 5, 6 and 6 pips, respectively on each side.

16. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 13, wherein the third one or more dice further comprises a first die with 1, 1, 3, 3, 6 and 6 pips, respectively on each side, and a second die with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 pips, respectively on each side.

17. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 11, wherein each of the three respective probabilities of achieving a tie score among the first, second and third one or more dice does not differ from the mean of said three probabilities by more than 2 percent.

18. Non-transitive gaming elements as recited in claim 11, wherein x, y and z are each the same value.

19. Gaming apparatus for producing non-transitive random outcomes, comprising:

a) a first one or more gaming elements configured for providing a first randomly generated score;

b) a second one or more gaming elements configured for providing a second randomly generated score; and

c) a third one or more gaming elements configured for providing a third randomly generated score, wherein the first, second and third gaming elements are configured for;

the second randomly generated score to be a higher score, on average, than the first randomly generated score by an advantage between greater than zero percent and less than 5 percent, and the third randomly generated score to be a higher score, on average, than the second randomly generated score by an advantage between greater than zero percent and less than 5 percent, the first randomly generated score to be a higher score, on average, than the third randomly generated score by an advantage between greater than zero percent and less than 5 percent, with each of the three pairings of the first, second or third randomly generated scores having a probability of greater than 5 percent and less than 15 percent of being a tie.

20. Gaming apparatus as recited in claim 19, wherein the first, second and third gaming elements are configured for the second randomly generated score to be a higher score, on average, than the first randomly generated score by an advantage A, the third score to be a higher score, on average, than the second randomly generated score by the advantage A, and the first randomly generated score to be a higher score, on average, than the third randomly generated score by the advantage A, wherein A is a value greater than zero percent and less than 5 percent.

21. Gaming apparatus as recited in claim 19, wherein the first, second and third gaming elements are configured to provide the same probability of any pairing of the first, second and third randomly generated scores being a tie.

22. Gaming apparatus as recited in claim 19, wherein the first, second and third randomly generated scores are randomly generated numerical values.

23. Gaming apparatus as recited in claim 22, wherein a higher score corresponds with a higher randomly generated numerical value.

24. Gaming apparatus as recited in claim 22, wherein a tie corresponds with any two of the first, second or third randomly generated scores achieving the same numerical value.

25. Gaming apparatus as recited in claim 19, wherein each of the first, second and third gaming elements comprise a pair of six-sided dice.

26. Gaming apparatus as recited in claim 19, wherein the first, second and third gaming elements further comprise one or more data processors.

27. Gaming apparatus as recited in claim 19, further comprising a display for displaying the first, second and third randomly generated scores.