Bingo game calculator with improved processing
First Claim
1. A multiple bingo card, simultaneous play, electronic calculator, for playing a plurality of entered bingo cards according to an entered bingo game pattern having reduced memory requirements and increased calculating speed, comprising:
- display means for displaying alpha-numeric information, said display means including a driver circuit connected thereto, said driver circuit controlling the information displayed;
a calculator circuitry connected to said display means driver circuit, said calculator circuitry including a plurality of working storage elements;
a dedicated instruction keyboard pad connected to said calculator circuitry and to said display means driver circuit;
a numeric keyboard pad connected to said calculator circuitry and to said display means driver circuit;
a memory chip for storing bingo card information and called bingo numbers information, said memory chip being connected to said calculator circuitry;
wherein said calculator circuitry storage elements include a storage location for the bingo game pattern selected to be played; and
wherein said calculator circuitry places said bingo game pattern over said memory chip stored bingo card information and then compares called bingo numbers with each stored bingo card pattern number;
wherein said bingo game pattern selected forms a "mask," said mask limiting bingo card number search for each bingo card stored to patterns required for the particular bingo game selected, said mask being divided into a series of submasks each said submask corresponding to one possible winning bingo pattern; and
wherein said calculator circuitry include means for skipping stored bingo card for comparison when two missed comparisons between called and stored bingo numbers for each submask of said mask are attained.
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Abstract
A minicomputer system is built-up and customized to monitor and analyze bingo game play entered into the system according to a soft-wired processing sequence, allowing a player to simultaneously play a large number of bingo cards with user friendly communication and announcements of near bingo and bingo wins, whereof the processor stores a large number of different entered bingo cards, a bingo game pattern to be played and analyzes and stores entered bingo "called" numbers and determines a "win".
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14 Claims
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1. A multiple bingo card, simultaneous play, electronic calculator, for playing a plurality of entered bingo cards according to an entered bingo game pattern having reduced memory requirements and increased calculating speed, comprising:
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display means for displaying alpha-numeric information, said display means including a driver circuit connected thereto, said driver circuit controlling the information displayed; a calculator circuitry connected to said display means driver circuit, said calculator circuitry including a plurality of working storage elements; a dedicated instruction keyboard pad connected to said calculator circuitry and to said display means driver circuit; a numeric keyboard pad connected to said calculator circuitry and to said display means driver circuit; a memory chip for storing bingo card information and called bingo numbers information, said memory chip being connected to said calculator circuitry; wherein said calculator circuitry storage elements include a storage location for the bingo game pattern selected to be played; and
wherein said calculator circuitry places said bingo game pattern over said memory chip stored bingo card information and then compares called bingo numbers with each stored bingo card pattern number;wherein said bingo game pattern selected forms a "mask," said mask limiting bingo card number search for each bingo card stored to patterns required for the particular bingo game selected, said mask being divided into a series of submasks each said submask corresponding to one possible winning bingo pattern; and wherein said calculator circuitry include means for skipping stored bingo card for comparison when two missed comparisons between called and stored bingo numbers for each submask of said mask are attained. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of playing, simultaneously, a plurality of bingo cards according to a predetermined bingo game pattern on an electronic calculator allowing for reduced memory requirements and increased speed of comparisons, comprising the steps of:
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first loading sequentially the numbers from a first bingo card to be played; second loading sequentially the numbers from plural subsequent bingo cards, said second loaded cards being sequentially loaded; selecting a game pattern; making said first and second loaded bingo card numbers to make only those available for comparison which fulfill the selected game pattern; entering each called bingo number when called; searching each bingo card stored for comparison with each entered called number; first determining a near comparison when a bingo card comparison needs but one more number; first announcing the identification of said bingo card and said needed number when said determination is made; second determining a bingo win when a bingo card comparison completes all bingo numbers-locations for a bingo win; second announcing the identification of said bingo card and said winning numbers when a win is made; and including following the step of searching and before the step of first determining, the steps of; keeping track of the number of non-comparisons made on each possible winning bingo pattern on each bingo card; and skipping to the next possible winning bingo pattern when two said non-comparisons are accumulated on each said possible winning bingo pattern. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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