Game with multiple winning ways

• US 4,836,546 A
• Filed: 07/08/1988
• Issued: 06/06/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Michael Wichinsky
• Original Assignee: Felix M. Dire, Joseph Carlisi
• Inventors: Carlisi, Joseph, DiRe, Felix M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HARRISON, JESSICA
• Application Number:
  US07/216,815
• Time in Patent Office: 333 Days
• Field of Search: 273/138 A, 273/143 R, 273/1 E, 273/85 G, 273/DIG. 28, 364/410-412
• US Class Current: 463/18
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2007/4031 with balls of different colours or other visual characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3213 Details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
• 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 17/3262 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 17/3295 Games involving skill, e.g. dexterity, memory, thinking

Abstract

An apparatus and game process having two steps, Step I and Step II, is disclosed having three ways of winning. In step I, the player preselects up to "Y" numbers, "Y" is equal to the number of indicators on the apparatus. In Step, I, the first way of winning (or becoming eligible to win) is by selecting any winning number which will be displayed on any one indicator. The second way of winning is by preselecting a number that occurs more than once in at least two indicators. The third way of winning is by preselecting sequence of occurrence of any number in any indicator. If a person has become eligible to win because of Step I, he or she can then in Step II hold winning numbers and re-spin the others at least once. In Step I or as another second step, he or she can play high-low in a plurality of ways, one of which is adding up the values on the winning indicators. Another Step II would be to answer trivia type questions in order to win the awards of Step I.

Claims

1. A novel game apparatus having the following winning means:

(1) means for preselecting up to "Y" possible winning numbers from a given group of numbers, "Y" being an amount of indicators in said apparatus, a number of said group of numbers in a winning number if it appears on one of said indicators;

(2) means for awarding a win when the number selected at a given location corresponds to the winning location; and

(3) means for preselecting said numbers in which said number of (1) occurs in at least two of said winning indicators;

said winning indicators comprising at least two independent means having identical numbers indicated thereon and having identical stopping positions provided thereon, a final stopping position on each of said indicators substantially simultaneously providing the winning numbers of at least two winning means of 1-3 above and display means for displaying said final stopping positions, and means for freezing at least one of said indicators, means for respinning at least one of said indicators, means for determining the sum of said numbers on all the indicators, and means for selecting a high or low value for said sum.

2. The game of claim 1 wherein processes 1-3 are preselected and said winning indicators are reels having the same amount of numbers as the amount of numbers available for preselection.

3. The game of claim 1 wherein processes 1-3 are preselected and said winning indicators are wheels having the same amount of numbers as the amount of numbers available for preselection.

4. The game of claim 1 wherein two to ten independent winning indicators are used, each of said indicators having the same numbers indicated thereon, and the same amount of stopping positions, which equals the amount of numbers available for preselection.

5. The game of claim 1 wherein two to ten independent winning indicators are used, each of said indicators having the same numbers indicated thereon and the same amount of stopping positions and wherein said player preselects up to "Y" numbers, wherein "Y" is equal to the number of indicators, said indicators having depicted thereon an amount of numbers and having an amount of stopping positions of at least five.

6. The game of claim 1 having means for selecting a high or low sum total of the numbers before activating said indicators, and having means for subsequently comparing the resulting sum with the high or low selection previously made.