Game with changing odds and payouts

• US 20070135207A1
• Filed: 02/06/2007
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IGT (International Game Technology)
• Original Assignee: IGT (International Game Technology)
• Inventors: Tarantino, Elia
• Application Number:
  US11/703,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20070135207A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/22
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00157 Casino or betting games horse races A63F3/00082
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• 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 17/3248 involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value
• 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 17/3272 Games involving multiple players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3286 Type of games

Abstract

A method and apparatus for playing a game provides for varying payouts depending on changing odds for receiving winning combinations. In one embodiment, the magnitude of an award or payout for a winning game outcome increases as the odds of receiving the outcome decreases. In games played with indicia, awards or payouts may increase as the number of indicia used in the game is decreased. In other embodiments, the magnitude of an award or payout for a winning game outcome decreases as the odds or receiving the outcome increases.

Claims

1. A method of playing a game comprising:

accepting a wager from a player;

presenting a first portion of a game with a first set of indicia;

declaring one or more results of said game as winning outcomes;

providing a first winning amount for each of said winning outcomes if received in said first portion of said game;

presenting a second portion of said game with a second set of indicia comprising a sub-set of less than all of said first set of indicia;

providing a second winning amount for one or more of said winning outcomes if received in said second portion of said game, said second winning amount being less than said first winning amount.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said indicia comprise dice indicia.

3. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said first and second winning amounts comprise points.

4. The method in accordance with claim 1 including the step of removing one or more of said indicia from said first set of indicia to create said second set of indicia.

5. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said game is a dice game and in said first portion of said game said player attempts to achieve dice indicia matching a first target indicia and in said second portion of said game said player attempts to achieve dice indicia matching a second target indicia.

6. The method in accordance with claim 5 wherein said first portion of said game is played with dice indicia having the values 1-6 and in said second portion of said game, said game is played with dice indicia having the target indicia removed.

7. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said first portion of said game comprises a first round and said second portion of said game comprises a second round.

8. The method in accordance with claim 7 wherein said first round of said game comprises randomly displaying one or more indicia from said first set of indicia and said second round of said game comprises replacing one or more of said displayed indicia with indicia from said second set of indicia.

9. The method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said first and second winning amounts comprises points and including the step of awarding monetary winnings based upon a number of points awarded.