Visually differentiating the coded combinations of three dies

• US 4,743,025 A
• Filed: 12/04/1984
• Issued: 05/10/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert E. Gramera
• Original Assignee: Robert E. Gramera
• Inventors: Gramera, Robert E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shapiro, Paul E.
• Application Number:
  US06/678,117
• Time in Patent Office: 1,253 Days
• Field of Search: 273/146, 273/138, 273/268, 273/274, 273/142 E
• US Class Current: 273/146
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/0475 with two or more colours
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/04 Dice dice tops A63F5/04 D; Dice-boxes; Mechanical dice-throwing devices casino or betting games played on boards A63F3/00157

Abstract

Each of the two hundred sixteen possible numerical combinations of three six-sided dice is visually differentiated, one from the other, by retaining the six differently numbered faces on a conventional first neutral die; coding each of the six differently numbered faces on a second die with separate figure symbols; and coding each of the six numbered faces on a third die with separate colors and five different numbers. One of the faces of the third die repeats the number on one of the other faces of that die. Rolling the set of three dice over an extended period of time will display each of the expected fifteen numerical sums, ranging in values from three through seventeen, in two-hundred-sixteen separate and visually differentiated combinations, each turning up with equal odds of 1 in 216. Development of this coding technique, to separate and expand the normally expected fifteen numerical sums to two-hundred-sixteen numerical scores, by visually differentiating each of two-hundred-sixteen possible combinations of three six-sided dice, rolled with equal odds, affords a simplified but practical application to create a variety of new dice related games incorporating game boards, playing cards or a combination thereof.

Claims

1. A set of three (3) multi-sided dice, comprising a first die having thereon a plurality of flat faces of equal area, all of said faces provided with the same background indicia, each face additionally carrying means representing a numeral, all said represented numerals being different from each other, a second multi-sided die having thereon the same number of flat faces as said first die, each face of said second die carrying means representing a numeral, each face on said second die carrying background indicia different from that on each other face and different from said background indicia on said first die;

and a third multi-sided die having thereon the same number of flat faces as said first and second die, each face of said third die carrying means representing a numeral, each face on said third die carrying background indicia different from that on each face of said one of said second or third dice, whereby every possible combination of throws may be visually distinguished even when the numerical total of throws is the same.

2. The set of three (3) multi-sided dice described in claim 1, combined with a numbered game board, upon which each visually differentiated numerical sum rolled out by the dice set is displayed, thus constituting an apparatus, whereby a variety of different dice games can be played.