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<title>freepatentsonline.com: Amusement devices: games</title>
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<title><![CDATA[Card game]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364161.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[This invention is mainly a 7-card stud poker game, played with at least one standard poker deck of 52 cards, plus at least one Joker. After a player places a Poker wager and/or a Pair Of Aces Or Better wager, the player then has the option to place a Bonus wager, against a banker. Each said wager automatically wins if the player is dealt a 7-Card 9 High hand or a 7-Card Straight Flush; otherwise, the player's Poker wager wins if the player's best 5-card poker hand ranks higher than or the same as the banker's best 5-card poker hand; the player's Pair Of Aces Or Better wager wins if the player's best 5-card poker hand is a pair of Aces or better; the player's Bonus wager wins if the player's best 5-card poker hand ranks higher than or the same as the banker's with a predetermined hand or better.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Big money playing card game and method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364163.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Big Money playing card game has a box; playing cards and a set of rules and a die, the playing cards including financial cards which constitute the majority of the playing cards and which teach the value of money in business, timing cards which constitute the minority of the playing cards and which teach the value of time in big business, and activity cards which constitute less than ten percent of the playing cards and which teach the value of actions in big business; a set of rules; and a die.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Poker-type card game method]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364162.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A poker-type game capable of providing players with an exciting alternative to Texas Hold'em and Omaha in which four community cards are dealt, eliminating the effect of the river card. Preferably, in the poker-type card game each player is dealt three playing cards from which at least one must be used in combination with at least two of four community cards to form a best five-card poker hand.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reconfigurable golf game]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364164.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A reconfigurable golf game having an interchangeable body, a hollow shaft, a swing actuation system, and a coupler. The coupler allows a user that purchases one game system including multiple interchangeable bodies to easily attach different interchangeable bodies to the hollow shaft thereby changing the game. The various interchangeable bodies mimic the look and swing characteristics of modem professional golfers. The swing actuation system includes a translational motion system, including a rack and prime mover, and a rotational motion system, including a pinion. In operation the user grips the hollow shaft and activates the translation motion system by pulling the prime mover, and thus the rack, away from the interchangeable body, the rotational motion system pinion cooperates with the rack thereby causing the rotating body portion to rotate from a maximum backswing position to a maximum follow-through position, striking the replica golf ball.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gaming device base]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364160.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A gaming device base having a front surface that allows players to extend their legs. In the preferred embodiment, the gaming device base has a horizontal support member having a substantially flat surface to support at least one gaming device and at least one edge. The gaming device base has at least one door positioned beneath the horizontal support member. The door may be moved from an open to a closed position. In the closed position, the door is positioned behind the edge of the horizontal support member. The door has at least one angled portion, which is an acute angle measured from a vertical plane. Players sitting in front of the edge of the horizontal support member may stretch or extend their legs behind the edge of the horizontal support member.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[System and method for presenting payouts in gaming systems]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364159.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A system and method for facilitating a shell game activity as a primary or secondary/bonus gaming activity in a mechanistic, electronic, or combined mechanistic/electronic manner. Embodiments of methods for presenting gaming payouts involve providing an automated shell-game device and presenting, to a player, a plurality of award elements having a positional relationship to one another, using the automated shell-game device. The plurality of award elements are obscured from the player's view, and subjected to an apparent shuffling in terms of relative position as perceived by the player. A selected award element is revealed to the player subsequent to the apparent shuffling, and a payout result is determined, based on the selected award element.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gaming device having an offer/acceptance game with multi-offer symbol]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364507.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The present invention is a gaming device and preferably a bonus round game of a gaming device that enables a player to initiate a randomly generated number, wherein said number determines the number of positions that a position marker will move along an enclosed path. Each time the marker lands upon a previously unmarked position, the game provides an award associated with that position to the player. When the marker lands upon a previously marked position, the game ends. The present invention also contemplates updating or changing the values of unmarked or unselected positions along the enclosed path by preferably adding to each unmarked or unselected position the value of the award of a previously selected position. That is, when the game randomly selects an unmarked position, the game provides the player with an award, wherein the game preferably replaces a previously achieved award with the award of the newly selected position. In an alternative embodiment of the invention, an accumulator symbol may be generated by the move generator which enables the player to receive an offer associated with more than one display position.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gaming machine with a graphical indicator]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364506.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A wagering game in which a graphical indicator may be used to identify a positive outcome, or a negative outcome, or where multiple graphical indicators may be used to identify and distinguish both positive and negative outcomes in a selection game, which has a plurality of player selectable markers. The player may select markers to reveal an outcome. The outcome may be a credit award, a multiplier, or any other award that provides a player with a benefit, either monetary, or in the context of game play (e.g., a free selection). The graphical indicator is provided the player either on a random basis, as an incentive award for a player tracking system, or simply provided on the basis of game play criteria. The graphical indicator may also be used to denote a subset of markers, at least one of which has the indicated outcome.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for player stimulation]]></title>
<link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7364505.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A gaming apparatus includes a value input device, a display unit that is capable of generating video images, a light array, an audio output device, and a controller operatively coupled to said value input device, said display unit, said light array and said audio output device, said controller including a processor and a memory operatively coupled to said processor. The controller is programmed to allow a person to make a wager, to cause a video image representing a game to be generated on said display unit, to determine a game event mode, to selectively perform one of: (i) to cause a sound segment to be generated on said audio output device and synchronize a light pattern to be generated on said light array with the sound segment and (ii) to control said light array directly to cause a light pattern to be generated on said light array according to the game event mode, and to determine a value payout associated with an outcome of said game.]]></description>
<pubDate>April 29, 2008</pubDate>
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