Abstract: A lottery number selection device is set forth wherein a transparent case slidingly accepts planar insert therewithin. The insert is provided with a plurality of upstanding flexible tips at a distal end thereof adjacent an outwardly extending stem portion. A plurality of inserts is contemplated in corresponding to a like number of States utilizing a lottery for income gathering purposes. Each State insert includes a number of hemispherical recesses corresponding to the number of single and multi digit potential numbers utilized in a lottery number. A number of spherical balls corresponding to the number of single and multi-digit numbers selected in a lottery number selection procedure. The number of balls may be deleted or added from interiorly of the case to correspond to the numbers to be selected.

Abstract: Gaming layout arrangements having jackpot areas and methods therefor are provided in accordance with the present invention. One or more geometric forms are established on a traditional gaming layout where markers such as dice are employed in normally playing the game. When a marker employed in playing the game happens to land within a geometric form associated with a jackpot, a jackpot condition is defined. The size, shape, number and value of each geometric form may be varied to define the value and probability of achieving a jackpot condition.

Abstract: A bowling alley bumper system in which an elongated bumper is mounted alongside and parallel to each alley gutter, and in which there are provided movable supports that permit the extension of the bumpers to guard the gutters when guarding is desired and retraction of the bumpers to expose the gutters when normal alley operation is desired.

Abstract: Small pentagonal prisms of regular pentagon cross section have two opposite end faces and five circumferential side faces. The prisms are marked with indicia to indicate uniquely on which of the seven outer faces each of the prisms is resting. The length of the prism, i.e., the distance between the opposite end faces, is selected such that the probability of the playing piece landing on any of its seven outer faces is approximately equal. A layout intended for use with a pair of such pieces has a multiplicity of different betting areas arranged in concentric pentagonal rings; and a gaming table intended for use with such playing pieces is of pentagonal shape having five upright peripheral sides for retaining a pair of playing pieces thrown therein by players.

Abstract: A puzzle involving ten sticks (1-10). A player must carry one stick, e.g. stick 4, over two adjacent sticks, e.g. sticks 3 and 2, and place it across a third stick, e.g., stick 1, to form a "X". The player must repeat this process with other sticks until five sticks are crossed with five moved sticks, thus solving the puzzle.

Abstract: A board game includes a playing board with a playing surface formed as a rectangular grid of multiple rows and columns of recesses. A multiplicity of playing pieces are dimensioned to seat within the recesses and have a body portion about the periphery of which are repetitions of an indicium, such as a letter of the alphabet, and each repetition is in a distinct color. In game play a first player may place a multiplicity of playing pieces in aligned recesses to construct a cognizable linear array of indicia such as a word, and each playing piece displays its indicium in a preselected color associated with that player. The second player may place at least one playing piece in an empty recess adjacent one of the recesses utilized by the linear array of the first player and thus create a new cognizable linear array incorporating the added indicium which is rotated to display the repetition of the indicium in a color associated with the second player.

Abstract: An interactive game includes a housing with a first part and a second part. The first part is moveable with respect to the second part and carries a liquid crystal display. Switches provide electrical signals indicating the position of the first part with respect to the second part. A microcomputer connected to both the display and the switches is programmed to generate electrical signals to produce a moving image on the display. Movement of the first part of the housing with respect to the second part moves the display and the images thereon in a consistent fashion. A manually operable switch is provided to generate hit indicating events under operator control. When the images enter a target region they may be obliterated from the display by a manually generated hit indicating event.

Abstract: A random number selection device (10) is provided with a support base (20) having a pair of extending substantially parallel arms (22) between which a hollow container (30) is rotatably mounted. Within container (30) there is provided a plurality of balls (15) each having indicia (17) representing a different numeric symbol to provide a random selection of digits. Coupled to container (30) there is provided, ball distributor (40) having a sliding actuator (42) with a plurality of partitions integrally formed thereon to define queuing spaces (50) therebetween. Ball receiving housing (46) having a plurality of integrally formed partitions (48), defining ball receiving chambers (45) is coupled to a tubular housing (44) of distributor (40). Sliding actuator (42) is biased in a first position by a spring (49), in this position partitions (43 and 48) cooperate to prevent balls (15A) located in queuing spaces (50), when container (30) is inverted, from entering the respective ball receiving chambers (45).

Abstract: Pieces of a conventional jigsaw picture puzzle are cut to fit within a frame and over a base. Each piece has a suitable actuator (e.g., a magnet) embedded therein. The base has a switch (e.g., a magnetic switch) located below the location of the magnet of a particular piece when that piece is properly positioned within the frame to "solve" the puzzle. The switches are wired in series with a source of power, a melody generator and an amplifier. When the puzzle pieces are in proper position, the melody generator produces a tune appropriate for the picture of the puzzle. Several different puzzles may be provided fitting within the same frame. For each puzzle there is a key piece. For different puzzles the switch actuator of the key piece of located in a different location. A separate switch is located on the base below each actuator of the key piece and is wired to generate a different tune by being in series with a different melody generator. Instead of generating tunes, the device may actuate lights or speech.

Abstract: Dice game methods involving three dice and a doubling cube. The methods involve the providing of an objective total count to be reached to win the game, assigning a value to each face of the dice, permitting a first player to continue rolling as long as a certain minimum value is achieved for each roll, establishing an initial entry level beyond which the player can retain an accumulated count, permitting a player to stop rolling to fix his cumulative count and recommence accumulating a count during his next roll, returning the count to the last stopped cumulative count if the player does not achieve the minimum value on a given roll, and allowing the player whose turn is about to begin to offer the doubling cube to the opponent whereby the stakes are doubled if the opponent accepts the doubling cube or the game is won by the offering player if the opponent refuses to accept the doubling cube.

Abstract: A vibrating feeder type die machine having a die retrieving feeder of a generally rectangular shape and a spot counting feeder of an elongated channel. Both feeders are integrally connected so that the die may roll down from the die retrieving feeder to the spot counting channel. The vibration of the spot counting channel will cause the die to move forward to the spot counting position in the channel. After the number of spots on a selected side of the die is counted automatically, the die is pushed up to the dice retrieving feeder plane. The die machine may be equipped with die rolling means, which can be controlled by a player.

Abstract: A random number selection apparatus is set forth wherein a sealed enclosure contains positionally therein a series of hollow spherical balls that are pneumatically projected throughout the enclosure by means of a blower fan wherein the spherical balls randomly land upon a downwardly directed chute diagonally oriented relative to the enclosure wherein a medial portion of the chute is of an ellipsoidal trough-like configuration with a medial elongate trough to accept the balls therein. The balls are drawn through a square cross-sectional conduit which further comprises an air intake for the lower fan and thereby randomly accepts a series of balls supporting a series of numbers thereon. The numbers are formed with magnetic members of a first polarity and are attracted to a series of overlying magnets of a reverse polarity to randomly orient the balls and provide for random number selection of the numbers positioned underlying the magnets.

Abstract: A device in the configuration and appearance of a slot machine enables a lottery player to compare the combination of numbers he has selected and entered in the lottery with the winning series of numbers from a lottery drawing. A window in the front of the fanciful slot machine device displays numbers which are set by the user in accordance with the winning numbers drawn in the lottery. The settable numbers may be mechanical or electronic, such as LED. Below the winning lottery number window is a window or series of windows disposed in a horizontal line, for displaying the user's selected combination of numbers from a lottery ticket fed through an infeed slot and into position by means of an advancing wheel or knob which may be manually rotated by the user. All number combinations selected by the user can be compared directly with the winning numbers by advancing the ticket, number series by number series, to make comparisons sequentially to the winning number combination.

Abstract: There is disclosed a ball having a foraminous outer shell with an inner membrane which forms an interior closure within the outer shell and with a timer and a release mechanism operative to open the inner membrane and release its contents after the time on the timer expires. The contents spill through the foraminous outer shell, wetting the player who is handling or catching the ball at the moment of release. The timer is activated and the ball is used in a game in which it is tossed between participants who seek to avoid becoming wet when the timer releases the water from the interior closure of the ball.

Abstract: An adjustable frame for jig-saw puzzles defining the exterior parameters of the puzzle. Each side of the frame is made up of two or more members connected to each other by clamps that allow linear sliding of the members so as to make the frame independently adjustable as to length and width. A base member is connected to the bottom of the frame to provide a puzzle work surface.

Abstract: A game apparatus comprising a plurality of spherical members, a frame member and detent means for biasing the rotation of the spherical members is disclosed herein. Each spherical member has an axle projecting from it and includes a plurality of indicia disposed about an equatorial periphery thereof. The frame member includes a plurality of stations configured to receive one of the spherical members. The frame member further includes bearing means for supporting the axle of the spherical member so that the spherical member is rotatable in its station. The rotation of the spherical member allows for a player to select a particular display of indicium located on the spherical member. The game apparatus further includes a detent means for biasing the rotation of the spherical member to a preselected position, the position corresponding to a particular display of indicium.

Abstract: A puzzle including track sections which join together to provide circumferential tracks which carry movable circumferential members. The track sections are movable about one another in a plurality of planes to allow the forming of a variety of combinations. The circumferential members have characters printed thereon. The track sections are rotated, causing the circumferential members to be shifted from one circumferential track to another at track junctions in order to form predetermined patterns according to a particular game objective.

Abstract: An orientable composite having application to the human body for the relief of pain is provided. The composite consist of at least one pair of polarizing plates having polarization axes perpendicular to one another and the bisecting lines of the angles formed by said polarization axes coincide with the longitudinal axes of the body part of the painful area to be treated.

Abstract: An apparatus for randomly selecting numbers in lotteries and games, said device consists of an upper and lower disc, center planar support, having two aperture holes and handle. The upper and lower discs have affixed inertia weights for gyration, and the upper disc bears a number of protruding pegs that is served as a number eliminator. The center support has two viewing ports at a calculated separation on a linear radial from the center axis to align with the opposing numbers group disc. The operation of the device is provided by pure mechanical forces including inertia and hand leverage to provide random numbers in conjunction with a cluster peg disc to conceal given numbers.

Abstract: A card game playing aid comprising a display support structure on which is affixed an array of reference marks and a plurality of legended indicators adapted to be positioned relative to said reference marks in accordance with clues and inferences of card holdings obtained during game play. The positions of the individual said indicators and the special relationships between these indicators form a compact display of key qualitative and quantitative card hand parameters determinative of card holdings, and thereby enables the user to establish the make-up of concealed card hands during game play without the need for the special skills normally required of card memorization and other mental manipulation typically beyond the capability of average card players.