Abstract: Some popular games suitable for stimulating imagination and exercising logic and deductive skills, such as Tic-Tac-Toe, rapidly lose their utility with respect to stimulating imagination or exercising logic or deductive skills due to the static nature of their play and the limited numbers of moves available. Three dimensional games such as a three-dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe game having greater than nine total substructures is more challenging for game players, although one drawback is the inability of the players to easily visualize, and thereby comprehend, the choices a three dimensional playing surface provides. The present invention provides a three dimensional game with an expanded number of moves available as well as a rotatable playing structure where each substructure within the playing structure has mutatable characteristics when viewed prospectively, allowing players to more easily visualize, and thereby comprehend, the choices three dimensional playing surfaces provide.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a bonusing promotion system using a bonus server interconnected to a plurality of gaming devices is described. A percentage of a wager played on each gaming device is accumulated into a bonus pool stored on the bonus server. The bonus pool is compared to a threshold value stored on the bonus server each time the bonus pool changes. One of the gaming devices is selected when the threshold value is substantially met. A bonus prize funded by the bonus pool is awarded to the selected gaming device.

Abstract: A gaming machine comprises a visual display and a bonus feature of a wagering game. The visual display shows an array of symbols in visual association with at least one pay line. The array includes a special symbol and a stop-game symbol. The game feature includes a plurality of rounds. During each round, the special symbol and the stop-game symbol randomly move to and stop at new respective positions on the array. The game feature awards a payout if the symbols along the pay line correspond to a winning game outcome. The game feature ends when the special symbol and the stop-game symbol land on the same position.

Abstract: A reel-type slot machine includes a microprocessor driven game control circuit for randomly determining a game result and three reel assemblies each including a symbol-bearing reel driven by a stepper motor for displaying the game results. The stepper motors each include a permanent magnet rotor and four stator windings which respond to quadrature phase motor drive signals generated by the game control circuit to incrementally rotate the reels. A reel motion monitoring circuit senses back EMF on each stator winding to generate an error signal which inhibits play in the event a motor fails to respond to an applied drive signal or a reel is moved by tampering.

Abstract: Security is ensured by judging agreement with a specific indication, such as a trademark, whose identity is socially recognizable to effectively expel counterfeits from the market. A game machine in which a CD-ROM 17 is mounted on a game machine 10 to play a game based on program information stored in the CD-ROM 17 comprises a recognition sensor 22 reading a trademark indication region 20 on the exterior surface of the CD-ROM 17, and a judging unit judging whether a specific trademark TM is displayed in a trademark indication region, the game based on the program information being prevented from starting, or if started stopped when the specific trademark TM is not displayed.

Abstract: Securing and protective rigid disc for a condom, having on its peripheral edge a flat flange 1 provided to be engaged under the bead B of the sheath of condom P, said disc being placed on the upper and outside end of the condom. The flange 1 surrounds a part of the disc which, towards the outside, presents a protrusion above the plane of said flange. This protrusion preferably comprises a skirt 2 serving of lateral backing for the bead of the sheath and surrounding a convex dom 3, for example of spherical shape. This disc can be used with all kind of condoms.