Abstract: The current invention comprises adding hypertext links to a fixed quantity of video advertisements and motivating viewers to view the videos completely by rewarding the viewers with free chances to play instant online number guessing games that award big cash prizes 24/7/365. To obtain the rewards, viewers must click on the links that appear during the video-Ads'final seconds.

Abstract: The current invention's web site displays a 30-second-long advertisement every minute of the day. The remaining seconds in each minute are used to display four-digit videos of winning numbers being randomly generated for online number-matching games. The games are free to play and award valuable prizes. For each game, the digits of the winning numbers are created by randomly selecting and sequentially displaying four videos of ten balls being mixed in a transparent chamber for about seven seconds each. One ball randomly separates itself from the others. Each ball is marked with a different digit. The videos are randomly selected from a pool of 100 different pre-recorded videos of digits being randomly generated. Each digit in said pool was randomly generated ten times. The bottom ramp of the mixing chamber vibrates to prevent balls from jamming. Play is limited to one game per day unless players click on ads.

Abstract: This invention comprises a method of attracting customers to retail businesses by conducting lucky number drawings on the business premises every ten minutes. Visitors can enter the drawings without purchasing or paying anything by scanning the 2D barcodes on their photo-ID documents, which can be issued by the merchant. System software uses the date of each scan and the decoded identification information represented by the barcode to prevent visitors from entering drawings more often than once a day. Entrants can select multiple four-digit numbers at selection stations. All entrants whose selected numbers become matched by the next randomly generated winning number receive valuable prizes if their faces match their photo-IDs.

Abstract: The current invention is an improvement to the random number generator described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,088,737. Random digits are generated by mixing ten differently colored balls in a transparent chamber. The entire surfaces of all the balls are uniformly colored and unmarked. None of the balls contains any electronic identification devices. A color sensor mounted near the settlement pocket of the mixing chamber emits data that is unique for each ball. A miniature computer and novel software correlate the data emitted for each of the ten balls with a different digit. One of the balls is randomly separated from the others and comes to rest near the color sensor without human intervention. The computer and its software record the digit that is correlated with the randomly separated ball and command a mini-projector to display the digit on the ball's surface in an upright position.

Abstract: The current invention is an improvement to the random number generator described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,088,737. Random digits are generated by mixing ten differently colored balls in a transparent chamber. The entire surfaces of all the balls are uniformly colored and unmarked. None of the balls contains any electronic identification devices. A color sensor mounted near the settlement pocket of the mixing chamber emits data that is unique for each ball. A miniature computer and novel software correlate the data emitted for each of the ten balls with a different digit. One of the balls is randomly separated from the others and comes to rest near the color sensor without human intervention. The computer and its software record the digit that is correlated with the randomly separated ball and command a mini-projector to display the digit on the ball's surface in an upright position.

Abstract: Coordinated simultaneous games of Draw Poker and Bingo are provided. The indicia in the bingo selection pool and on the bingo cards can be barcodes. The bingo card contains 52 spaces formed by 13 columns and 4 rows. Each space corresponds to a specific poker card, and contains one of the indicia in the selection pool. When indicia are randomly selected from the pool, the five poker cards that correspond to the bingo card spaces containing the first five indicia to become matched are displayed on touch-screen monitors. By touching a poker card image, a player can hold both the poker card and its corresponding bingo indicia for further play. The prize-paying patterns formed by matched indicia on the bingo card correspond to prize-paying poker hands.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for playing bingo having a prize structure which is based upon the true mathematical probabilities of forming pre-announced winning bingo patterns after each random bingo number is drawn and telecasting the mechanical random number generating process live, while simultaneously transceiving information interactively over the telephone or a global communications network, for example, the Internet. In this game, players are not required to assemble in one place. An unlimited number of players can participate simultaneously from different remote locations without changing any individual player's chances of winning.

Abstract: Apparatus for conveying articles along a path of travel, the articles being of the type having an upper portion for being supported by the apparatus, a lower portion for being suspended from the apparatus and a low-angle transition portion therebetween, the apparatus comprising in combination a conveyor defining a path of travel along its length with neck rails for receiving the upper portions of the article to be conveyed, a pressure source operatively coupled to the conveyor to move the received articles to be conveyed, and control brushes coupled with respect to the conveyor along at least a portion of the path of travel to contact the lower portions of the bottles while being moved for providing a rearwardly directed angle to the articles to thereby abate the forward and rearward swinging of the articles.

Abstract: A completely automatic, player operable, currency accepting instant lottery machine including a random number generator containing air-mixed balls which are marked on their surfaces with commonly recognized digits and also marked with a uniform pattern of bar code markings arranged in tall and narrow strips. After a mixing process, the balls which have randomly settled into the lower settlement pockets of the transparent random number generator are caused to rotate by jets of compressed air directed tangentially at their surfaces in opposite directions. Bar code scanning light pens located adjacent the settlement pockets and in close proximity to the rotating, randomly selected balls read the bar codes and transmit electronic signals to a computer in the machine which compares the randomly generated number to the player's previously selected number to determine if a successful match has occurred, in which case, a redeemable ticket is dispensed.

Abstract: A random number generating device for randomly selecting one of a plurality of suspendable balls which are stirred and circulated in a chamber by an upflowing fluid stream. Upon termination of fluid flow one of the balls falls downwardly through a relatively narrow bottom trough into a lower pocket having a transparent wall. The device is provided with steeply sloping inclined facing sidewalls flaring outwardly from said trough and sufficiently steep so that upon termination of fluid flow non-selected balls are out of contact with the selected ball as it falls from the trough into the pocket. Thereby, any jamming of non-selected balls occurs at an elevated level and does not prevent a single, randomly selected ball from entering the pocket at the end of each cycle.