Abstract: When awarding of a locally-incremented prize or a jackpot prize takes place in a chance-based gaming system, first there may be joy for the player who won but then there is a sense of lost opportunity for remaining other players as they come to realize at that moment that they have lost the opportunity to win that same prize and instead they must start all over in re-building a comparable prize amount. The notion of having to start from ground zero and build all the way up again may discourage some and induce them to walk away from the gaming machines. Methods are disclosed where the post-award prize reset amounts displayed to the remaining other players are not easily recognizable or attention attracting patterns that may induce the remaining other players to immediately recognize that a reset event has occurred, become disheartened and walk away.

Abstract: When awarding of a locally-incremented prize or a jackpot prize takes place in a chance-based gaming system, first there may be joy for the player who won but then there is a sense of lost opportunity for remaining other players as they come to realize at that moment that they have lost the opportunity to win that same prize and instead they must start all over in re-building a comparable prize amount. The notion of having to start from ground zero and build all the way up again may discourage some and induce them to walk away from the gaming machines. Methods are disclosed where the post-award prize reset amounts displayed to the remaining other players are not easily recognizable or attention attracting patterns that may induce the remaining other players to immediately recognize that a reset event has occurred, become disheartened and walk away.

Abstract: Mixtures of at least two water-insoluble monoazo dyestuffs of the formula: ##STR1## wherein D is the residue of a diazo component of the benzene series free from sulphonic acid and carboxyl groups which may be substituted with one or more optionally substituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkyl, acyloxy, alkylcarbonyl and/or alkoxycarbonyl groups and/or one halogen atom, R is hydrogen, halogen or an optionally substituted alkoxy group and A is an aromatic radical which may be substituted with one or two optionally substituted alkyl and/or alkoxy groups and/or one halogen atom, can be used for the coloration of textile materials consisting at least partly of linear, aromatic polyesters. The melting points of these mixtures are lower than those of their individual dyestuff components, preferably lower than 200.degree. or 180.degree. C.