Abstract: A gaming apparatus comprising a plurality of gaming machines is provided. Each machine can be operated individually, the player upon each start of the machine endeavouring to reach a predetermined objective by his skill in propelling a ball into apertures to reach a predetermined total before a counting device in the machine which is started upon starting of the machine, reaches that total. The player thus competes against the machine in individual operation thereof. In the embodiment described the counting device is a clock hand which sweeps across a clock face. The players performance is indicated by a clock hand sweeping across the same clock face. The clock face and both hands are visible to the player to provide excitement.All of the machines can be ganged so that the players play against each other, but in this case the counting devices of the respective machines are rendered inoperative and the winner is the first player to make his clock hand reach the predetermined total.

Abstract: The machine is a coin operated gaming machine wherein at each play random number display devices is actuated a plurality of times and a number corresponding to the number displayed by the random display device at each actuation is illuminated in a display matrix of the machine containing all numbers, the objective being at each play to win by illuminating a row of numbers or the four corner numbers in the display matrix. Winnings are in the form of tokens dispensed from the machine and the tokens can be exchanged for gifts contained in a display case forming part of the machine casing.

Abstract: Amusement equipment relies on horses or other objects to traverse a course (tracks each 10, 11, 12) for each game and produce a winner. An electronic control unit (ECV) provides intermittent drive signals for such course traversal so that control over a first part of the course is by means (20) producing unpredictability, and control over a final part of the course is by means (21) that preselects the winner also on an unpredictable basis. Individual probabilities of winning can be imposed by stored information (28), particularly where payouts are made of corresponding odds via player stations (110) at desired positions. The player stations will receive control information via a data transmitter (115) and connection system (116).