Abstract: A dice game apparatus includes a gaming table having a generally horizonal plane surface forming a generally arcuate peripheral edge about which a plurality of players are located. A game board is displayed on an upper surface of the table with a board having designated thereon a first series of individual crap bet placing areas positioned in a repetitive pattern along a portion of the table extending along the arcuate peripheral edge. The dice game is played with a set of two casino dice having six faces and an additional third die enclosed in a shake container. The shake container is configured and adapted so that each of the dice randomly registers one of the faces after a shaking of the container. The shake dice game method includes a portion whereby the players make wagers in general accordance with the rules of craps on the faces registered by the casino dice after a shaking of the container.

Abstract: An agitator for generating a random number for use in an associated game. The inventive device includes a vehicle body supported by a plurality of wheels. A transparent dome is coupled to the vehicle body and encloses a pair of dice therewithin. A spring plate positioned beneath the dice oscillates in response to a movement of the vehicle wheels to agitate the dice to generate a random number.

Abstract: Apparatus for randomly manipulating and distributing one or a plurality of game pieces such as dice, marbles, coins or the like. In one construction, the game piece is contained within a closed housing having a plurality of apertures formed through side and end walls to support selectively positioned obstruction pieces which may be positioned by the players in a random or predetermined pattern to provide a plurality of passageways through which the game pieces must pass. In another construction, an open ended housing includes a game piece receiving portion, a player selectable directing portion and a randomizer portion including a plurality of obstruction pieces. In another construction, one or more coins may be semi-permanently contained within the housing. In still other constructions, the housing is constructed in halves, each of which contain integral obstruction pieces which define a plurality of passageways to a plurality of permanently contained game pieces.

Abstract: A lockable dice cup for use in games of chance. The dice cup is comprised of a transparent cylindrical wall which attaches a receiver base to form a chamber for containing the dice. A locking mechanism is provided and comprises a tamperproof set screw having an end which lockably engages the cylindrical wall to capture the dice within the chamber and thereby prevent unauthorized dismounting of the wall from the receiver base.

Abstract: Apparatus for randomly manipulating and distributing one or a plurality of game pieces such as dice, marbles, coins or the like. In one construction, the game piece is contained within a closed housing having a plurality of apertures formed through side and end walls to support selectively positioned obstruction pieces which may be positioned by the players in a random or predetermined pattern to provide a plurality of passageways through which the game pieces must pass. In another construction, an open ended housing includes a game piece receiving portion, a player selectable directing portion and a randomizer portion including a plurality of obstruction pieces. In another construction, one or more coins may be semipermanently contained within the housing. In still other constructions, the housing is constructed in halves, each of which contain integral obstruction pieces which define a plurality of passageways to a plurality of permanently contained game pieces.

Abstract: A board game providing a random letter selection tray holding a plurality of cubes, each cube displaying at least one letter, the plurality of cubes is shaken in the tray displacing the cubes randomly, whereupon after shaking ceases the letters fall into two columns divided into a plurality of rows. The game players must independently recognize known persons who correspond to the randomly selected initials read across the two columns by individual rows and mark down the persons on each players's game card. The game is timed and multiple players compete with the score based on the number of famous personage which each player can match to the randomly selected initial groupings. Alternate embodiments provide for balls to replace cubes, and cubes having a plurality of different letters, one letter on each face of each cube.

Abstract: A device for scrambling dice and the like includes a pair of housing bodies which collectively define a generally vertical chute for directing dice from an upper entryway to a lower discharge opening. A door is attached adjacent to a lower edge of the discharge opening and is pivotable between a first position wherein the door closes the discharge opening, and a second position wherein the door provides a ramp for directing dice falling downwardly through the chute away from the housing through the discharge opening. A plurality of pins and baffles extending into the chute deflect dice falling downwardly through the chute. In one embodiment, the pins may be removed and repositioned as desired. The housing bodies are further configured to provide a closed container for the dice to facilitate shipping and storage of the dice within the dice scrambler.

Abstract: A numeral toy comprising a container divided into an upper chamber and a lower chamber with a separating board having a plurality of through holes. The interior of the container is filled with a liquid and a plurality of small numbered balls are normally kept in the lower chamber. When playing with this toy, the container is reversed upside down, so that numbered balls float up through the through holes in the separating board and stop under the top board of the container.

Abstract: A dice game unit for playing games by casting a die having a magnet mounted therein and adapted to indicate a particular number of spot(s) on the top thereof after being cast onto a game board arranged to generate a magnetic field. The game unit comprises a plunger for casting a die onto a game board; a plate for recovering the die which has been cast on the game board; a die receiver for receiving the recovered die; and a conveyor for conveying the dice. This dice conveyor is comprised of a belt which is wound around rollers and rotatively driven by a motor. The belt has die holding plates mounted at plurality of places thereon. Each of the die holding plates is arranged to be opened and closed so that it may seize a die from the die receiver.

Abstract: It consists of a hollow, transparent prismatic-rectangular body open at one of its bases at which a cover is positioned, having a plurality of internal partitions forming compartments in which respective dice are housed, which cover can in no way be uncoupled from the mouth of the body without destroying the game, so that the dice cannot be manipulated directly by hand, but only by shaking the cover-body assembly. Nevertheless, the cover is displaceable towards the bottom of the body to a full locking position for the dice, in order to maintain a determined combination thereof, subject to a prize, stable, this locking position being secured with the help of means which locks the cover in opposition to springs which tend to house it in the body mouth.

Abstract: There is provided a new and useful game apparatus comprising a container and a lid therefor, the container having therein a shaker section and a shelf section; the shelf section substantially isolated from the shaker section when the lid is in position on the container and having a bottom which is spaced a predetermined distance from the top of the container such that, when the lid is in place, a die lying on the shelf is restrained against movement when the apparatus is shaken. In one embodiment the apparatus includes an integral illumination system for illuminating the interior of the container. In another embodiment the lid is hingedly connected to the container and includes a pair of protruding webs extending downwardly from the lid adjacent the hinged connection, the webs extending into the container when the lid is in the closed position, and blocking a lateral line of vision into the container when the lid is in the open position.

Abstract: A housing contains a plurality of tetrahedron shaped dice. The faces of the dice bear one or more indicia. The housing includes a tumbling compartment in which all of the dice are shaken and a smaller plurality of pyramidal shaped cavities in which certain of the dice are then disposed for viewing. At least a portion of one face of each die is visible through the wall of the housing in one embodiment, while at least a portion of two faces of each die is visible in another embodiment.

Abstract: In the game of Liar's Dice, a unique gaming box is used including a first closed compartment, a second shaking compartment, and a third holding compartment. The first closed compartment has a number of dice permanently sealed therein, such that when the box is shaken a continuous rattling of dice is audible. This allows a player to taken any of the active dice in the shaking compartment and place them in the holding compartment. When the box is shaken, the other players cannot audibly discern how many of the active dice are being shaken at one time.

Abstract: A game apparatus can be releasably or permanently secured to a gaming table in such a way as to pivotally support a hollow, transparent container or other gambling unit for swinging movement across the table. The container is journaled at the end of a pivotal support arm so that each player in turn can rotate or tumble the dice in the container and permit the container to coast to a stop with the dice resting on the lower interior of the container. Odd-sided dice are preferably employed in combination with a mirrored surface beneath the lower interior end of the container so that the numbers on the dice, when the container comes to rest, are reflected by the mirrored surface for ease of reading by the players. In a modified form, a braking mechanism is employed to retard tumbling or rotation of the container or other gambling unit so as to reduce the time required for the container or unit to come to a complete stop.

Abstract: A random number selector is disclosed having a body generally in the form of a plate having three axially extending vertically spaced rectangular chambers formed in it. The three chambers are spaced from one another by a top generally rectangular part, two spaced intermediate parts and a bottom rectangular part, third rectangular parts extending from one side to the other. End parts closing the three chambers. The top of each rectangular part forming a shelf having half cylindrical shaped recesses. The recesses are adjacent one another so that the half cylindrical parts each engage the adjacent part so that the edge of each chamber has a sharp top edge. A transparent cover is supported over the front of the body and six red balls are received in the top chamber, four yellow balls in the intermediate chamber and three green balls in the lower chamber. A wedge shaped bead overlies the recesses and prevents the balls from rolling out when the selector is tilted back.

Abstract: A dice shaker having a hinged cover provided on its lowered surface with an L-shaped partition which delimites an enclosed space when the lid is closed. The cross-section of the space corresponds to the cross-section of a die in order to limit or hinder the rotation of the dice located inside that space.

Abstract: A game apparatus consisting of a housing, the interior of the housing has electrical wiring and a power switch including a switching means, for starting and stopping a toy motor. The motor being coupled to spin a multi-disk assembly. The disks are divided into sectors and each sector as a symbol marking printed thereon. When the switching means causes the motor to spin, the disks free-spin around the motor shaft. When the switching means disconnect the motor from the electrical power source, the disks coast to a stop. An indicating means designates two random symbols in alignment.The random symbol generator in conjunction with a multiplication type game board is used as a "non-problem solving" educational game.In an another embodiment, the random symbol generator is used in conjunction with a marble operated switching means, wherein a marble is aimed at a target opening, its entrance into the target opening closes the switching means, thereby causing the multi-disk symbol generator to spin.

Abstract: A board game wherein two participants or two teams with two or more participants each team, compete in moving a plurality of simulated baseball players, in a simulated baseball game, with the bases, first, second and third and the home plate with the batter position with a special plastic device with a die and a small ball inside and the pitcher position with a special plastic device with two dice inside, both devices are designed to make different moves in the game. Two groups of cards with regulations for the moves of the simulated baseball players in the game. A plurality of plastic pieces simulating the ball thrown by the pitcher. A plastic device for the umpires' decisions with a die inside used by the participants in the game.

Abstract: A device for randomly selecting numbers, having particular utility with respect to state run lottery games, comprises a substantially square base including an upper surface having a first group with 40 recessed sections, a second group with 36 recessed sections, and third through sixth groups each with 10 recessed sections; four supports at the four corners on the underside of the base for imparting energy to the balls when the device is dropped onto a surface and for supporting the base; 16 balls, 6 of which are engageable within any of the recessed sections of the first group, six of which are engageable within any of the recessed sections of the second group, and the remaining four of which are engageable within any of the recessed sections of the third through sixth groups, respectively; at least one divider integrally formed with the upper surface of the base for preventing each ball associated with one of the groups from associating with the recessed sections of any other one of the groups; a transparen

Abstract: A portable hand held apparatus for randomly selecting by chance a plurality of numbers particularly suitable for lottery selections. A plurality of buoyant cubes are contained in the fluid tight generally opaque container. The container has a window for viewing a predetermined number of the cubes temporarily trapped and arranged adjacent the window after agitating the container by a user. A cube receiving channel is formed within the container adjacent the window for releasably trapping a desired number of cubes adjacent the window. The fluid and buoyant cubes provide a pleasing movement of the cubes within the container when agitated by the user and randomly come to rest adjacent the viewing window.

Abstract: A cryptographic game and apparatus therefor, including an encrypting box with a plurality alphabetically labeled compartments, a plurality of alphabetically labeled members adapted to be randomly placed in the compartments, a first pad of sheets containing messages to be encrypted, and a second pad of sheets employed by players to decipher the message.

Abstract: A variable dice game device which is particularly useful as a random number generator comprises a closed hollow transparent body member of generally rectangular shape and having three transparent partitions therein dividing the interior into four rectangular compartments with a ten-sided die freely movable in each of said compartments.

Abstract: A game for simulated fortune-telling including a closed, pyramidal container with transparent faces permitting observation of the interior of the container and including dice enclosed therein for producing numerical combinations from the faces thereof referencing pre-determined statements of prediction or fortune. The game is used by tumbling the dice within the container interior and allowing them to come to rest on a base surface which is decorated with artwork relating to pyramid power symbols or the like. Various statements of fortune are identified in a numerical sequence which corresponds to the various combinations of numerical values represented on the faces of the dice.

Abstract: A novelty game drinking glass for containing beverages as well as entertaining, amusing and interesting the user. The glass itself has a transparent partition positioned upwardly from the bottom end to form a bottom recess portion at the bottom end. A novelty game is positioned into this bottom recess so as to be visible by a user through the transparent partition and the novelty game is restrainably positioned on the bottom by a recess closure which also provide a liquid-tight seal to the bottom recess portion.

Abstract: The device includes an helical thread cylinder, a sequence of elements of information being placed between said helical threads.A ring cooperating with the helical threads in the same way as a nut is fitted with a window, through which a selected element of information appears. Such a device can be used in games of snakes and ladders type.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dice shaker assembly and more particularly to a die channel therefor wherein the particular die channel includes a channel enclosure and a die contained therein. The die channel is designed with voids such that the die will not lodge between the wall structure of the channel enclosure as it moves from a shaking and tumbling end to a receiving end where the die is closely surrounded by the side wall structure of the channel enclosure and rests within a receiving end of the channel.

Abstract: A board game of skill which has an upper transparent stationary surface, a transparent first movable underlying member with a partial direction-movement pattern, a lower opaque second underlying movable member which has a complimentary partial direction-movement pattern in one of a number of varied positions. The uppermost stationary transparent surface is provided with peg holes for moving pegs or pieces along color coded allowed direction-movement patterns formed by the two movable underlying members. Selection of the underlying member position to determine the alignment of the partial direction-movement patterns and the number of movements allowed is determined from random selection dice mounted in a centrally supported revolvable dice box.

Abstract: A wave simulator including an enclosed receptacle filled with non-mixing liquids so that tipping of the receptacle simulates wave action and incorporating at least one flexible diaphragm that flexes to prevent excessive liquid pressure buildup within the receptacle while also maintaining the interior of the receptacle completely filled by the liquids. The receptacle has a two-piece construction injection molded from clear polycarbonate plastic and includes a unitary bottom wall and an upper wall member having unitary top, side, and end walls. Edges of the bottom wall are secured to the side and end walls of the upper wall member and an intermediate portion thereof includes a pair of openings which respectively receive a pair ofthe diaphragms. One preferred construction of the diaphragm includes annular steps that extend upwardly so as to be flexible downwardly to accommodate for liquid expansion.

Abstract: A device for mixing one or more dice, used in a game including a container whose interior is divided into a display chamber and a mixing chamber by an interior partition. Mixed dice are passed one at a time through a slot in the partition from the mixing to the display chamber and prevented from returning by a slidable closure within the interior of the container to hold the mixed dice captive so they can be displayed to participants of the game.

Abstract: An amusement device, such as a die agitator, includes a closed liquid tight container having opposed end portions and a partition member located therein which divides the container into first and second chambers, with the first chamber being of greater volume than the second chamber. The partition member has an opening formed therein providing communication between the chambers and liquid fills the first chamber and a portion of the second leaving an air space or bubble in the second chamber. A buoyant game piece or die provided in the first chamber is used in the play of the game. The bubble in the second chamber accomodates expansion of the liquid in the container but is trapped in the second container so that it does not enter the first chamber.

Abstract: A die for use in a liquid filled die agitator is formed from a foldable, initially flat sheet having a plurality of discreet sections respectively adapted to define facets of the die. The sheet sections are integrally formed with one another and each is joined to at least one adjacent section by an integral foldable joint, with the sections being arrayed in a predetermined pattern so that upon folding about their associated joints, the sections will form the facets of the die. Cooperating recesses and mating posts on at least some of the sheet sections secure the sections together in the folded configuration to complete the die, while guide pins on at least some of these sections guide the sections into mating relation with one another during the folding operation.