Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for electronic gaming are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method is implemented on an electronic gaming system and includes initiating, by a game controller and in response to a primary game outcome of a wagering game, a bonus game. The method also includes displaying, by the game controller and in response to the initiating, a path, where the path includes a plurality of locations, and displaying, by the game controller, a wheel, where the wheel includes a plurality of stop positions. The method includes, in addition, selecting, by the game controller, a first stop position of the plurality of stop positions of the wheel, and advancing, by the game controller, an animated character on the path by a first number of locations corresponding to the first stop position.

Abstract: A method and a system to provide a medium for personal wagering for sporting or non-sporting events. Users wager against each other, for any event. Users can make their own odds and handicaps. Users pre-select events and price-range for wagering. Alerts are automatically distributed to users informing them of available wager offers. Funds are received and distributed to the winners.

Abstract: A unique game called Lightyear is described which is about space in which players play games of strategy, rescue, conquest, discovery, trivia and the like. The game may be realized as a board game as well as a computer game playable on one computer or using a network of computers connected using Internet or other wired or wireless networks. The board game version of Lightyear comprises of a game board with all the planets of the solar system drawn and laid out in a unique way on the board around the sun. The game board further comprises of one or more orbits around the sun. The orbits may be oval or circular or any other shape. There may be connectors between the orbits. The players play the specific version of the game on this board with play astronauts and play spaceships.

Abstract: A board game comprising: a board having marked thereon a plurality of positions representing features in a real and/or imaginary region of space and with paths between the positions. A number of playing pieces are provided for use by the respective players for movement along the paths in accordance with rules of the game. A randomly operable indicating means, such as dice, determines moves which may be made by the playing pieces. Randomly selectable indicating means, such as cards, are associated with at least some of the positions on the board for determining further factors associated with movement of the playing pieces. means for generating ramdom code and collecting of code by players to win the game.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a boardgame, which is use by a number of game players, simulates an outer space alien chasing crewmembers about a spaceship. The game includes a gameboard, six player pieces, six player cards, an alien piece, 58 alien cards, 60 crew assignment cards and a pair of dice.

Abstract: A golf putter composed of transparent or translucent material with a raised opaque central portion and a clear heel and toe. The width of the central portion approximates the diameter of a golf ball. The distance from the ball striking surface to the heel and toe weights is considerable, it is greater than the radius of a golf ball. The weights are placed far enough behind the ball striking surface to be outside the focused area. When the golfer aligns the putter with the ball, the putter head appears to be a single line with a width approximately equal to the diameter of a golf ball and a depth greater than the radius of a golf ball. The clear heel and toe provide maximum contrast to the central portion, enabling the golfer to maintain focus on the center of the head throughout the stroke. This improves the golfer's ability to visualize the movement of the putter relative to the "target line".

Abstract: A game apparatus where one to three players race their space ships from their respective bases to their respective outposts via a radial graph. Players choose one of two modes of travel (conventional space travel or the wormhole space travel system) at each turn in order to best reach their respective goals. For conventional space travel, the difference in the numbers showing after the roll of the dice provide positive numbers which enable a player to move their ships in any desired direction within a radial graph, or negative numbers which require a player to move their ships inward, towards and into the black hole and back to base. Wormhole travel enables a player to instantaneously move a ship from any one of six positions on the graph to one of those same six spots. The first player to get all of their ships in their outpost wins.

Abstract: A board game is based on trivia associated with STAR TREK. The game provides a plurality of knockdown models representing the Enterprise. Each model has a game piece which doubles as a base of the model. Players start by moving their game pieces along a selected playing path towards a selected destination area according to the roll of dice. Upon landing on a destination space, a player must pick a trivia card and answer a question corresponding to the destination space landed on. If the answer is correct, the player is awarded a model portion and checks off the appropriate category represented on the destination area on a category card checklist. Players continue collecting the model portions and assembling them on their game piece while moving from destination to destination. The first person to obtain all model portions of the ENTERPRISE and returns to earth wins the game. Various penalties and detours are included in the game.

Abstract: An entertaining board game for pre-school-age children and children in the primary grades. The board game comprises a path of globe shaped spaces having a starting point and an ending point. Each globe shaped space is distinguished by a color or a picture depicted thereon. Corresponding to the globe shaped spaces are playing cards each either having a colored globe, a picture, or a colored globe and picture thereon. Players move by selecting by chance a card, matching the color of the globe or picture on the card with a corresponding globe shaped space and moving to the appropriate globe shaped space according to the rules. Thus, the game is designed to introduce outer space through color matching and picture matching. Rhymes and mythology as stated on certain cards is also introduced giving the child a unique experience or adventure on the pictured places as pictured on the playing cards, but it is not necessary to read in order to play the game.

Abstract: A game apparatus representing space travel between the earth and moon. The game apparatus comprises a game board having a representation of the earth and moon wherein a plurality of concentric orbits are positioned about the earth and one orbit is positioned about the moon. A plurality of movement paths are provided that connect the earth and its closest orbit, the earth orbits themselves and the moon and its orbit. Movement paths are utilized that connect the outer earth orbit to the moon orbit. The game also includes certain orbit escape spaces and orbit change spaces that allow players to move from one movement path to another. A chance device, instruction cards and player pieces are also provided.

Abstract: A board game apparatus which includes a plurality of player tokens, a random number generator, and a board having a multiplicity of playing spaces which cooperatively define at least one endless main path and a multiplicity of path branches leading off from the main path. The branches end in a circular subpath having a plurality of subspaces which surround an area subject to exclusive player control and certain of the subspaces permit access of a player's token to the area to permit exclusive appropriation thereof. The game is specifically intended to simulate a space exploration race.

Abstract: A game apparatus simulating interplanetary space travel includes: a planar playing board having a first circuitous path of player movement around the periphery of the playing board and a plurality of player landing sites or areas therealong representing various charted and identifiable locations and events which may occur along the way, and a second circuitous inner, chance determined alternate path of player movement intersecting said first path at a plurality of spaced points and having a plurality of player landing sites therealong representing events which may occur in unexplored and often hostile locations; a segmented, multi-purpose, chance instructional dial with a conventional spinner device randomly determines player movement or events which occur along the first and second paths of travel according to printed indicia within the individual segments of the dial. Instructions for further spaceship movement or player action are printed on each of the aforementioned player landing sites.

Abstract: A space travel game with game board having a primary path of movement and auxiliary paths connected with the primary path. A spinner apparatus is divided into numbered pie-shaped wedges of alternating colors and controls the amount and direction of travel. The paths comprise interconnected series of blocks, the blocks being grouped into alternating series of different colors. The pointer of the spinner indicates the number of blocks to be traveled and the color of the path to be taken upon reaching an intersection of a primary path with an auxiliary path. Game pieces shaped in the form of spaceships, different groups of cards, and a separate chance control device are involved in the playing of the game.