EP0464935A1 - Spielvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0464935A1
EP0464935A1 EP91201662A EP91201662A EP0464935A1 EP 0464935 A1 EP0464935 A1 EP 0464935A1 EP 91201662 A EP91201662 A EP 91201662A EP 91201662 A EP91201662 A EP 91201662A EP 0464935 A1 EP0464935 A1 EP 0464935A1
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Steven Rouvoet
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/06—Lottos or bingo games; Systems, apparatus or devices for checking such games
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/326—Game play aspects of gaming systems
    • G07F17/3262—Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/34—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

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  • the invention relates to a gaming device provided with at least one field on which signs are provided, said signs being arranged in columns of signs located one above the other and in rows of signs located side by side, and with a number of setting means arranged side by side, which setting means can be set in action by means of a control mechanism to be operated by a player, so as to activate certain signs in the field.
  • a similar device is known from GB-A-2137392, said device being provided with setting means formed by three rollers arranged side by side, said setting means each being provided with a number of signs, whereby at least one of said signs is located opposite a window after the rollers, subsequent to having been set rotating, have come to a standstill, in such a manner that a number of signs located side by side in a row is then visible through said window, whereby the number of signs visible through said window corresponds with the number of rollers arranged side by side. Furthermore the device is provided with a main field, which comprises the five columns of signs located one above the other as well as two auxiliary fields each comprising three columns of signs located one above the other.
  • the signs which are visible in the window after the rollers or the setting means have come to a standstill are illuminated in the main field, and possibly also in one or both auxiliary fields, if the signs in question also occur in the auxiliary fields. When certain combinations of illuminated fields occur prizes will be paid out. There is not any correlation between the arrangement of the rollers and the signs. In particular for the unpractised player such a system is inconveniently arranged, so that such a gaming device has little attraction for the untrained player.
  • a gaming device having two rollers or setting means provided with signs and a field provided with five columns arranged side by side comprising further signs located one above the other, said signs corresponding with a combination of signs which, when the rollers are stationary, are visible through a window on the two rollers located side by side.
  • a sign in the field is illuminated, which corresponds with the combination of the signs which are visible through the window after the rollers have come to a standstill.
  • a certain combination of illuminated signs in the field has been obtained a prize may be paid out.
  • Such a gaming device appears to be less attractive for the players, since the eventual result, whether or not a prize, is rather long in coming.
  • GB-A-1,591,623 discloses a usual, so-called fruit machine comprising three drums provided with signs. As an extra this machine is provided with a field comprising a number of columns, which is considerably larger than the number of rollers. Said columns contain signs which also occur on the rollers when corresponding signs are visible through the window after the rollers have come to a standstill. Also this version is inconveniently arranged, in particular for the unpractised player.
  • the object of the invention is to obtain a gaming device of the above kind having a simple and efficient construction, so that also an unpractised player will soon acquire an understanding of the operation of the machine, whilst the element of surprise, and thus the intended tension for the player, is still maintained.
  • the setting means are formed by rotatable rollers having signs on their peripheries, said rollers being rotatable about a horizontal axis, whereby at least one sign of each roller is visible through a window when the rollers have come to a standstill, in such a manner that a number of signs located side by side in a row is then visible through the window, which signs correspond with the signs which are at that moment activated in the field.
  • This is the configuration of such a gaming device that has been usual so far.
  • the gaming device shown in Figure 1 comprises a casing 1, whereby five rotatable means or rollers 2 - 6 are accommodated in said casing in the illustrated embodiment. Said rotatable rollers are thereby independently rotatable in a usual manner, about a common axis of rotation.
  • the rollers may e.g. be set rotating by a player by means of one or more control knobs 7 provided on the casing. Once the rollers have been set rotating said rollers will come to a standstill again, in a manner which may or may not be influenced by the player.
  • each of the rotatable rollers 2 - 6 signs are provided, in this case in the shape of numerals placed within encircled areas.
  • the arrangement of said signs provided on the circumference of the drums 2 - 6 located side by side is shown in an opened-out form.
  • each field comprises five columns of signs located side by side, said signs being arranged in three rows located one above the other.
  • each roller will only activate the signs in a certain column of a field.
  • the roller located furthest to the left will only activate signs in the columns in the fields 8 - 10 located furthest to the left, i.e. that the sign visible through the window in question after the roller 2 has come to a standstill will exclusively be activated in one of the fields if said sign occurs in the column of said fields located furthest to the left.
  • roller 6 located furthest to the right will only activate signs in the columns of the fields 8, 9 and 10 located furthest to the right, whilst in a corresponding manner the rollers located between the rollers 3 - 5 located between the rollers 2 and 6 will only activate signs in the columns correspondingly located in the fields between the columns located furthest to the left and those located furthest to the right.
  • the drums When the control mechanism of the device is put into operation by a player by means of a control knob 7, the drums will thus be set rotating and subsequently come to a standstill again, whereby in the illustrated embodiment five signs located side by side on the drum will be visible.
  • the visible signs in question present on the drum occur in the columns in the fields 8 - 10 coupled to the drums in question, the relevant signs in the fields will be activated, e.g. light up.
  • a number of points or a prize will be awarded when three signs located side by side are activated in one field, whilst a larger number of points casu quo a larger prize can be awarded when four or five signs located side by side are activated in one field.
  • the construction may be selected such that, whether or not to be influenced by the player, in all three fields 8 - 10 the signs corresponding with the signs visible on the stationary drum are activated simultaneously or that this only takes place for each field individually. In the latter case it is e.g.
  • the construction according to the present invention is also very well suitable for playing bingo with larger companies.
  • it will e.g. be possible, as is diagrammatically shown in Figure 3, to arrange a number of such devices 11 in a hall, whereby every device has a chair 12 for a player.
  • the devices will thereby be provided with fields having mutually different combinations of signs.
  • a number of such possible fields a - h are shown in Figure 4.
  • the setting means of the gaming devices 11 will be interconnected, so that the setting means of all devices 11 activate the same signs in the columns coupled to the setting means in question when said signs occur in the fields of the associated gaming device.
  • the interconnected machines 11 may e.g. be activated at set intervals by a host or by an automatically operating mechanism.
  • a set of rollers 13 comprising rollers 2 - 6, electronically operating setting means or the like, corresponding with the rollers 2 - 6 described with reference to the first embodiment.
  • With each game said rollers will show a certain combination of signs on a so-called winning line 14.
  • Near the set of rollers 13 there may also be arranged a screen 15, on which all numerals occurring on the rollers are arranged in numerical order, whereby in this field the numerals which correspond with the numerals on the winning line are activated, e.g. by being illuminated.
  • the players sitting at the gaming devices 11 can thus compare the winning numbers, by means of the set of rollers 13 and the field of numbers 15, with the numbers activated on their gaming devices.
  • a tv-camera in order to record the winning numbers and/or possibly the field 15, whereby said tv-camera may be coupled to a number of monitors 17 arranged in the playing room, so that all players may watch the set of rollers 13 and/or the field 15 via the monitors without any effort.
  • Each gaming device 11 may be provided with means for recording whether or not the player has won. Furthermore each device may be provided with means which enable the player to decide whether or not to take part in a certain game.

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