Game business method and device
OwnerAdolf Weiglinventor
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Abstract
A sales-inducement business method which preferably uses a roulette wheel provided by merchants for their customers to play for having charges paid by the customers for goods and services refunded by the merchant if the customers win the game. Described as preferred games are miniature roulette games having horizontal roulette wheels 13 rotatable in horizontal roulette tables 14 and optionally vertical roulette wheels 21 rotatable in vertical roulette tables 22.
Claims22
A game business method comprised of the following steps:
- a merchant selling goods or services to a customer;
- the customer paying the merchant a bill for the goods or services;
- the merchant communicating to the customer an offer to refund the bill if the customer plays and wins a game provided by the merchant;
- the customer deciding whether to accept or to decline the offer;
- the customer accepting the offer;
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- the customer playing the game either winning or losing the refund of the bill.
A miniature roulette game comprising:
- a horizontal roulette wheel that is rotatable centrally on a horizontal roulette table;
- the horizontal roulette wheel having 37 or more ball depressions placed circumferentially proximate an outside perimeter of the horizontal roulette wheel;
- the ball depressions being articulated to contain a bottom portion of a roulette ball sufficiently to allow the roulette ball contained in a ball depression to be hurled radially from the ball depression by rotation of the horizontal roulette wheel at a predetermined speed of rotation;
- the horizontal roulette table having a ball rail with a circumferential inside periphery having a height to prevent radial escape of the roulette ball that is hurled from the ball depression of the horizontal roulette wheel by rotation of the horizontal roulette wheel;
- the horizontal roulette table being tapered predeterminedly downward and inward to proximate the outside perimeter of the horizontal roulette wheel;
- the horizontal roulette wheel being tapered predeterminedly downward and outward from a central position on the horizontal roulette wheel to proximate the ball depressions;
- the horizontal roulette wheel being tapered predeterminedly downward and inward from the outside perimeter of the horizontal roulette wheel to the ball depressions;
- the horizontal roulette wheel being arched circumferentially intermediate the ball depressions;
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- a wheel rotator with which the horizontal roulette wheel is rotatable.
A miniature roulette game comprising:
- a vertical roulette wheel that is rotational on a horizontal axis proximate a center of a vertical roulette table;
- the vertical roulette wheel having eleven or more sleeve ball depressions in an inside periphery of a horizontal sleeve that is extended horizontally forward from the vertical roulette wheel;
- the sleeve ball depressions being articulated to allow the roulette ball to come to rest in a bottommost sleeve ball depression when the vertical wheel is not rotating;
- a transparent window on a front end of the horizontal sleeve;
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- a wheel rotator with which the vertical roulette wheel is rotatable.
A game played by a person with no chance of loss of money and the chance of winning money including games played with darts and with dice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.