System and method of displaying a reward selection and win-or-lose result on a terminal
AssigneeWin Amusement Group Pty Ltd
InventorWarren William Slattery
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Abstract
A method, a system and a machine for displaying a reward selection and win or lose results on a game machine including a display (1), the method including the steps of displaying a reward selection sequence on the display (1) to identify a playable reward, displaying an animated win or lose reward shot sequence on the display (1) to identify a win or lose result corresponding to the playable reward and displaying the win or lose result on the display (1).
Claims64
A method of displaying a reward selection and win-or-lose result on a game machine including a display, the method including the steps of:
- (a) displaying a reward selection sequence on the display to identify a playable reward;
- (b) displaying an animated win-or-lose reward shot sequence on the display to identify a win-or-lose result corresponding to the playable reward;
- and
- (c) displaying the win-or-lose result on the display.
A system for displaying a reward selection and win-or-lose result on a terminal, the system including:
- a display for:
- (a) displaying a reward selection sequence to identify a playable reward;
- (b) displaying an animated win-or-lose reward shot sequence to identify a win-or-lose result corresponding to the playable reward;
- and
- (c) displaying the win-or-lose result.
A method for allowing a participant in a promotion to determine if he, she or it has been awarded a prize, the method including:
- issuing the participant with an information carrier containing promotion information;
- providing a promotion terminal having a housing, an input device mounted to the housing, and a processor mounted to the housing for driving a display;
- interacting the information carrier with the input device such that the processor is provided access to the promotion information;
- and
- driving the display with the processor, in response to the information, to inform the participant whether or not he, she or it has been awarded the prize.
A promotion terminal for allowing a participant in a promotion to determine if he, she or it has been awarded a prize, wherein the participant has been issued with an information carrier containing promotion information, the terminal including:
- a housing;
- a display mounted to the housing;
- an input device mounted to the housing for interacting with the information carrier to determine the promotion information;
- and
- a processor mounted to the housing and being responsive to the promotion information for driving the display to inform the participant whether or not he, she or it has been awarded the prize.
An information carrier for issuing to a participant in a promotion, the promotion including the award of a plurality of prizes and the carrier including:
- a substrate;
- promotion information carried by the substrate in a first region for allowing the participant to determine if he, she or it has been awarded one of the prizes, the determination occurring through interacting the carrier with a terminal;
- prize information carried by the substrate in a respective plurality of second regions for displaying the nature of corresponding prizes;
- and
- a verification device for obscuring from view the prize information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.