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US 2007/0178956 A1Published application
Game apparatus
AssigneeScientiffic Games Royalty Corporation
InventorsKenneth Irwin, Gary Streeter
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Abstract
Described is a player activated game system, particularly adapted for playing instant lottery type games, that includes a game device having a computer containing at least one game, an electronic display and a card interface adapted to receive a game card having data that represents a particular game outcome such that connection of the card to the interface can result the game being played by the device with the particular outcome displayed on the display.
Claims20
A game apparatus comprising:
- an electronic game device including a computer, a display operatively connected to said computer, a game card interface operatively connected to said computer, and at least one game programmed in said computer wherein said game has a plurality of selectable, predetermined outcomes;
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- a game card including game information specifying one of said predetermined game outcomes adapted for connection with said interface wherein connection of said game card to said interface permits a player to initiate play of said game with the predetermined outcome of said specified one of said predetermined outcomes being displayed on said display;
- wherein said game information on said game card is contained in printed conductive elements.
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A lottery game apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of electronic game devices each including a computer, a display operatively connected to said computer, a game card interface operatively connected to said computer, and wherein each of said devices includes a game programmed in said computer wherein said game has a plurality of selectable, predetermined outcomes;
- a set of game cards wherein each of said cards in said set includes data representing a selected one of said game outcomes and wherein different ones of said cards in said set have different ones of said data representing different ones of said outcomes, said data is printed in the form of circuit elements on said cards in conductive ink;
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- wherein said cards are adapted for connection with said interface thereby permitting a player to initiate play of said game on said device resulting in said computer generating the selected one of said predetermined outcomes represented by said data on said card connected to said interface and wherein said one of said outcomes is displayed on said display.
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A lottery game apparatus comprising:
- an electronic game device having a housing and included in said housing:
- a computer, a display operatively connected to said computer, a game card interface operatively connected to said computer, a power source, a switch operatively connected between said computer and said power source and at least one game programmed in said computer wherein said game has a plurality of selectable, predetermined winning amounts;
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- a game card having a substrate including data specifying one of said winning amounts, according to a predetermined prize structure, printed in the form of conductive elements on said substrate and wherein said card is adapted for connection with said interface such that connection of said game card to said interface and operation of said switch permits a player to operate said device to play said game with said specified winning amount being displayed on said display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.