Game machine
AssigneeElaut USA, Inc.
InventorJack Guarnieri
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Abstract
A game machine comprises a housing, a user access panel having a controller, a money acceptor and a redemption dispenser that dispenses an award, a rotating field having a surface with a plurality of objects situated thereon, a retriever that is movable along a track that is supported by the housing for enabling movement of the retriever relative to the rotating field, an object return path having an object receiving area, a delivery guide, and an outlet, wherein an award is dispensed from the redemption dispenser upon the retriever retrieving an object from the rotating field and delivering it to the object receiving area.
Claims20
A game machine comprising:
- a) a housing and a redemption dispenser that dispenses an award;
- b) a movable field having a surface with a plurality of objects situated thereon;
- c) a retriever that is movable along a track that is supported by the housing for enabling movement of the retriever relative to the movable field;
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- d) an object return path having an object receiving area and an outlet;
- e) wherein an award that is not the same as the object retrieved by the retriever is dispensed from the redemption dispenser upon the retriever retrieving an object from the movable field and delivering it to the object return path for return of the object to the movable field through the outlet.
A method of playing a game comprising:
- a) retrieving an object from a plurality of objects located on a rotating field using a retriever and delivering the retrieved object to an object return path;
- b) receiving an award upon the retrieved object being received in the object return path;
- c) wherein the award is not the same as the retrieved object;
- d) wherein the retrieved object is returned to the field upon exiting the object return path;
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- e) repeating steps (a) through (d) for a predetermined period of time.
A game machine comprising:
- a) a housing, a timer and a redemption dispenser that dispenses an award;
- b) a rotating field having a surface with a plurality of objects situated thereon;
- c) a magnetic retriever movable along a track that is supported by the housing for movement of the magnetic retriever relative to the rotating field;
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- d) an object return path having an object receiving area and an outlet positioned above or adjacent the rotating field;
- e) wherein an award that is not the same as the object retrieved by the magnetic retriever is dispensed from the redemption dispenser upon the magnetic retriever retrieving an object from the rotating field and delivering the object to the object return path for return of the object to the rotating field through the outlet;
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- f) wherein the magnetic retriever is operable to retrieve objects from the rotating field during a predetermined time period indicated by the timer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.