Apparatus and method for playing a game
AssigneeIncredible Technologies, Inc.
InventorsRichard A. Ditton, Elaine A. Hodgson
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Abstract
A gaming system and method that analyzes and evaluates a player's play input in accordance with a statistically optimal play and generates an acknowledgement where the play input is consistent with an optimum play in response to a particular game condition. The gaming system features at least one display device, at least one player input device, at least one programmable processor coupled to the display device and at least one storage unit coupled to the processor. The storage unit stores a plurality of instructions executable by the programmable processor for performing the method.
Claims23
A gaming system comprising:
- at least one display device;
- at least one input device;
- at least one programmable processor coupled to the display device and the input device;
- and
- at least one storage unit, coupled to the processor, wherein the unit stores a plurality of instructions executable by the programmable processor to,
- present on the display device a plurality of play choices;
- receive from the input device a play choice from a player;
- evaluate the choice relative to a pre-established optimum outcome which is in accordance with a selected criterion;
- and
- generate at least one visual indicator of a match between the choice and the optimum outcome.
A gaming system comprising:
- at least one display device;
- at least one input device;
- at least one programmable processor coupled to the display device and the input device;
- and
- at least one storage unit, coupled to the processor, wherein the unit stores a plurality of instructions executable by the programmable processor to,
- present on the display device a plurality of play choices;
- receive from the input device a play choice from a player,
- establishing a multi-game time interval;
- and
- generating an indicium indicative of the number of plays per the established time interval.
A method of conducting a tournament comprising:
- for each of a plurality of players, playing a plurality of pre-defined hands of a game in a pre-set time interval;
- establishing for each player, a score based, at least in part, on speed of play of the hands and for each player, a ratio of hands played by that player which are in accordance with a predetermined criteria, to total hands played by that player;
- assigning, based on a second criteria, at least some of the players to a tournament pool;
- and
- ranking the assigned players in the pool in response to each player's respective score and ratio.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.