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US 4,378,940 AGranted
Electronic device for playing bingo, lotto and allied card games
OwnerJacob Gluz, Benjamin Pokuinventors
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Abstract
An electronic device comprising a master controller, numeric and alphanumeric displays, a numeric keyboard, control buttons, a pattern-input switch matrix, a card-input assembly and an optional audio module--all in one unit--automatically reads coded numbers on a card, accepts numbers as well as patterns whereupon it indicates by visual and optionally audible means when a win (i.e. "BINGO") occurs. The basic device can easily be adapted so it can be used to play other card games besides BINGO, (e.g. LOTTO).
Claims11
An electronic game, such as a bingo, a lotto and the like, comprising
- a plurality of data cards each including a set of numbers for a single card;
- means for successively reading numbers on said data cards and subsequently storing a plurality of card images each consisting of the respective set of said numbers;
- means for submitting by a player and storing a configuration pattern specifying sets of named positions on said card images which are considered to be winning;
- means for successive inputting by a player a plurality of further numbers introduced by a dealer, comparing each of said thusly inputted further numbers with each number of each of said stored card images, and recording the numbers which coincide with said further inputted numbers;
- displaying means including first means for determining and displaying the numbers of each card image on which the further numbers inputted by said inputting means have coincided with said set of positions specified by the configuration pattern submitted by said submitting means and which thereby is a winning card image;
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- start game means operative for switching off said reading means and said submitting means and switching on said inputting means and said determining means.
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