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US 5,031,914 AGranted
Electronic dice game
OwnerMark Rosenthalinventor
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Abstract
A hand-held electronic dice game randomly generates pictorial representations of a plurality of die faces in display windows. Players' scores are determined by comparing wagers made by a player to a predetermined scoring schedule. The hand-held electronic disce game displays the score each turn and accumulated running scores.
Claims2
A hand-held electronic device for playing a dice game by a plurality of players comprising
- a quadrilateral housing member;
- a plurality of first display windows disposed in the top face of said housing member;
- means to display within each of the first display windows a pictorial representation of the face of a die;
- a plurality of second display windows corresponding in number to said plurality of first display windows disposed adjacently below said first display windows;
- means to effect random shuffling and display of the pictorial representations within said first display window;
- means to effect random display of pictorial representations of the opposite face of said pictorial representations within said plurality of second display windows;
- a third window display window disposed in the top face of said housing member;
- means of accumulating the number of turns taken by a player;
- means of selectively displaying the accumulated number of turns taken by each player;
- a fourth display window disposed in the top face of said housing member;
- means of selectively summing and storing numerical representations of the pictorial representations for each player;
- means of selectively displaying the stored sums for each player;
- means of selecting display turns and sums;
- a fifth display window disposed in the top face of said housing member to display pictorial representations of a die;
- means to randomly generate pictorial representations within said fifth display window;
- means to select first windows for summing;
- means to select second windows for summing;
- means to selectively remove one or a plurality of dice from random shuffling and accumulation;
- means to select scores to be accumulated;
- and
- means to select "bust" or "50% penalty of score accumulated" on a turn.
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A hand-held electronic device for play of a dice game comprising
- a housing member;
- a first display window disposed in said housing member;
- a random die start button;
- a random die stop button;
- a random die face generator circuit providing means to randomly determine a die face for display in said first display window by operation of said random die start button and said random die stop button;
- a die face display circuit providing means to display the die face randomly generated;
- a second display window disposed in said housing member;
- a player selector button;
- a player indicia display circuit communicating with said player selector button;
- a player selector memory circuit communicating with said player selector button;
- a turns counter and memory circuit communicating with said player selector button;
- a turns display circuit communicating with said turns counter and memory circuit;
- a third display window disposed in said housing member;
- a score accumulator and memory circuit communicating with said player selector memory circuit;
- a score display circuit communicating with said score accumulator and memory circuit;
- a fourth display window disposed in said housing member;
- a plurality of fifth display windows disposed in said housing member;
- a plurality of sixth display window disposed in said housing member;
- a random dice start button;
- a random dice stop button;
- a random dice generator circuit communicating with said random dice start button and said random dice stop button;
- a top face display circuit communicating with said random dice generator circuit;
- a bottom face display circuit communicating with said random dice generator circuit;
- a face display controller communicating with said top face display circuit and said bottom face display circuit;
- a plurality of scoring buttons communicating with said random dice generator circuit;
- a selection register communicating with said plurality of scoring buttons;
- a score schedule memory circuit communicating with said selection register;
- a score accumulation button communicating with said selection register and said score accumulator and memory circuit;
- a penalty button communicating with said selection register and said score accumulator and memory circuit;
- a "bottoms" button;
- and
- a "bottoms" button register communicating with said top face dice display circuit and said bottom face dice display circuit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.