Game apparatus
AssigneeScientific Games International, Inc.
InventorsGary R. Streeter, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Mark Tevis
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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. Also described are lottery tickets or game cards that are adapted use with the game devices along with methods of manufacturing the game cards.
Claims17
A game card for use with a game having a plurality of possible outcomes comprising:
- a substrate;
- at least one first electrically conductive element on said substrate wherein said element is configured such that the electrical signature of said first element represents a predetermined one of the potential game outcomes;
- wherein the first electrically conductive element is discontinuous and defined with at least one gap, which is free of the material of the first electrically conductive element, the at least one gap altering the electrical signature of said first element to represent a predetermined one of the potential game outcomes;
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- at least one second electrically conductive element that is player removable and effectively alters the electrical signature of the first electrically conductive element by shorting the first electrically conductive element until the second electrically conductive element is removed.
A set of game cards for a lottery type game comprising:
- a substrate;
- a plurality of first electrically conductive elements printed on said substrate of each of the cards wherein said first electrically conductive elements on each of the cards are configured such that the electrical signatures of said elements represents a predetermined one of a set of potential game outcomes wherein the first electrically conductive elements are discontinuous and defined with at least one gap, which is free of the material of the first electrically conductive elements, the at least one gap altering the electrical signature of said first electrically conductive elements to represent a predetermined one of the set of potential game outcomes wherein different ones of the cards will have different ones of said game outcomes;
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- at least one second electrically conductive element that is player removable and effectively alters said signatures of said first electrically conductive elements by shorting the at least one gap defined within the first electrically conductive elements, until the at least one second electrically conductive element is removed.
A method of making set of game cards for a lottery type game comprising the steps of:
- printing in conductive ink on a substrate of each of the cards a plurality of first electrically conductive elements;
- modifying selected ones of a plurality of first electrically conductive elements printed on said substrate of each of the cards by defining at least one gap, which is free of the material of the first electrically conductive elements, in the first electrically conductive elements so that they are discontinuous, such that said first electrically conductive elements on each of the cards are configured so that the electrical signatures of said first electrically conductive elements on each of the cards is altered by the at least one gap to represent a predetermined one of a set of potential game outcomes;
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- printing at least one second electrically conductive element that is player removable and effectively alters said signatures of said first electrically conductive elements by shorting the first electrically conductive elements until the at least one second electrically conductive element is removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.