FR2858244A1 - Electronic machine for assisting players of quine comprises telephone type keyboard enabling entry of numbers available to player and those which are drawn - Google Patents

Abstract

The electronic machine comprises a telephone type keyboard with a tactile indicator on the 5 enabling the prior entry of the numbers available to the player and then those which are drawn.

Description

The present invention relates to an electronic machine for

  assist the players of "quine", also called "lotto" game. In its traditional presentation, this game consists of cards with 15 numbers from 1 to 90 spread over 3 lines of

  5. The leader draws the numbers until a player realizes the number of lines required to win, then the game is completed erasing occurs by removing these objects. This game may include intermediate phases that are also left to the initiative of the facilitator. The marking of the numbers on the cartons is made with various objects, more or less stable and whose positioning is difficult. The procedure is long, tedious, prone to errors. Their reactivity potential, their pace, and above all their visual acuity do not put all the players on an equal footing. Blind people are in particular excluded from this highly associative game The machine, according to the invention, makes it possible to group in memory the numbers of each line of the cards available to the player. It is assigned a cardboard membership address, to the group of numbers that forms each line, to allow the verification in case of gain; the carton 20 remaining confirmatory piece. Numbers and addresses are on the back of the cartons as barcodes.

  The machine, according to the invention, and in its first version, can connect to the barcode reader that has the facilitator and which he handles.

  The machine has a phone type keyboard, with a tactile mark on the 5, which allows all 25 players to enter the numbers as and when they draw by animator or replace the reading in barcode.

  The machine, according to the invention, also has the controls to make him execute the phases of the game requested by the host and the acknowledgment signals, sound and light, which are attached thereto.

  The machine communicates the expected results, but also information on the current game phase, on the revolution of the results by sound signals and screen displays.

  The machine according to the invention, and in its second version, is entirely autonomous. The numbers are read directly by the machine. The barcode reader is integrated in the upper part.

  Still according to the invention, in its third version, the machine, which has all the basic elements of a mobile phone, namely screen, keyboard, control keys, sound indicators, is itself integrated with a mobile phone and becomes an additional function in the "games" menu. The reading of the bar codes is carried out in the manner proper to the first version of the invention, that is to say by auxiliary reader.

Claims (4)

  1 1) Energy autonomous electronic machine, to assist players "quine", including visually impaired, who can store the set of numbers contained in their game and previously translated into bar codes, comprising a phone type keyboard with a tactile mark on the 5 allowing manual entry of the numbers available to the players and those drawn by the animator, whose function of assistant is to warn the players by sound signal, when there is a match of a quantity set and defined by this animator, between numbers in memory and numbers drawn by him.   2) characterized machine according to claim 1, in that it has an input for connecting to a barcode reader to introduce him in memory all the numbers available to the player. It also has a keyboard to enter directly numbers pulled by the animator.   3) Machine according to claim 1, characterized in that it has its own bar code reading system.   4) According to claim 1 electronic system characterized in that it becomes an accessory function of a mobile phone having the first feature of the second claim.