US1555447A

US1555447A - Gaming device

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Publication number: US1555447A
Application number: US544756A
Authority: US
Inventors: Bernstein Hill
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1922-03-18
Filing date: 1922-03-18
Publication date: 1925-09-29
Anticipated expiration: 1942-09-29

Description

Sept. 29, 1925.

' H. BERNSTEIN GAMING DEVICE Filed March 18. 1922 .LSBNDH K WHBVEI V HDNEST M ABE M 20 to cause a predetermined character to be per side has been the description proceeds. meets Jack, he loses. On the first roll, if 95 Patented Sept. 29, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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Application filed March 18, 1922. Serial No. 544,756.

To all whom it may concern: is thus perfectly s mmetrical and the prob- Be it known that I,' HILL BERNSTEIN, ability of an one side turnin uppermost a citizen of the United States, residing at when 'the bal is thrown in p ayg is equal Chicago, in the county of Cook and State to the probability of any other side coming 5 of Illinois, have invented certain new and uppermost. useful Improvements in Gaming Devices, of In the particular form shown in} the which the following is a specification. drawings, the several sides have. "been This invention relates to a new and immarked as follows: Two sides have been proved gaming apparatus and morespecifimarked Honest Abe, two sides have been cally to a polyhedron having indicia upon marked J, standing for Jack, three sides Q its several faces. a have been marked E, standing for Eva, four Numerous games are played using dice sides have been marked with A, standing consisting of cubes having their several for Abe, four sides have been marked with sides marked, but such dice are open to the K, standing for Kate, and five sides have objection that they only provide the'possibeen-marked with "M, standing for Mabel. 70 bility of placing thereon six different char- It will thus be observed that although the acters. A further difliculty with the use of .probabil-itiesare e ual .amon the various cube dice lies in' the fact that it is possible, sides, that the pro ability 0 each of the by an expert user, to so throw the dice as various characters a pearlng upon the n dbfinitely, fixed by t e exposed upon the upper sidethereof. number ofsides upon which each character It is an objectof the present invention appears. to provide a polyhedron having such a A game employing the specific marks number of sides'as to be capable of bearing shown in the drawing may be covered by a relatively large number of indicia and rules as followsz The various players may which polyhedron is regular in form so use thedevice in turn or one player may that the chances are equal for each of the continue to use it as long as he continues sides being horizontally exposed upon the to win. .The ball is rolled by being thrown upper surface when the gaming-device is by the hand or from a cup, upon any flat 30 thrown in play. surface. If desired, it may be made to re- It is a further object toprovide a device bound from some vertical surface on to a of this character on which various indicia flat surface, I may be duplicated on the several sides, the On th first roll, if the roller meets Honnumber of duplications of the different inest Abe, that is, causes the character Honest I 35 dicia beingdetermined upon apredeter- Abe to appear on the up ermost face of mined ratio, .such that the probability of the the device when thrown, be neither wins various indicia appearing is definitely pronor loses 'In this case, the next roll is again portioned. counted as the first. On the first roll, it Other and further objects will appear as the rolle meets Abe, he wins, while. if he I have illustrated a preferred embodiment the, roller meets Mabel, Kate or Eva, he of my invention in the accompanying drawmust continue rolling until he either meets ings, in which I again "his particular girl or meets Honest Figure 1 is a face view of the device, Abe or Abe. If he meets his girl again 45 Figure 2 is a view of Figure 1 as seen first, he wins, while if he meets Honest Abe from above; and or; Abe first,,he loses. After having met Figure 3 is a diagrammatic, developed die .of the girls, meeting'Jack, he neither view showing the indicia upon all the surwins nor loses. faces of the polyhedron. Obviously, the record of the game may be The gaming device shown comprises a kept either by means of counters or on spherical polyhedron having twenty sides, scoring devices of any kind. The rules of the sides being identical in shape and size, the game given are by way of example only each side being an equilateral triangle whose as obviously the device is capable of various plane intersects the plane of each adjoinuses in connection with games having other ing side at an identical angle. The solid and different rules.

of identical shape and size, each face being an equilateral triangle whose plane intersects the plane of each adjoining face at an identical angle, the sides being each marked with a character relating to the game, two difl'ering characters, each occurring on two faces, another character occurring on three faces, two other diiferent characters each occurring on four faces, and one character occurring onfive faces.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 16th day 25 of March, 1922.

HILL BERNSTEIN.