A roulette game enables single-spin formation of meaningful character strings, which character strings may be coupled to tones for enhancing the gaming experience. The meaningful character strings may be defined by solfege-enabling letter groups, which letter groups may prompt underlying tones in solmization. The syllabic roulette game comprises a roulette wheel, a wager-enabling layout, and a plurality of balls. The wheel comprises alphabetic characters against a rainbow colored backdrop for enabling various payout schemes. A color-coordinated wager support surface is preferably disposed adjacent the roulette wheel for facilitating wager placement.

Disclosed is a set of a plurality dice useful for playing a spelling game among multiple players and an exemplary method of playing the game. The plurality of dice is assembleable to form a dice block attractive for packaging. Typically, all of the dice are cube shaped and of the same dimensions. Each die of the set has each of its faces labeled with a character set consisting of one or more letters of the alphabet. The manner of play can be varied by altering the total number of individual dice in the dice set used for play, for example from 125 dice to 100 dice, by adding or removing dice specifically color-coded for that purpose. Thus the manner of play can be adjusted to alter the difficulty of play or the total time of play.

A boxing device (1,400) serves for performing a harmless boxing match. The boxing device (1,400) has a base (2,5,53,87), a buffer (3,6,54) configured to hit a target (A,B,75) without injuring said target (A,B,75), and an extensible joint (4,7,54) that connects the base (2,5,53,7) and the buffer (3,6,54) to move said buffer between a retracted position and one or more extended positions. The extensible joint (4,79,82) is an element assembly of at least two extension elements (8,9,55,56,80a,80b), the extensible joint is configured to move the buffer (3,6,54) into the one or more extended positions by virtue of the propulsive force transferred to the extensible joint (4,79,82) by a punch done by a hand of a boxer (A,B) holding the boxing device (1,400), and auto-retract after the punch has been performed. The harmless boxing match is an enjoyable and beguiling exercise, which furthermore impart good and healthy motions to the participants.

A letter tile word game has letter tiles that are formed in an octagon shape, where words can be played not only vertically or horizontally, but also diagonally. Further, the letter tiles have features that permit tile interlocking when building words from the letter tiles, the interlocking feature being available in each of the horizontal word building, the vertical word building and the diagonal word building. The game does not require a separate board for play. With the interlocking nature of the letter tiles, a user can easily rotate the tiles if they want to view the game right-side-up during their turn. Further, should the game be jolted, the letter tiles, being interlocked together, do not inadvertently separate.

Briefly, embodiments of a game or puzzle, such as involving arranging labels on a cube-like structure, for example, are described.

A gaming system including a plurality of tiles enclosed in at least two bags with each bag containing tile s having a different color, a racking system configured to hold at least fourteen tiles with the rack having at least two tiers each configured to hold tiles where each of the tile includes a letter and a number and the tiles are separated by color and placed into separate bags.

The money puzzle box is adapted for use with a currency. The money puzzle box is adapted for use with coins associated with the currency. The money puzzle box comprises a game board and a plurality of coin pieces. The plurality of coin pieces are pieces to a puzzle that are assembled upon the game board. The solution to the puzzle requires knowledge of a currency, which is being tested by the puzzle. The game board further folds into a box, which is used as a container within which the plurality of coin pieces are stored.

A system and method for detecting colored objects and decoding messages are provided. A light source is operatively coupled to a power source for emitting light on a colored object. A light receiver is configured to receive the emitted light from the light source as the light reflects off the colored object and is further configured to detect color of the reflected light. Further, a processor is operatively coupled to processor readable media and is configured to receive, via a communications module, information representing the color of the reflected light. A housing is included for supporting the light source, the light receiver, the processor and the communications module. The processor is configured to process the information representing the color of the reflected light and provide at least partial message information corresponding to the color.

A chess-like game having pieces and rules similar to conventional chess but which includes a new piece having powers and limitations not present in conventional chess pieces.

A messaging novelty device. A messaging novelty device can include a customizable message provisioning system and a customizable display system. A method of operating a messaging novelty device can include controlling reproduction of content on a customizable display system of the novelty device according to how a user interacts with the novelty device and content presentation rules.