An electronic tournament gaming tabletop for use with ping pong, beer pong, or other tabletop games. The table includes a means for entering each player's name and keeping the list of players. The player names and scores are displayed on the surface of the table for use in a tournament. The table may implement a rule of winner remains, advancing the list when an end-game signal is entered by the players, or a bracket. When the feature is specified, usage can be automatically tracked and directly communicated with a cloud system for the accurate tracking and sharing of gameplay information including time of use, while personal identifying information such as names will remain on the device, be erased upon power-off, and never be sent over the internet.

An illuminated outcome determination device includes a controller, a random number generator (RNG), and a carousel including a plurality of sectors disposed around the carousel. A plurality of lights are disposed around the carousel corresponding to the sectors. The sectors may include fixed or removable indicia for different outcomes of a casino game. The RNG determines a winning sectors, and the controller illuminates the winning sector via the plurality of lights to determine the winning outcome that is located at the winning sector. The controller may include a sound module that generates a sound along with the illumination of the lights to mimic rotation around the carousel. The carousel may remain fixed in place with the lights being illuminated in a circle around the fixed carousel.

A system and method for capturing an image of letter tiles such as letter tiles used in a game play, and comparing one or more configurations of the letter tiles in the captured image to one or more words that are stored in a memory associated with the imager that captured the image. A signal may be issued to upon a match or mismatch of one or more of the words configured by letter tiles in the captured image to one or more of the words stored in the memory.

A board game scoring assistive device having a panel that includes one or more apertures accommodating a player game piece or token and a particular manner keeping it positioned over the proper area or score, especially when the game piece is sized so that it covers more than just a single scoring position. This invention helps to alleviate the questions of which position the piece is in as well as where the piece had been in the event of an accidental jolt to the scoring area.

The present invention relates to a device for revealing a winner. The current embodiments are in the field of toys and games and reveal a winner in play battle or sport. Specifically the device utilizes at least one sensing mechanism for revealing a winner. More specifically a device for revealing a winner can be Balloon Toys such as Balloon Swords. It uses sensing mechanisms to determine the moment a winner has won and then triggers a mechanism in the non-winners device to destroy itself. A device for revealing a winner may include a bladder fill able with fluid, a way to hold the bladder, a mechanism to detect a win event, a mechanism to notify the loser's equipment of the win event, and a mechanism to burst the bladder of the loser's battle/sport equipment based on their loss.

The present invention relates to a method for operating a ride (1) on a terrain (10) having at least one vehicle (20), the at least one vehicle (20) having a drive device (22), at least one passenger receptacle (21) for at least one passenger (5), and a store (24) that can be filled with projectiles (15), the method being characterized in that the at least one vehicle (20) is moved on the terrain by means of the relevant drive device (22) and in that at least one projectile (15) can be removed from the store (24) can be fired at the instigation of the at least one passenger (5). In addition, the present invention relates to a ride (1).

An information provision device in an information provision system includes, as its functions: a score control circuit that increases or decreases a provision timing score on the occurrence of a predetermined action; a timing determination circuit that determines the coming of the time to provide quiz information if the provision timing score exceeds a predetermined threshold; a priority control circuit that determines or changes, based on the situation of, e.g., a sport game on each occurrence of an action, priority associated with text information from which quiz information is generated; a quiz information generation circuit that generates appropriate quiz information based on the situation of, e.g., the sport game at the time determined; and a quiz information provision circuit that provides the generated quiz information to a user.

A sports tournament bracket card game that may be played in conjunction with an actual sports tournament. The sports bracket card game may include playing cards with values calculated based upon historical tournament data. The sports tournament bracket card game may also include an additional bonus card deck to provide additional playing excitement as well as a forecasting element using a sheet of integrity on which players may predict the outcome of elements of the games of the tournament.

A playmat for receiving and maintaining a plurality of cards in a user-selected configuration comprises a first section and a second section rotatably attached to the first section. Each section comprises a planar support structure configured to receive a plurality of cards. The lengths of the sections and a plurality of rows within each section extend parallel to a common longitudinal axis. Each section comprises a holding structure arranged and configured to clamp the plurality of cards towards the support structure. The length of the holding structure and the height of the rows is selected such that the holding structure can receive and hold at least two non-overlapping cards and the cards can be maintained in the holding structure when in a rotated configuration in which two opposite corners of the card extend along a line parallel with the longitudinal axis.

The present disclosure provides a goal secured to a table configured to receive a projectile from a tabletop game with a playing surface. The goal includes a net portion, at least one bracket, and a tray portion. The net portion has a first end and a second end. The net portion is movable between a first position and a second position. The net portion is configured to receive a first projectile in the first position and a second projectile in the second position. The at least one bracket is configured to receive at least one of the first end or the second end of the net portion. The tray portion is configured to store the first projectile and the second projectile.