Syllabic roulette game with solmization, and method

Abstract

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

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates generally to games of chance, and more particularly to novel variations on the roulette wheel and wagers placed thereon. The present invention comprises a roulette wheel comprising alphabetic characters and rainbow colors, and multiple balls. The balls may come to rest upon at least two letters for forming a letter couplet, triplet, etc. The combination of letters may form syllables or words, which formations may be coupled to tones for eliciting an enhanced gaming experience.[0003]2. Description of the Prior Art[0004]Gaming is ancient. Over time, core gaming themes and gaming rules have developed, which continue to enjoy wide popularity. In order to infuse some element of novelty into ancient games, gaming enthusiasts continually strive to enhance the gaming experience through inventive approaches to play. Roulette, for example, has been credited to many ancient sources, including Chinese ...

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Benefits of technology

[0018]Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a vibrant rainbow themed roulette game, in which the rainbow theme may be extended to enable one or more levels of so-called Mystery Jackpot prizes or awards. As a means to enable various jackpot prizes or award, the present invention provides a syllabic roulette game for eliciting an enhanced winning experience as achieved via the visual and / or aural stimulation of a roulette game user.

[0020]The wager support surface is preferably disposed adjacent the roulette wheel for facilitating wager placement, and comprises a plurality of wager-receiving sections, each wager-receiving section having a superior section surface bearing a select, wager-based alphabetic character, the wheel-based and wager-based characters having paired character correspondence. The sector-stimulating or character-identifying balls are each receivable in one of the ball-receiving sectors. The select ball-receiving sectors cooperably provide the select auditory tone when the sector-stimulating balls are received thereby. The paired character correspondence and the select auditory tone together function to visually and aurally stimulate a user's senses for enhancing the gaming experience.

Problems solved by technology

It will be seen from a further review of the above-referenced patents and other prior art generally known to exist, however, that the prior art does not teach a roulette type game for forming syllabic letter couplets or words utilizing multiple dice and alphabetic characters, which couplets and / or words, when formed via roulette type balls, may be operably coupled to certain means for providing tones, all of which functions to stimulate the gamer's senses for enhancing the overall gaming experience.

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