Multi-player gaming platform allowing independent play on common visual display
CA 2356790 A1 · Owner: Wms Gaming Inc. · Inventors: Canterbury, Stephen A.
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A multi-player gaming platform includes a large visual display and a plurality of player terminals coupled to the visual display. The visual display indicates a game, of chance including a single play field and a plurality of movable game pieces. The, game pieces are associated with the respective player terminals. In response to a, wager placed at one of the player terminals the game piece associated with , that, terminal moves along or near the play field and generates a game outcome. The game, outcome may be defined by the game piece itself or where the game piece lands on the, play field. The game awards a payoff if the game outcome meets winning criteria. The wager placed at the …
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- Filed August 31, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 31, 2021.
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