Electronic dice game

Claim 2

A hand-held electronic device for playing a dice game by a plurality of players comprising a quadrilateral housing member; a plurality of first display windows disposed in the top face of said housing member; means to display within each of the first display windows a pictorial representation of the face of a die; a plurality of second display windows corresponding in number to said plurality of first display windows disposed adjacently below said first display windows; means to effect random shuffling and display of the pictorial representations within said first display window; means to effect random display of pictorial representations of the opposite face of said pictorial representations within said plurality of second display windows; a third window display window disposed in the top face of said housing member; means of accumulating the number of turns taken by a player; means of selectively displaying the accumulated number of turns taken by each player; a fourth display window disposed in the top face of said housing member; means of selectively summing and storing numerical representations of the pictorial representations for each player; means of selectively displaying the stored sums for each player; means of selecting display turns and sums; a fifth display window disposed in the top face of said housing member to display pictorial representations of a die; means to randomly generate pictorial representations within said fifth display window; means to select first windows for summing; means to select second windows for summing; means to selectively remove one or a plurality of dice from random shuffling and accumulation; means to select scores to be accumulated; and means to select "bust" or "50% penalty of score accumulated" on a turn.

Claim 3

A hand-held electronic device for play of a dice game comprising a housing member; a first display window disposed in said housing member; a random die start button; a random die stop button; a random die face generator circuit providing means to randomly determine a die face for display in said first display window by operation of said random die start button and said random die stop button; a die face display circuit providing means to display the die face randomly generated; a second display window disposed in said housing member; a player selector button; a player indicia display circuit communicating with said player selector button; a player selector memory circuit communicating with said player selector button; a turns counter and memory circuit communicating with said player selector button; a turns display circuit communicating with said turns counter and memory circuit; a third display window disposed in said housing member; a score accumulator and memory circuit communicating with said player selector memory circuit; a score display circuit communicating with said score accumulator and memory circuit; a fourth display window disposed in said housing member; a plurality of fifth display windows disposed in said housing member; a plurality of sixth display window disposed in said housing member; a random dice start button; a random dice stop button; a random dice generator circuit communicating with said random dice start button and said random dice stop button; a top face display circuit communicating with said random dice generator circuit; a bottom face display circuit communicating with said random dice generator circuit; a face display controller communicating with said top face display circuit and said bottom face display circuit; a plurality of scoring buttons communicating with said random dice generator circuit; a selection register communicating with said plurality of scoring buttons; a score schedule memory circuit communicating with said selection register; a score accumulation button communicating with said selection register and said score accumulator and memory circuit; a penalty button communicating with said selection register and said score accumulator and memory circuit; a "bottoms" button; and a "bottoms" button register communicating with said top face dice display circuit and said bottom face dice display circuit.

Claim 4

A hand-held electronic device for play of a dice game comprising a housing member; a first display window disposed in said housing member; a random die start button; a random die stop button; a random die face generator circuit providing means to randomly determine a die face for display in said first display window by operation of said random die start button and said random die stop button; a die face display circuit providing means to display the die face randomly generated; a second display window disposed in said housing member; a player selector button; a player indicia display circuit communicating with said player selector button; a player selector memory circuit communicating with said player selector button; a turns counter and memory circuit communicating with said player selector button; a turns display circuit communicating with said turns counter and memory circuit; a third display window disposed in said housing member; a score accumulator and memory circuit communicating with said player selector memory circuit; a score display circuit communicating with said score accumulator and memory circuit; a fourth display window disposed in said housing member; a plurality of fifth display windows disposed in said housing member; a plurality of sixth display window disposed in said housing member; a random dice start button; a random dice stop button; a random dice generator circuit communicating with said random dice start button and said random dice stop button; a top face display circuit communicating with said random dice generator circuit; a bottom face display circuit communicating with said random dice generator circuit; a face display controller communicating with said top face display circuit and said bottom face display circuit; a plurality of scoring buttons communicating with said random dice generator circuit; a selection register communicating with said plurality of scoring buttons; a score schedule memory circuit communicating with said selection register; a score accumulation button communicating with said selection register and said score accumulator and memory circuit; a penalty button communicating with said selection register and said score accumulator and memory circuit; a "bottoms" button; and a "bottoms" button register communicating with said top face dice display circuit and said bottom face dice display circuit.