Patent ID: 7694971
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method for arranging indicia on a game surface and on an associated roulette wheel for a roulette game, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a game surface; b) providing one roulette wheel; c) arranging indicia indicating one or more house numbers on the game surface arranged symmetrically spaced on the roulette wheel; d) arranging indicia indicating sixty whole numbers consisting of numbers wherein the whole numbers are arranged in three groups of twenty numbers each, a first group comprising the numbers 1 through 20 , a second group comprising the numbers 21 through 40 and a third group comprising the numbers 41 through 60 ; and wherein each of said first, second and third group comprise five even numbers associated with the first color, five odd numbers associated with first color, five even numbers associated with the second color and five odd numbers associated with the second color; e) arranging indicia indicating the one or more house numbers on the roulette wheel; and f) arranging indicia indicating each of the sixty whole numbers on the roulette wheel in a circumferential manner by: selecting a first whole number associated with the first color or the second color and disposed in one of the five columns and one of the three groups and indicating the first whole number on the roulette wheel; selecting a second whole number associated with another of the first color or the second color and disposed in another of the three columns and another of the three groups and indicating the second whole number on the roulette wheel adjacent to the first whole number; selecting a third whole number associated with the first color or the second color and disposed in one of the five columns not previously selected and in another of the three groups not previously selected and indicating the third whole number on the roulette wheel adjacent to the second whole number on the roulette wheel; selecting a fourth whole number associated with the first color or the second color and disposed in another of the five columns not previously selected but in the first group previously selected and indicating the fourth whole number on the roulette wheel adjacent to the third whole number on the roulette wheel; selecting a fifth whole number associated with the first color or the second color and disposed in one of the five columns not previously selected and in the second of the three groups previously selected, and indicating the fifth whole number on the roulette wheel adjacent to the fourth whole number on the roulette wheel, and repeating this pattern on the roulette wheel such that no two adjacent numbers on the roulette wheel are associated with a same color, are disposed in a same group on the game surface, are disposed in a same column on the game surface, are disposed in a same row on the game surface, or are disposed adjacent one another on the game surface, wherein for at least about two-thirds of the indicia numbers on the roulette wheel, each indicia number when traversing the roulette wheel clockwise beginning at a first pocket location of a first half of the roulette wheel and a corresponding positioned number when traversing the roulette wheel counter-clockwise beginning at the first pocket location of the second half of the roulette wheel will add up to sixty one for each pair of like positioned numbers.