Patent ID: 8267403

Claim:
A syllabic roulette game, the syllabic roulette game for visually and aurally stimulating a game user, the syllabic roulette game comprising: a roulette wheel, the roulette wheel comprising a plurality of evenly spaced radially inward sphere-receiving sectors, a plurality of radially-outward sphere-launching rings, and a speaker, the speaker for providing auditory tones, each sphere-receiving sector comprising a superior sector surface, the superior sector surfaces each bearing a select alphabetic wheel character, a plurality of select sphere receiving sectors being cooperably keyed to the speaker for providing a select auditory tone; a wagering surface that includes a plurality of wager-receiving sections, each wager-receiving section comprising a superior section surface, the superior section surfaces each bearing a select alphabetic wager character, the wheel and wager characters having paired character correspondence; and a plurality of sector-stimulating spheres, the sector-stimulating spheres each being launchable from the sphere-launching rings and receivable in one of the sphere-receiving sectors, the select sphere receiving sectors cooperably providing the select auditory tone when the sector-stimulating spheres are received therein, the paired character correspondence and the select auditory tone for visually and aurally stimulating a user; wherein the wagering surface includes a jackpot betting option, and wherein a player that selects the jackpot betting option is awarded based at least in part on when the select auditory tone occurs.