Patent ID: 7841597

Claim:
A gaming apparatus which comprises (i) a stationary base; (ii) a wheel having a rotor rotatably mounted on a vertical axis with respect to the base, the rotor having pockets on its periphery into which a ball can be received with each pocket being associated with a number; (iii) a peripheral inclined surface concentric with the rotor for receiving a ball rollably thereon wherein the ball will roll into one of the pockets when the ball slows, the said surface comprising a circular, inclined ball track, disposed above, and radially outwardly of the rotor and (iv) a means to propel the ball along the ball track, each pocket having a hole in it and there being at least one air injection means which is connectable to the said hole so that a ball received in a pocket can be ejected from the pocket onto the peripheral inclined surface by air coming out of the hole.