Patent ID: 7219891

Claim:
A method of playing a table game on a game table having a gamepiece, the game table including a first endwall, a second endwall, a first sidewall, a second sidewall and a playing surface, a first plurality of sensors mounted proximate to the first endwall and a second plurality of sensors mounted proximate to the second endwall, the first and second plurality of sensors each being actuable between an on condition and an off condition, a control circuit being in communication with the first and second plurality of sensors, the method comprising the steps of: a) activating at least one of the first plurality of sensors to the on condition defining a first goal having a first goal length comprised of a width of a sensing area of the at least one of the first plurality of sensors in the on condition; b) actuating a remainder of the first plurality of sensors to the off condition; c) applying a force to the gamepiece propelling the gamepiece toward the first endwall; d) transmitting a signal to the control circuit when the gamepiece enters a sensing area of the first goal such that the control circuit records a goal; and e) disallowing the goal if the control circuit one of receives signals from a series of successive sensors of the first goal in a short period of time and detects that the gamepiece lingered in the first goal for longer than a predetermined amount of time, indicating that the gamepiece has traveled along a length of the first endwall.