Patent ID: 8302966

Claim:
A game played with coins to deliver a prize to a player, comprising: a coin platform adapted to receive and retain a plurality of the coins; a coin delivery mechanism adapted to deliver the coins proximate the coin platform; a prize platform adapted to support the prize and mechanically coupled with the coin platform to dispense the prize when the weight of the plurality of coins retained by the coin platform reaches a critical weight; a prize chute situated below the prize platform and adapted to deliver the prize to the player when the prize falls from the prize platform; and a profit chute situated below the coin platform and adapted to deliver the coins falling into the profit chute into a coin storage receptacle; whereby with a prize supported on the prize platform, the player uses the coin delivery mechanism to deliver coins proximate the coin platform, some of which are retained thereon, the others of which fall into the profit chute, such that when the weight of the accumulated coins on the coin platform reaches the critical weight, the prize platform dispenses the prize into the prize chute.