12-color roulette wheel, 12-color pinwheel, and betting table associated therewith

Abstract

A gaming apparatus, configured as a roulette wheel, includes a circular surface rotationally anchored to a base at a central axis perpendicular to a plane of the circular surface; a plurality of indicia uniformly arranged at a periphery of the circular surface, each indicia being assigned a unique number and one of twelve colors; and a marker configured to select one of the plurality of indicia or house indicia. Another embodiment of a gaming apparatus is configured as a pinwheel including a first circular surface having a plurality of numeral indicia uniformly arranged at a periphery; and a second circular surface concentrically disposed with respect to the first circular surface. The second circular surface is configured to rotate independent of the first circular surface, and has a plurality of color indicia uniformly arranged at a periphery of the second circular surface, each indicia being assigned one of twelve colors.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A gaming apparatus comprising:
 a circular surface rotationally anchored to a base at a central axis perpendicular to a plane of the circular surface; and   a plurality of indicia uniformly arranged at a periphery of the circular surface, each indicia being assigned a unique number and one of twelve colors, wherein ach of the 12 colors are assigned to at least one indicia.   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus as in  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of indicia are arranged and labeled in a numerical pattern of: 18, 24, 11, 5, 30, 36, 23, 17, 4, 10, 35, 29, 16, 22, 3, 9, 28, 34, 15, 21, 8, 2, 27, 33, 20, 14, 1, 7, 32, 26, 13, 19, 6, 12, 25 and 31; and a house indicia disposed between 18 and 31. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus as in  claim 2 , wherein a first color of the twelve colors is assigned to 18, 16 and 8. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus as in  claim 3 , wherein a second color of the twelve colors is assigned to 24, 22 and 2. 
     
     
         5 . The apparatus as in  claim 4 , wherein a third color of the twelve colors is assigned to 11, 36 and 34. 
     
     
         6 . The apparatus as in  claim 5 , wherein a fourth color of the twelve colors is assigned to 5, 27 and 25. 
     
     
         7 . The apparatus as in  claim 6 , wherein a fifth color of the twelve colors is assigned to 30, 17 and 28. 
     
     
         8 . The apparatus as in  claim 7 , wherein a sixth color of the twelve colors is assigned to 23, 33 and 31. 
     
     
         9 . The apparatus as in  claim 8 , wherein a seventh color of the twelve colors is assigned to 4, 14 and 6. 
     
     
         10 . The apparatus as in  claim 9 , wherein an eighth color of the twelve colors is assigned to 10, 32 and 12. 
     
     
         11 . The apparatus as in  claim 10 , wherein a ninth color of the twelve colors is assigned to 35, 15 and 13. 
     
     
         12 . The apparatus as in  claim 11 , wherein a tenth color of the twelve colors is assigned to 29, 21 and 19. 
     
     
         13 . The apparatus as in  claim 12 , wherein an eleventh color of the twelve colors is assigned to 3, 1 and 26. 
     
     
         14 . The apparatus as in  claim 13 , wherein a twelfth color of the twelve colors is assigned to 9, 20 and 7. 
     
     
         15 . The apparatus as in  claim 3 , wherein a second house indicia, labeled as 00 is disposed between indicia  15  and  34  of the plurality of indicia. 
     
     
         16 . The apparatus as in  claim 15 , further comprising a betting table comprising:
 individual betting spaces labeled with numerals and colors corresponding to the plurality of indicia and the house indicia; and   twelve color betting spaces corresponding to the twelve colors assigned to the plurality of indicia.   
     
     
         17 . A gaming apparatus comprising:
 a first circular surface rotationally anchored to a base at a central axis perpendicular to a plane of the circular surface; and   a plurality of indicia uniformly arranged at a periphery of the first circular surface, each indicia being assigned a unique number; and   a second circular surface concentrically disposed with respect to the first circular surface, the second circular surface being rotationally anchored to a base at the central axis and configured to rotate independent of the first circular surface, the second circular surface having a plurality of color indicia uniformly arranged at a periphery of the second circular surface, each indicia being assigned one of twelve color.   
     
     
         18 . The apparatus as in  claim 17 , wherein the plurality of indicia are arranged and labeled in a numerical pattern of: 1, 60, 50, 29, 39, 18, 8, 47, 57, 36, 26, 15, 5, 44, 54, 33, 23, 2, 12, 51, 41, 40, 30, 9, 19, 58, 48, 27, 37, 16, 6, 55, 44, 34, 13, 3, 42, 52, 31, 21, 20, 10, 49, 59, 38, 28, 7, 17, 56, 46, 35, 25, 4, 14, 53, 43, 22, 32 and 11. 
     
     
         19 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the roulette wheel has only 36 indicia and each color is assigned to three different indicia so that only three indicia are of the same color. 
     
     
         20 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the roulette wheel has only 60 indicia and each color is assigned to five different indicia so that only five indicia are of the same color.