Games and patents
Games
Games he led as chief architect. Titles and brands belong to their owners.
- Yahtzee
- Yahtzee Bonus and Yahtzee Take a Chance (spinning reel); Yahtzee, Yahtzee Mystery Winner and Yahtzee Looking for Love (video)
- Battleship
- Battleship All Aboard and Battleship Winning Encounter (video)
- Clue
- Clue Winning Solution (video)
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- Adventures in Trivia and The Adventure Continues (video); a version with a wheel; Big Wheel (online). A trivia-based slot game, one of his patented designs
- Trivial Pursuit
- Trivial Pursuit Easy As Pie (video)
- Garfield
- Garfield It's All About Me! (video)
- Liberty Ball, Kazoingo, Caribbean Pearls
- Spinning-reel and video games with a mechanical pachinko feature
- Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, Family Feud
- Video games with an oversized top screen
Patents
Selected U.S. patents with him as inventor or co-inventor, out of more than 80 issued in the United States.
- US 6,033,307Gaming machines with bonusing
- Inventor: Olaf Vancura. Granted 2000.
- US 6,409,172Methods and apparatus for a casino game
- Inventor: Olaf Vancura. Granted 2002. A path game whose square values and landing odds hold the house advantage within a set range.
- US 6,666,765Casino game and method having a hint feature
- Inventor: Olaf Vancura. Granted 2003.
- US 6,916,245Method for wagering on baccarat tie
- Inventors: Olaf Vancura, Terrance W. Oliver. Granted 2005.
- US 7,226,357Mechanical wheel casino game of chance having a free-motion internal indicator and method therefor
- Inventor: Olaf Vancura. Granted 2007.
- US 7,284,756Method for operating mechanical casino bonus game in the presence of mechanical bias
- Inventors: Jesse E. Pierce, Olaf Vancura. Granted 2007.
- US 7,297,059Progressive gaming system and method having fractional progressive jackpot awards
- Inventors: Olaf Vancura, Scott R. Lewis. Granted 2007.
- US 7,572,182Knowledge-based casino game and method therefor
- Inventor: Olaf Vancura. Granted 2009.
- US 9,830,773Apportionment of pay out of casino game with escrow
- Inventors: Olaf Vancura, Terrance William Oliver. Granted 2017.