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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157637 | Apparatus and method for mapping multiple bingo game results to a common display Apparatus and methods are described for presenting multiple bingo game results on a common display. A bingo game player may participate in a number of bingo games and obtain results for each of those games. These bingo game results are combined to amount to a cumula... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157638 | Method, apparatus, and program product employing a touch screen button for presenting game feature information in a gaming machine A method includes displaying a button graphic on a touch screen video display device associated with a gaming machine. The button graphic defines a button display area on the touch screen video display device which may be touched to cause a touch screen controller a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147314 | Method, apparatus, and program product for presenting results in a bingo-type game A result represented by a matched bingo card representation is displayed to a player in a bingo-type game through a result representation provided at a suitable player station. Each result representation includes a graphical representation unrelated to the bingo-typ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8137178 | Gaming system and apparatus with player selected gaming modes Gaming systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed with player selectable gaming modes for players to participate in wagering games. The disclosed gaming systems and apparatuses provides for players to manually select between multiple playing modes, such as auto... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8133107 | Methods and devices for operating a modified bingo game Aspects of the present inventions concern methods and devices for operating a Bingo game. Such aspects include: assigning to each of a first set of real or virtual balls a number selected from a group within a predetermined numerical sequence; assigning a non-numeri... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8128478 | Gaming system, gaming device, and method for providing a game having a first evaluation based on drawn symbols and a second evaluation based on an order in which the symbols are drawn A gaming system displays a plurality of bingo cards each containing at least one column, each column having at least one square. Each square includes a random number selected from a range associated with that column. The gaming system displays each bingo card and an... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8123606 | Stud bingo The present invention provides methods and devices for providing wagering games having aspects of card games, such as poker games. Some implementations of the present invention involve methods and devices for providing such wagering games on a network of gaming mach... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123607 | Bingo game A method and gaming device for wagering on and playing a bingo-type game is disclosed. More particularly, a method allows a player to use strategy to select or daub a number of bingo balls in a bingo-type game and forgo daubing other balls, thereby adding a new leve... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8087990 | Method and system for conducting multiple concurrent bingo games A method for conducting bingo games includes using a server to collect game play requests from a plurality of electronic player stations. The server determines if a group of the collected game play requests meets one or more predefined conditions for establishing a ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8070585 | Game of chance and system and method for playing games of chance A game of chance is provided in which a predetermined fixed number of winning cell content drawn from a predetermined set of cell content. The drawn content is matched to the content on game cards and if the matched game card content covers a predetermined winning p... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8062117 | Bingo game apparatus with variable payout capability A Bingo game apparatus with variable payout capability has a server apparatus and multiple player terminals. The server apparatus runs a Bingo game program with variable payout capability. The Bingo game program with variable payout capability has acts of: accepting... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8057292 | Draw bingo The present invention provides methods and devices for providing a bingo game having aspects of a poker game on a network of gaming machines. Some implementations include a bingo card display in which areas of a bingo card correspond with playing cards. Some such im... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8029352 | Method, system, and program product for grouping game players by class Game play requests in a bingo gaming system are associated with different play characteristic classes and collected into different game play groups simultaneously according to play characteristic class. Once a sufficient number of game play requests are collected in... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8025561 | Gaming system and method for providing bingo wins A gaming system includes a plurality of gaming machines and a continual game sequence including a plurality of symbols and a plurality of sessions. Each session includes a number of games. At the beginning of a game sequence, the gaming system draws all of the symbo... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8002623 | Methods and devices for displaying multiple game elements This invention provides methods and devices for presenting a plurality of game elements on one or more display devices. The game elements may comprise, for example, bingo cards, playing cards, hands of playing cards, etc. Some implementations of the invention involv... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7993193 | Device and method for playing a bingo-like game In a matching-type game, at least two matrices of symbols are displayed, the matrices positioned so that they have at least one row, column or diagonal aligned with one another. A player attempts to obtain matches of the displayed symbols in the matrices, such as to... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7985130 | Method, apparatus, and program product for applying bonus designations in a bingo game Bonus designations are considered along with the regular game designations to distinguish between different pattern result levels in a bingo game. A set of one or more bonus designations is selected. Each bonus designation included in the set of bonus designations m... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7980943 | Multi-player bingo game with game-winning award selection The invention is directed to methods and gaming units for conducting a multi-player wagering game, such as a Bingo game, in which at least one of the players may win the occurrence of the wagering game by matching a predetermined game-winning pattern of game indicia... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7976375 | Player action incentive arrangement for gaming systems A processing device measures the time it takes for a player to take some action in a game and bases the award or result in the game for the player at least in part on that measured time. A player receives a more desirable result or outcome for a particular game play... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7955170 | Providing non-bingo outcomes for a bingo game The present invention provides methods and devices for providing a first wagering game (such as a bingo game) that presents a changing pool of displayed game outcomes for a second wagering game (such as a Class III game), preferably on a network of gaming machines. ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946915 | Multi-player bingo game with real-time game-winning pattern determination The invention is directed to methods and gaming units for conducting a multi-player wagering game, such as a Bingo game, in which at least one of the players may win the occurrence of the wagering game by matching a predetermined game-winning pattern of game indicia... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7938720 | Method and apparatus for presenting bingo gaming results using multiple prize distributions A method includes operating a bingo player station in a first play mode in which the result for a respective bingo game play initiated through the bingo player station is assigned according to a first pattern list. In response to detecting a trigger event, the bingo... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934987 | Method, apparatus, and program product for producing and using game play records in a bingo-type game A gaming system utilizes a game designation generating component, a gaming establishment component, and a set of predefined bingo card representations. Each bingo card representation is stored in electronic format as a data structure or data record defining a predef... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7896736 | System and method for simulating the outcome of an electronic bingo game as a blackjack game A game system and method plays an electronic game and simulates the outcome as a blackjack game. The game system allows a player to place a wager. The outcome of the electronic game includes a payout according to a first pay table if a set of predetermined winning c... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7892085 | Devices and methods for playing electronic bingo game An electronic bingo game and method for playing the same is disclosed. A bingo card having a plurality of numbered spaces is presented to a player, in which at least one of the numbered spaces is hidden to the player's view, thereby forming covered and uncovered por... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892084 | System and method for simulating the outcome of an electronic game as a keno game A game system and method plays an electronic game and simulates the outcome as a keno game. The game system allows a player to place a wager, plays the electronic game, and establishes an outcome of the electronic game. The outcome of the electronic game includes a ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7887407 | Method of extending play of a slot machine game The present invention extends a slot machine game by providing an initial opportunity to form winning symbol combinations and then, if any winning combinations appear in the symbol matrix, providing one or more subsequent opportunities by removing and replacing the ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7874907 | Devices and methods for feature ball bingo An electronic bingo game and method for playing the same wherein a random number generator selects bingo balls from a predetermined range that includes regular bingo balls (210) and one or more feature balls (208). As regular bingo balls (210) a... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7837550 | Method and device for conducting a game of chance One or more player Bingo cards are generated using a universe of Bingo indicia, optionally with player input. In an optional embodiment, the player may select all or a portion of the Bingo indicia on a player Bingo card, or regenerate a player Bingo card. A selectio... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7806762 | Bingo prize mapping system with prize promotion A promotion index value is produced for a player in a bingo game. This promotion index value is then used in assigning a prize to the player for their participation in the bingo game. In one embodiment, a particular bingo pattern achieved in a bingo game is associat... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7794319 | Bingo game system and method Presented is a system and method for generating bingo game bonuses that are non-banked, for use with pooled bingo games. The system generates pools of money for use in bingo games by deducting a percentage of the amount used to purchase bingo cards (in the present i... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7794318 | User alterable prize distribution and system for identifying results in games A gaming result system is provided with program products, methods, and apparatus to implement an updatable prize result structure. The result structure having several first level result identifiers and an additional second level result. First level results are each ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7766741 | Method, apparatus, and program product for presenting results in a bingo-type game Each bingo card representation matched with a game designation set in a given bingo game (a “matched bingo card representation”) represents a respective game play record providing a result in the bingo game. The result represented by a matched bingo card represe... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7749067 | Electronic bingo game player and method for playing electronic bingo An electronic game card allows participants to play multiple game faces, and enables simultaneous game play at different locations. A plurality of display faces are displayed on each card, and additional faces are stored for simultaneous play. Most probable winners ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7749066 | Enhanced process for gaming using multiple random progressive prize opportunities and bingo-type of gaming products thereby Novel enhanced gaming systems employ unique, specialized, for example, FIRESTAR ™ type of indicia disposed upon at least one location of a plurality of pre-mapped locations housed on, for example, a multiplicity of bingo-type of cards. Percentages of indicia array... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7736223 | Electronic gaming method and system having preview screen An electronic gaming method and system with a game preview display. A field of game symbols is presented on the game display to the player as a preview for deciding whether or not to play the displayed game. If the player decides to play the game, the player selects... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731581 | Multi-player bingo game with multiple alternative outcome displays The invention is directed to methods and gaming units for conducting a multi-player wagering game, such as a Bingo game, in which at least one of the players may win the occurrence of the wagering game by matching a predetermined game-winning pattern of game indicia... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7727064 | Interactive bingo gaming system and method A system and method of playing an interactive bingo game. Each game session comprises a plurality of game events in which the bingo game draws at least one bingo number from a set of bingo numbers. The player is provided with one or more bingo cards. The game drawn ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7717785 | Electronic bingo game and method A Bingo game and method are set forth wherein a player inputs a wager and at least one Bingo card is generated. A first outcome set is selected and compared to the indicia on the Bingo card. If a predetermined winning pattern(s) is obtained, the player receives a fi... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7717786 | Gaming machine and game having sequential symbol matching feature A game has the potential for multiple levels. Each level comprises a symbol matching event in which a set of base symbols are compared against a set of game symbol for potential matches. If a required minimum number of matches or another event is realized, the game ... | 05/18/2010 |
