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Apparatus, method, and program product for conducting a bingo game to produce card game-type results

a technology of bingo and card game, applied in the field of bingo gaming system, can solve the problems of limiting the acceptance of bingo by a wider audience, graphical presentation of prior bingo games may seem relatively uninteresting or less exciting than competing games, and achieve the effect of increasing player interes

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-10-06
MULTIMEDIA GAMES
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[0006] The present invention includes a method, apparatus, and program product for conducting a bingo game to produce card game-type results. By producing card game-type results, a bingo game according to the present invention may imitate popular card games such as poker, and thereby increase player interest.

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Although paper and electronically implemented bingo games remain popular to many gaming participants, there have traditionally been aspects of bingo games which limit acceptance of bingo by a wider audience.
Most importantly, the graphical presentation of prior bingo games may seem relatively uninteresting or less exciting than competing games, such as reel-type (slot machine) games, and other traditional casino game games, particularly casino card games.

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[0017] The claims at the end of this application set out novel features which the Applicants believe are characteristics of the invention. The various advantages and features of the invention together with preferred modes of use of the invention will best be understood by reference to the following description of illustrative embodiments read in conjunction with the drawings introduced above.

[0018] As shown in FIG. 1, a gaming apparatus 100 embodying the principles of the invention includes at least one player display device 101 and a respective player interface device 102. Each respective pair of player display device 101 and player interface device 102 is preferably included in a respective player station 103. Gaming apparatus 100 also includes a central processing device or system 104 which implements a designation set controller 106, a matching controller 108, and an award controller 110.

[0019] As will be described further below in connection with the flow diagram of FIG. 5, d...

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Apparatus, methods, and program products for a bingo game are described for selecting a group of designations from an overall set of designations and matching the selected group of designations to designations associated with the locations on a player card. Each designation in the overall set of designations corresponds to a playing card in a standard playing card deck. Matching the group of designations with the player card designations produces a number of matched locations on the player card. These matched locations are used to determine a playing card hand and a player is awarded the result of the game based on the playing card hand.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] The Applicants claim the benefit, under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e), of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 557,899 filed Mar. 31, 2004, and entitled “Apparatus, Method, And Program Product For Conducting A Bingo Game To Produce Card Game-Type Results.” The entire content of this provisional application is incorporated herein by this reference.TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention relates to gaming and gaming systems, and, more particularly, to a bingo gaming system that may be used to simulate the play of a card game such as poker. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] The game known as “bingo” is played with predefined bingo cards that each include a number of bingo designations such as numbers, letters, or other symbols, randomly arranged in a desired manner, commonly in a grid. The bingo designations on the cards are selected from an overall set of available designations. In traditional bingo games the cards are physicall...

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IPC IPC(8): A63F9/24G07F17/32
CPCG07F17/32G07F17/3276G07F17/3293
Inventor LIND, CLIFTONLIND, JEFFERSON C.
Owner MULTIMEDIA GAMES
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