Patent ID: 9672699
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A method executed by a server that provides access to remote users for playing an online game over the internet, the method comprising: defining a plurality of tiers for playing the Drill online game that includes turns, each tier being assigned an odds value for winning a chance to play a bonus game, the odds value of each tier being different from the odds value of other tiers from the plurality of tiers; receiving user input during the online game, wherein the user input defines a bet for playing each turn; selecting at random a tier from the plurality of tiers at each turn; playing each turn with the selected random tier, wherein chances to win the bonus game at each turn are based on the selected tier; and providing an option to play the bonus game when a player wins the chance to play the bonus game during a turn, wherein operations of the method are executed by at least a processor of the server.