Patent ID: 9600973
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by an acceptor, a physical item associated with a monetary value; (b) establishing, by one or more processors, a credit balance based at least in part on the monetary value associated with the received physical item; (c) displaying, by at least one display device, a keno board including a set of available numbers; (d) receiving an actuation of a wager button; (e) placing, by the one or more processors, a wager in response to said actuation of the wager button, said wager being deductable from the credit balance; (f) receiving, by at least one input device, a first selection of a player number set including one or more of a set of available numbers; (g) associating, by the one or more processors, a proxy number with one of the one or more numbers of the player number set, wherein the proxy number is different from the number in the player number set with which it is associated; (h) randomly selecting, using the one or more processors, a set of drawn numbers from the set of available numbers; (i) determining, by the one or more processors, a quantity of hits by comparing the player number set and the proxy number with the drawn numbers, wherein the one of the one or more numbers in the player number set is hit if: (k) determining, by the one or more processors, any award based on a total quantity of hits and displaying, by the at least one display device, the determined award, the credit balance being increasable by the determined award; and (l) initiating, by the one or more processors, a payout associated with the credit balance following receipt of an actuation of a cashout button.