Patent ID: 7553232
Filing Date: 2009-06-30
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: (a) displaying a plurality of sequentially ordered events by a machine and permitting a player to select a range including a fewer number of the sequentially ordered events from among the displayed plurality of sequentially ordered events, for each event of which an outcome is determined at least partly by chance and is as yet not known to the player; (b) prior to determining actual outcomes of the events, simulating the outcomes of each of the sequentially ordered events in the range by the machine based on a probability that a predetermined outcome will occur and automatically indicating by the machine to the player predicted winnings based on a (j) first (i=1)th predicted result of simulating the outcome of a first (i=1)th one of the events, and, (jj) for each of the plurality of events from a second (i=2)th event to an nth (i=n) event, an ith predicted result of simulating the outcome of an ith event accumulated with the (i−1)th result, wherein the (i−1)th result simulates the outcome of an (i−1)th event accumulated with any (i−2)th result, if any (i−2)th result exists; (c) permitting the player to select one of the predicted results from among the predicted first through nth results indicated by the machine; (d) indicating by the machine that an account is credited for the player with predicted winnings according to the player-selected predicted result; (e) permitting the player by the machine to utilize the predicted winnings to determine actual outcomes of at least some of the events and adjusting an amount in the account based on the actual outcomes; and (f) after the actual outcomes of a minimum number of the events have been determined, permitting the player by the machine to retain the adjusted amount in the account as actual winnings.