Patent ID: 6368213
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A device for playing an electronic Keno game including at least two ways comprising:a display; a processor to control the display, said processor including means for randomly selecting an outcome set of twenty numbers from a field of eighty numbers 1-80 and for controlling the display to display a Keno card defining a matrix of said field numbers; means for accepting a wager; selecting means for a player to select at the matrix (a) a total number N of numbers to be played and (b) a way defined by a subset W of numbers of N, said selecting means sending signals to the processor and said processor in response thereto (i) storing the numbers corresponding to N and W and (ii) controlling the display to distinguish the numbers of W from the numbers of N; means for prompting play of the device, said processor in response to prompting play randomly selecting an outcome set and comparing said outcome set to the numbers of N and W; and means for issuing a reward to the player if a predetermined correspondence exists between the numbers of the outcome set and the numbers of N or W.