Patent ID: 8545301
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. In a computer-implemented system for playing a game of chance using a set of simulated game pieces associated with game symbols separable into subsets characterized by common types, a method for managing game play comprising: maintaining a map in a memory operatively associated with a computer, wherein the map defines one-to-many relationships between each type of a reference set of game symbol types and each type of a plurality of different playing sets of game symbol types; randomly allocating simulated game pieces to a plurality of players according to rules of a game of chance, using the computer; maintaining a reference game record of simulated game pieces in the memory during play of the game of chance using the computer, wherein the reference game record comprises information associating simulated game pieces according to the reference set with each of the plurality of players; and translating between each type of a reference set of game symbol types and each type of a plurality of different playing sets of game symbol types according to the map using the computer to provide, during play of the game, information describing each respective player's allocated game pieces expressed only in corresponding different ones of the plurality of different playing sets of game symbol types.