Patent ID: 7749067
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A system for one or more participants electronically mimicking in real time conventional bingo play employing printed paper faces displaying arrays of printed numbers in play at selected locations on each face and manual markers for marking numbers called during play; tracking bingo play; and announcing calls from a central location to allow multiple participants to play multiple faces in an electronic game of bingo played simultaneously at different remote locations comprising: a server at the central location for receiving data from the remote locations, said data representing the number of participants at each location and the number of faces assigned to the participants at each such locations; a local computer at each location for registering the participants and faces assigned to each respective participant, and for communicating data representing called numbers to the server; a first communications link between the central location and the remote locations for communicating calls announced to the participants at the various locations for recordation by the participants thereat; an electronic game player assigned to the one or more participants, each said electronic game player comprising: an annunciator for providing an indication to the player of a winning combination of called numbers stored in the storage device for the device.