Patent ID: 7955170
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for playing a game of chance, the method comprising: offering a game of chance for play on a gaming machine, wherein the game of chance is a bingo game; receiving an indication of player inputs to the gaming machine during play of the game of chance; determining payouts responsive to the player inputs, each payout corresponding to a zero payout or a non-zero payout; retrieving a non-bingo game outcome from a first area of a local memory of the gaming machine when the payouts correspond to the zero payout; retrieving a non-bingo game outcome from a second area of the local memory of the gaming machine when the payouts correspond to the non-zero payout; displaying the retrieved non-bingo game outcomes on the gaming machine during the play of the game of chance; generating, by the gaming machine, a first plurality of newly-generated non-bingo game outcomes corresponding to a first payout level of the game of chance, the first payout level comprising a zero payout level; generating, by the gaming machine, a second plurality of newly-generated non-bingo game outcomes corresponding to a second payout level of the bingo game, the second payout level comprising a non-zero payout level; saving the first plurality of newly-generated non-bingo game outcomes in the first area of the local memory of the gaming machine; and saving the second plurality of newly-generated non-bingo game outcomes in the second area of the local memory of the gaming machine, wherein the saving steps comprise replacing non-bingo game outcomes previously retrieved from the local memory.