Patent ID: 7708632
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method including the steps of: (a) issuing a physical bingo card, the physical bingo card being associated with a card bingo structure; (b) scanning the physical bingo card at a player station to produce a scan output and applying pattern recognition to the scan output in identifying the card bingo structure through the player station; (c) collecting a game play request entered from the player station with at least one additional game play request to form a first game group, the game play request being associated with the card bingo structure and each additional game play request in the first game group being associated with a respective additional bingo structure; (d) conducting a bingo game between the card bingo structure and each additional bingo structure to identify a bingo game result for the card bingo structure; and (e) displaying the bingo game result for the card bingo structure at the player station.