Patent ID: 7785182
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a card-based wagering game at a gaming terminal, the method comprising the acts of: receiving a wager via an input interface associated with the gaming terminal; displaying, on a display associated with the gaming terminal, a plurality of first cards initially arranged as a pyramid in an array having multiple rows of cards, a top row of the array having one face-up card and each immediately lower row of the array having the same number of face-up cards as the immediately previous row plus one additional face-up card, a bottom row in the array having one more face-up card than the row of cards immediately above the bottom row, the bottom row in the array being the only row of cards in the array that are initially selectable; displaying, on the display, a plurality of second cards initially arranged as one or more stacks of cards with the top card in each stack being face-up, wherein each face-up top card of the second cards is selectable, each of the first cards and the second cards having a rank; using the input interface, selecting an initial round of one or more cards from the selectable first cards or the selectable second cards such that selecting the initial round occurs after the displaying of the plurality of first cards and the displaying of the plurality of second cards; using a processor associated with the gaming terminal, determining an outcome based on the ranks of the selected initial round of one or more cards; if the outcome based on the ranks is a predetermined outcome, removing the initial round of one or more cards, wherein if a selectable card from the second cards was selected, the card below the selected card from the stack of cards becomes the new top card, and wherein if the cards from the bottom row of the array are all removed, the row of cards immediately above the initial bottom row of the array become selectable; repeating the selecting, determining, and removing acts until no subsequent round of one or more cards has a predetermined outcome or until all of the plurality of first cards are removed; and awarding a first award for removing all of the plurality of first cards.