Patent ID: 8747205

Claim:
A method of conducting a wagering game on a gaming machine, the method comprising: receiving, via an input device, a single wager from a player to purchase a series of plays of a basic portion of the game, the series of plays comprising a fixed number of plays of the wagering game, the single wager being allocated to the entire series of plays and not being associated with any specific one of the series of plays, the single wager being an amount made by any player such that different players pay the same amount; in response to the single wager, providing, on at least one display device, the player with the series of plays of the basic portion of the wagering game, the wagering game including a plurality of outcomes, the plurality of outcomes including a plurality of winning outcomes corresponding to first awards to be awarded to the player, the plurality of winning outcomes including different winning outcomes having corresponding different ones of the first awards; randomly selecting, by use of at least one processor, at least one outcome from the plurality of outcomes for each play in the series of plays of the basic portion of the wagering game; in response to the randomly selected outcome being one of the plurality of different winning outcomes in any one of the plays, providing the player with the first award corresponding to the randomly selected outcome; and providing an accumulation feature that accumulates a game-play element of the game over a plurality of the plays in the series of plays of the basic portion of the wagering game, the accumulated game-play element providing a second award to the player in response to a predetermined criterion being met, the accumulation feature is reset to include no accumulated game-play elements prior to each purchased series of plays.