Patent ID: 8915781

Claim:
A computer implemented method of providing mirage reveals of an award that is subject to an unachievable objective such that a user appears to have lost the award based on failing to achieve the objective, the method being implemented in a computer system having one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer system to perform the method, the method comprising: processing, by the computer system, an initiation of a real-world wager associated with a user; placing, by the computer system, the real-world wager; obtaining, by the computer system, an outcome of the real-world wager; determining, by the computer system, whether the outcome resulted in a loss; and responsive to a determination that the real-world wager resulted in the loss, providing, by the computer system, a mirage reveal of a payout that is subject to an unachievable objective that the user is guaranteed to fail to give an appearance that failure to achieve the unachievable objective resulted in the loss.