Patent ID: 7708634

Claim:
A method including: (a) via one or more processors, conducting a bingo game for a set of players to produce a game ending pattern for a game winning player included in the set of players, the game ending pattern being achieved by matching a set of initial game designations in the bingo game to a bingo card of the game winning player; (b) via at least one of the processors, generating a first random number and making the following decision in response to the first random number's value: (i) in response to the first random number being inside a first range, choosing to employ zero additional game designations in the bingo game; (ii) in response to the first random number being inside a second range, choosing to employ a first, non-zero amount of additional game designations in the bingo game; and (iii) in response to the first random number being inside a third range, choosing to employ a second, non-zero amount of additional game designations in the bingo game, different from the first, non-zero amount; and (c) after step (b), via at least one of the processors, identifying a final result in the bingo game for at least one player included in the set of players, the final result being identified based on a pattern achieved by either matching the set of initial game designations or the set of initial game designations and a set of additional game designations, of the first or second non-zero amount, to the bingo card of the at least one player.