Patent ID: 7326116

Claim:
A method for providing and selecting a pre-configured game on a gaming machine, the method comprising: providing a plurality of default games of different types in a memory device accessible to the gaming machine, each default game having pre-configured game parameters defining a default configuration of the default game, the pre-configured game parameters stored in a memory location accessible to the gaming machine; obtaining player game configuration data, the data including one or more inputs of game characteristics desired by the player; comparing the one or more inputs of game characteristics desired by the player with the pre-configured game parameters of the plurality of default games; selecting, based on the comparison, one or more of the plurality of default games of different types having pre-configured game parameters most closely associated with the game characteristics desired by the player; displaying a list of the selected default games on a display; receiving an indication from a player representative of a chosen default game from the displayed list of selected default games; receiving a wager from the player; displaying a video image representative of the chosen default game; executing the chosen default game according to the default configuration of the chosen default game; determining a game outcome associated with the executed default game represented by the video image; and determining a value payout associated with the game outcome.