Patent ID: 8651937

Claim:
An apparatus comprising a machine-readable medium having computer program code stored thereon which when executed by a machine causes said machine to perform a method of conducting an electronic bingo game variation, said method comprising: generating a first electronic bingo card for an electronic bingo game, wherein said first electronic bingo card comprises a matrix of squares, each square comprising an assigned character chosen from a predetermined set of available characters; drawing a bingo ball comprising a character selected from said predetermined set of available characters, and continuing to draw additional bingo balls until a complete drawing pool has been created; comparing said character of each bingo ball in said complete drawing pool to each said assigned character of said first electronic bingo card to determine a match; electronically daubing said match on said first electronic bingo card, thereby creating a pattern by said daubing on said first electronic bingo card; comparing said pattern to a set of qualifying patterns to confirm said pattern is in said set of qualifying patterns, thereby identifying said first electronic bingo card as a qualifying electronic bingo card; offering a second chance to win for said qualifying electronic bingo card, said second chance to win comprising: repopulating said each square of said qualifying electronic bingo card, exclusive of said each square of said qualifying pattern, each with a new character selected from said set of available characters to create a second electronic bingo card; and applying said complete drawing pool to said second electronic bingo card to identify said second electronic bingo card as a winner.