Patent ID: 7338371

Claim:
A method for operating a wagering game comprising: enabling a player to provide a wager; providing an opportunity for the player to play a series of sub-games based on the wager, each one of the sub-games being a part of the wagering game, wherein, for a play of at least a first one of the sub-games, the providing step comprises: (a) selecting at least a first, a second and a third challenge indicium from a set of ranked indicia; (b) singly displaying each one of the first and second selected challenge indicia; (c) after each one of the first and second challenge indicium is displayed, enabling the player to predict a relative ranking of a subsequent challenge indicium with respect to said displayed challenge indicium; and (d) displaying the third selected challenge indicium after the prediction is received for the third selected challenge indicium; determining whether each one of the player's predictions is a correct prediction or an incorrect prediction; determining a performance based on how many of the correct predictions occur in comparison to how many of the incorrect predictions occur; and determining whether to repeat steps (a) through (d) for a play of a second one of the sub-games, wherein said determination is based, at least in part, on the performance which has at least one incorrect prediction.