Patent ID: 7128320

Claim:
A method of playing a baseball-based bingo game system to be played with an on-going live baseball game in combination with a bingo game covering one or more lines of bingo game sheets, the bingo game system comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of bingo game sheets, each bingo game sheet having: five rows and five columns which intersect to form a five by five matrix having twenty five zones, each zone being associated with a play or event; the five columns corresponding to the first to fifth innings of a baseball game, respectively; the first, second, fourth, and fifth rows corresponding to the sixth to ninth innings of the baseball game, respectively; the third row corresponding to a special zone having five zones, each corresponding to a special play or event regardless of the inning number; and an identifying means for identifying a particular baseball game and an arrangement of the twenty-five zones; providing memorizing means for memorizing the arrangement of the twenty-five zones of each bingo game sheet with the corresponding identifying means; providing controlling means for monitoring plays and events occurring in the on-going baseball game and determining how many lines are covered in each bingo game sheet; watching a live baseball game; if a play or event occurs during an inning of the live baseball game, then covering the zone in that corresponding column or row if a zone in the corresponding column or row has that corresponding play or event; playing the special zone during any inning; if a play or event occurs during any inning, then covering the zone in the special zone that has the corresponding play or event regardless of the inning; and wherein one or more winners of the bingo game are classified by the number of the covered lines on the bingo game sheet, said number of winners determined by a lottery if the number of the bingo game sheets qualified for a prize award is more than an expected number of winners.