Patent ID: 8905835

Claim:
A method including: (a) collecting game play requests from a number of player stations into a first group of game play requests at a gaming server in communication with each of the number of player stations, wherein: (i) each game play request in the first group of game play requests is transmitted to the gaming server from a respective one of the player stations responsive to a respective input for a respective player at that respective player station; (ii) each game play request in the first group of game play requests constitutes a request to enter any one of a number of bingo games to be conducted through the gaming server, and is associated with a respective wager for the respective player in the respective bingo game to be entered; (iii) each game play request in the first group of game play requests represents a request for a respective result in the bingo game to be entered; and (iv) each game play request in the first group of game play requests being associated with a respective bingo card representation stored in a data storage device associated with the gaming server; (b) determining if the first group of game play requests meets a predefined condition for a first quorum required to conduct a first bingo game for the first group of game play requests; (c) responsive to meeting the predefined condition for the first quorum, conducting the first bingo game at the gaming server with the first group of game play requests, the first bingo game being conducted by matching a plurality of bingo designations against the bingo card representations associated with the game play requests in the first group of game play requests and identifying a respective result for each bingo card representation associated with a respective game play request in the first group of game play requests; (d) collecting game play requests from the number of player stations into a second group of game play requests at the gaming server while conducting a portion of the first bingo game, wherein: (i) each game play request in the second group of game play requests is transmitted to the gaming server responsive to a respective input for a respective player at a respective one of the player stations; (ii) each game play request in the second group of game play requests constitutes a request to enter any one of the number of bingo games to be conducted through the gaming server, and is associated with a respective wager for the respective player in the bingo game to be entered; (iii) each game play request in the second group of game play requests represents a request for a respective result in the bingo game to be entered; and (iv) each game play request in the second group of game play requests being associated with a respective bingo card representation in the data storage device associated with the gaming server; and (e) while conducting a portion of the first bingo game, determining if the second group of game play requests meets a predefined condition for a second quorum.