Patent ID: 7806762

Claim:
A method including: (a) Following a player initiated input at a player station, generating a game play request; (b) identifying an initial index value for the game play request, the initial index value being correlated to a pattern achieved for the game play request in the bingo game; (c) without any further inputs from the player other than one or more player inputs to generate the game play request for the player and identify the initial index value for the game play request, generating a random number, identifying a promotion index value for the game play request using the random number, the promotion index value being the applied to modify a bingo game prize for the game play request; and (d) assigning to the player the bingo game prize for the game play request in the bingo game, wherein the bingo game prize is a credit value based in part on the initial index value and based in part on the promotion index value.