Patent ID: 8425300

Claim:
A method for playing a wagering game of chance comprising acts of: permitting a player to purchase an entry into the wagering game of chance at a point of sale location; issuing a ticket to the player, the ticket representing the entry and including a code printed on a surface of the ticket; authenticating the ticket by sending the code from a host computer to a ticket validating computer server through a communications network, the ticket validating computer server separate from the host computer; determining results of the wagering game of chance on a outcome generating computer server separate from the host computer, the determination of the game results by the outcome generating computer server performed after the ticket is issued and prior to game play wherein the game of chance is free of player skill; providing for the player to play an online computer-based bingo game on a different medium than the issued ticket, wherein the printed code is entered by the player in an interface of the online computer-based bingo game to gain access to the bingo game to play the bingo game, wherein the bingo game includes one or more bingo cards, each having a plurality of indicia that, when matched in any one of a plurality of combinations, provides one or more prizes to the player, wherein the one or more prizes provided to the player are determined from the results of the wagering game of chance, and wherein a series of game states of the online computer-based bingo game is independent of the results of the wagering game of chance; obtaining a result of the online computer-based bingo game by communicating the code over a communication network from the different medium to an outcome storage computer server on which the results of the wagering game of chance is stored, the outcome storage computer server on which the game results are stored being separate from the different medium; displaying, to the player in the interface, the results of the wagering game of chance responsive to play of the online bingo game; and providing for the player to redeem the ticket at the point of sale location.