Patent ID: 8167706

Claim:
A gaming system including: (a) a player station; (b) a user interface included with the player station, the user interface for (i) enabling a player using the player station to selectively enter a manual daub mode selection input and a card daub mode selection input, for (ii) enabling the player to make a game play request to enter a bingo card representation in a bingo game, the game play request comprising an input separate from the manual daub mode selection input and the card daub mode selection input, and for (iii) enabling the player to enter one or more required inputs in a course of play for a respective bingo game after the game play request for that game; and (c) a daub selection controller for setting a daub mode for the player station as a manual daub mode in response to the manual daub mode selection input and for setting the daub mode for the player station as a card daub mode in response to the card daub mode selection input, and (d) wherein the one or more required inputs for the respective bingo game when the player station is in the manual daub mode comprise manual player inputs to manually daub individual matched bingo card locations of the bingo card representation, and the one or more required inputs for the respective bingo game when the player station is in the card daub mode comprises a card daub input to which the player station responds by automatically daubing multiple matched bingo card locations of the bingo card representation.