Patent ID: 7217187

Claim:
A method of operating a casino game comprising: displaying, before receiving any player input in the casino game, a randomly selected decision-making game round, the randomly displayed decision-making game round having a plurality of possible player inputs; receiving at least one player input of the plurality of possible player inputs from a player that plays the randomly displayed decision-making game round in the casino game, the randomly displayed decision-making game round having a player's expected value, that is a function of the received at least one input; randomly displaying, before receiving the at least one input, at least one hint in at least any one of the randomly displayed decision-making game rounds, each at least one displayed hint providing information, when randomly displayed to the player, concerning at least one of the plurality of possible player inputs for the randomly displayed decision-making round to increase the player's expected return, improving the player's expected return if the player follows the hint and selects the at least one of the plurality of possible player inputs corresponding to the hint wherein the aforesaid at least one displayed hint is provided from a set consisting of written or stated information.