Patent ID: 7695362

Claim:
A method comprising: providing one or more cards to one or more players, the card including a plurality of spaces, each space in the plurality of spaces bearing at least one indicator falling within a plurality of indicia; selecting a number of indicators from the plurality of indicia, wherein the number of indicators from the plurality of indicia are selected consecutively for a first game, assigning the selected indicators to a first prize for the first game; storing “n” number of most-recently selected indicators from among the selected indicators in an ordered list within a queue, such that the ordered list contains the last “n” most-recently selected indicators from among the selected indicators and further wherein there are more selected indicators than “n” most recently selected indicators; selecting a latest indicator from the plurality of indicia consecutively following the selection of the selected indicators and storing the latest indicator in the queue of most-recently selected indicators as the latest selected indicator in the queue, and further removing an earliest consecutively selected indicator in the queue, wherein the queue is an ordered data structure within a data storage device accessible by a data processing system; reordering the indicators in the queue upon each subsequent selection of an indicator from the plurality of indicia by placing the latest selected indicator at the tail-end of the queue and deleting the indicator at the head-end of the queue, wherein the indicator at the head-end of the queue is the earliest selected indicator from among the plurality of indicia stored in the queue; assigning a second prize to the indicators in the queue; awarding the first prize to the one or more players if, at the end of the first game, the card has indicators matching all of the selected indicators; and awarding the second prize to one or more players for the first game if, at the end of the first game, the card has indicators matching the indicators in the queue.