Patent ID: 7563163

Claim:
A gaming device operable under control of at least one processor, said gaming device comprising: at least one display device adapted to display a game; at least one input device; and at least one data storage device operable to store a plurality of pools of predetermined game outcomes; said at least one processor programmed to communicate with at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, wherein upon initiation of a play of said game, said instructions are executable by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device, the at least one data storage device, and the at least one input device to: (a) select one of the pools to be in a set of pools; (b) draw one of the predetermined game outcomes from the selected pool; (c) provide the drawn predetermined game outcome to the player, wherein each drawn predetermined game outcome is prevented from being provided again to any player until all of the predetermined game outcomes in the selected pools have been drawn; (d) repeat (b) to (c) until a predetermined event occurs; and (e) following the occurrence of the predetermined event, select at least another one of the pools to be in the set of pools for at least one subsequent play of the game, wherein the predetermined event is the selected pool includes a number of remaining predetermined game outcomes greater than one and less than a predetermined number and for said at least one subsequent play of the game, one of the predetermined game outcomes is drawn from any one of the selected pools in the set of pools with at least one available predetermined game outcome in said pool.