Patent ID: 8298061

Claim:
A methodology of playing a game comprised of the following steps, but not necessarily in the order shown: (A) providing a set of gaming symbols; (B) selecting from the set of gaming symbols, one or more winning gaming symbols for the play of the game, the selecting of one or more winning gaming symbols occurs prior to providing at least one playing card; and the selecting of one or more winning gaming symbols is preformed anew for each game; (C) providing at least one playing card, the playing card is created using the one or more gaming symbols selected from the set of gaming symbols, presenting one or more gaming symbols for the play of the game; (D) publishing one or more winning gaming symbols prior to the distribution of at least one playing card; (E) distributing at least one playing card to at least one gaming participant; (F) comparing the gaming symbols of the distributed playing card with the selected one or more winning gaming symbols to determine if the distributed playing card has any gaming symbols that match the one or more winning gaming symbols to establish the playing card as a winning game card; and (G) playing a primary game using a set of playing symbols, one or more playing symbols of the primary game being presented by the playing card, the play of the primary game being separate from the game.