Patent ID: 7464933

Claim:
A method of playing a game of chance between a plurality of players and a House, wherein each player has a game piece comprising a set of indicators, and a winner is determined if a player's set of indicators matches a winning set of indicators randomly determined by the House, wherein the method ensures there can be only a single winner, said method comprising: determining by the House, a pool of possible indicators; dividing the pool of possible indicators into a predefined number of divisions; for each division, calculating the number of unique combinations of the indicators in the division taken in groups equal in size to the number of indicators in each player's set of indicators; associating each unique combination with one of a plurality of game pieces; providing the plurality of game pieces to the players, the number of game pieces being equal to the number of unique combinations of indicators; randomly selecting indicators from the pool of possible indicators until all of the indicators in a first unique combination have been selected; and determining a single winner as the player having the one and only one game piece associated with the first unique combination.