Patent ID: 7073793

Claim:
A method for playing a casino game comprising: receiving a wager from a player in the casino game to play an underlying game of chance and a survey-based bonus game; playing the underlying game of chance in the casino game in response to receiving the wager; paying the player, in the casino game, a game of chance award when the player wins during play of the underlying game of chance, the game of chance award at least based on the received wager; ending the casino game in response to paying the game of chance award; upon occurrence of a random bonus event in the casino game, presenting to the player in a display of the survey-based bonus game a survey question and a plurality of responses to said survey question by a number of people surveyed; receiving at least one input in the survey-based bonus game from the player responsive to said presented survey question, said at least one input including at least one of said plurality of responses; paying the player, in the casino game, a bonus award, the value of the bonus award at least a function of how many people in said number of people provided the at least one of said plurality of responses included in said at least one input received from the player, the bonus award awarded separately from the game of chance award; and ending the casino game in response to paying the bonus award.