Patent ID: 8123606

Claim:
A gaming method, comprising: receiving a game outcome by a machine that controls a display device; displaying, on the display device, N bingo cards to each of a plurality of players, where N is a first predetermined integer and wherein each bingo card of the N bingo cards provides a correspondence between areas on the N bingo cards and playing cards; drawing M random bingo numbers corresponding to areas of at least some of the N bingo cards, where M is a second predetermined integer; displaying on the display device, hits on the N bingo cards based on the M random bingo numbers; allowing each player of the plurality of players an opportunity to select at least one bingo card from the N bingo cards for continued game play; offering, for a fee, to draw one or more extra random bingo numbers in addition to the M random bingo numbers before a bingo card is selected; drawing, after the at least one bingo card has been selected, additional random bingo numbers; and displaying hits on each player's selected bingo card until at least one interim win pattern is completed.