Patent ID: 7294054

Claim:
A method of wagering, the method comprising: receiving from a player a wager on a selected piece from a plurality of pieces; displaying, advancing and completing a game of chance progression of the plurality of pieces; if the selected piece completes the progression ahead of non-selected pieces, paying an award based on the wager to a player; and if the selected piece completes the progression behind one of the non-selected pieces, taking the wager from the player, wherein the completing comprises continuing to receive additional wager(s) from the player after at least one piece has moved but before the game is completed, the wagers having respective payouts based on probabilities of respective pieces completing the progression first based on respective positions of the pieces, wherein the advancing advances the plurality of pieces simultaneously, wherein each piece of the plurality of pieces is assigned its own respective random number generator and is advanced according to a random outcome of its respective random number generator.