Patent ID: 8475262

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: at least one gaming device, said at least one gaming device including at least one input device; at least one display device associated with said at least one gaming device; and at least one controller configured to operate with said at least one gaming device and said at least one display device to, for a play of a skill-based game: (a) display: (i) a quantity of points associated with a player, and (ii) a quantity of points associated with a designated award, (b) enable the player to make at least one quantifiable skill input, (c) if the at least one quantifiable skill input causes a player point modification event to occur, modify the quantity of points associated with the player, (d) if the modified quantity of points associated with the player has not reached the quantity of points associated with the designated award, repeat (b) to (d) until the modified quantity of points associated with the player reaches the quantity of points associated with the designated award, and (e) when the modified quantity of points associated with the player reaches the quantity of points associated with the designated award: (i) randomly determine whether to provide the designated award to the player, wherein said random determination is based, at least in part, on a probability of being provided the designated award and said probability of being provided the designated award is based, at least in part, on a quantity of times (b) to (d) were repeated until the modified quantity of points associated with the player reached the quantity of points associated with the designated award, and (ii) if the determination is to provide the designated award to the player, provide the player the designated award.