Patent ID: 8162736

Claim:
A method for playing a game of chance comprising: distributing game cards from a set of game cards to a plurality of players, each of the game cards in the set displaying at least one game face which includes a set of indicia selected from a pool of indicia; providing a plurality of jackpot levels including a first jackpot level and at least one elevated level, the at least one elevated level including a second jackpot level; playing a game of chance in which the players match indicia randomly called from the pool of indicia with the indicia in a matrix of the respective game face; identifying a game face in which a set of the called indicia form a first configuration on a game card from the plurality of distributed game cards; after identifying the game face with the first configuration, comparing a predetermined one of the called indicia displayed on the identified game face with a first jackpot number; providing for raising a jackpot level from the first jackpot level to the second jackpot level if there is a match between the predetermined one of the indicia displayed on the identified game face and the first jackpot number; identifying a game face with a winning game configuration; determining whether the game face with the winning game configuration qualifies for a jackpot award at one of the at least one elevated jackpot levels, based at least in part on one of the indicia of the winning game face and on whether the jackpot level is raised to one of the elevated levels.