Patent ID: 7845641

Claim:
Memory holding executable instructions that, when executed by a logic subsystem, cause a computing system to: receive a stake from a player; deal an initial subset of incrementally indexed game items from a set of game items including a plurality of ranked value items; and then iteratively begin a new phase of a press-your-luck challenge, each phase comprising: dealing an active subset of incrementally indexed game items from the set of game items such that a subset of game items that was dealt immediately prior to the new phase becomes an immediately previous subset of game items, where the active subset of game items is defeated by the immediately previous subset of game items if, for any value item from the active subset of game items, that value item has a rank that is equal to a rank of a value item from the immediately previous subset of name items having an index equal-to or one-less-than an index of that value item; if the active subset of game items is defeated by the immediately previous subset of game items, ending the press-your-luck challenge; if the active subset of game items is not defeated by the immediately previous subset of game items, offering the player a return equal to a total value of the active subset of game items; if the player accepts the return, awarding the player the return and ending the press-your-luck challenge; and if the player declines the return, beginning a subsequent phase of the press-your-luck challenge.