Patent ID: 7749075

Claim:
A method of wagering a residual credit of a gaming machine to win a prize having a prize value, the residual credit being equivalent to units of monetary value which is held within the gaming machine and is indispensable by the gaming machine, the gaming machine using a denomination and having at least one processor, the method comprising: determining by the at least one processor a range of random numbers as a function of the prize value, said range of random numbers has an upper limit; determining by the at least one processor at least one winnable outcome value dependent on the value of the residual credit indispensable by the gaming machine, the number of winnable outcome values including an outcome upper limit; randomly generating by the at least one processor an outcome from the range of random numbers; comparing by the at least one processor the generated outcome in relation to the winnable outcome value; awarding the prize from the gaming machine if the generated outcome relationally matches any of the winnable outcome values; determining by the at least one processor the upper limit by dividing the prize value by the denomination; and determining by the at least one processor the outcome upper limit by dividing the residual credit by the denomination of the gaming machine.