Patent ID: 8777718

Claim:
An electronic gaming machine system comprising: (A) an electronic game engine including (1) a processor; (2) program-containing memory; (3) a player input terminal; (4) an electronic communications receiving and sending means for connecting the player input terminal to the processor; (5) a video monitor at the player input terminal; (B) the processor configured to execute software in program-containing memory to perform a process comprising: i) providing an image of a virtual playing card having m columns and n rows and diagonals of open frames at a monitor at player terminal, wherein each of m and n are at least 3; ii) providing a random distribution of individual numbers within the frames, the individual numbers selected from within a complete defined set of numbers, the complete defined set of numbers having predefined subsets of numbers that appear only in particular game card sections selected from the group consisting of rows or columns; iii) recognizing at least one wager at a player input terminal; iv) the player input terminal identifying to the processor a selected second set of play numbers from within the complete defined set of numbers, wherein the second set of play numbers is smaller than the complete defined set, v) the processor randomly selecting a predetermined number of numbers from each subset; vi) identifying on the monitor selected numbers from v) matching individual random numbers within the frames from iv); vii) identifying when consecutive frames have at least p matched individual random numbers within frames in a column, row or diagonal on a monitor at a player input terminal, wherein p is greater than 1 and up to m and n; viii) resolving the at least wager such that a) when matched individual random numbers do not form at least p adjacent frames, collecting the wager, and b) when matched individual random numbers do form at least p adjacent frames, resolving the at least one wager by providing credit at the player input terminal where the at least one wager was recognized.