Patent ID: 8523653

Claim:
A method for operating a gaming system, the method including: (a) with a data processing system included in the gaming system, identifying a game ending result for a first bingo card representation included in a group of bingo card representations entered in a bingo game, the game ending result being produced upon matching the first bingo card representation with a game ending number of game designations from a designation draw for the bingo game; (b) with the data processing system, identifying a bingo game result for at least one other bingo card representation in the group of bingo card representations, the bingo game result for the at least one other bingo card representation comprising an additional winning result defined by a predetermined additional winning pattern of card locations, the additional winning pattern of card locations being dissimilar to the game ending pattern of card locations; (c) displaying a game ending result representation at an electronic player station in the gaming system for a player associated with the first bingo card representation, the game ending result representation being correlated to the game ending pattern of card locations and including a graphical representation imitating a result in a game other than bingo; and (d) displaying an additional result representation at an electronic player station in the gaming system for a player associated with the at least one other bingo card representation, the additional result representation being correlated to the additional winning pattern of card locations and including a graphical representation imitating an additional result in the game other than bingo, wherein the game other than bingo includes a reel-type game in which a respective result is shown by a number of spinning reels which come to rest to display an array of indicia.