Patent ID: 7896736

Claim:
A game system for playing an electronic game, comprising: a player game device for allowing a player to place a wager, the player game device including a user interface; and, a game controller coupled to the player game device for playing the electronic game and establishing an outcome of the electronic game, the electronic game being a bingo game, the outcome of the electronic game including a payout according to a first pay table if a set of predetermined winning conditions has been achieved, the game controller further for simulating a blackjack game on the player device by allowing the player to make decisions during the simulation using the user interface, the outcome of the blackjack game being responsive to the decisions made by the player and equivalent to the outcome of the electronic game, wherein if the outcome of the electronic game is a loss to the player, then the game controller deals cards to the player that can never add up to 21, the game controller then deals cards to the dealer that beat the player's cards.