Patent ID: 8485884

Claim:
A method of providing a game of chance that enables players to control an outcome of the game of chance, the method including: providing communication devices to the players for communicating game data in the game of chance; providing game modules to the players that are used in the game of chance; transferring preferred game parameters from the communication devices of the players to a central processor, the preferred game parameters representative of votes of the players for a desired game datum of the game of chance, at least one of the preferred game parameters representative of a collaborative vote of a subset of the players that is formed by the subset of the players prior to transferring the collaborative vote to the central processor; processing the preferred game parameters to determine an actual game datum in the game of chance based on the votes; and transferring the actual game datum to the players for input to the game modules, wherein the actual game datum at least partially determines the outcome of the game of chance.