Patent ID: 7056212

Claim:
A method for implementing a bonus game on an electronic gaming machine, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a player wager on the gaming machine for a base game, said gaming machine being provided with a bonus game having multiple B-I-N-G-O cards, each card including five columns that are each associated with a particular B-I-N-G-O letter, and a plurality of peripheral spaces with each peripheral space corresponding to a respective column on a respective card or cards, each column having a sequential order within its respective card; (b) detecting if said player wager on said base game is a maximum bet wager; (c) responsive to the detection of the maximum bet wager, selecting under control of a processor operating on the gaming machine one of the plurality of peripheral spaces corresponding to the respective column on the respective B-l-N-G-O card or cards; (d) playing the respective B-I-N-G-O card or cards; (e) lighting the column associated with a B peripheral space only if the selected peripheral space corresponds to the B column on the respective B-I-N-G-O card or cards; (f) receiving a next player wager on the gaming machine for the base game and detecting if said next player wager is a maximum bet wager; (g) responsive to the detection of the next maximum bet wager, selecting under control of the processor a next one of the plurality of peripheral spaces corresponding to the respective column on the respective B-I-N-G-O card or cards; (h) determining whether the selected next one of the plurality of peripheral spaces corresponds to a next sequential column on the respective B-I-N-G-O card or cards, and playing the respective B-I-N-G-O card or cards if the space corresponds; (i) lighting the column associated with the selected next peripheral space only if the selected next peripheral space corresponds to the next sequential column on the respective B-I-N-G-O card or cards; and (j) repeating steps (f) through (i) to form a completed B-I-N-G-O card and awarding a bonus prize for the completed B-I-N-G-O card.