Patent ID: 7086945

Claim:
A method for operating a casino game of chance in response to a wager against a house, the casino game of chance having random entry from a base game to a bonus game, the method for playing the casino game of chance comprising: providing in a display a plurality of paths for play of the bonus game upon random entry from the base game, each of the plurality of paths having a plurality of positions, at least one of the plurality of positions having an associated value; displaying a random number of moves in the bonus game under control of the casino game of chance; moving an indicia, in response to the provided random number of moves, along one path of said plurality of paths a corresponding number of positions corresponding to the displayed random number of moves to land on a position in the display; repeating the aforesaid steps of displaying and moving in response to landing on the position until the bonus game ends; awarding, in the bonus game, based upon any value associated with each position landed on; providing a fixed player expected value yielding an overall house advantage for all play of the casino game of chance, in the bonus game for each of the plurality of paths.