Patent ID: 8475266

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming system, comprising: providing by the gaming system a gambling game that receives a wager of a real world credit and determines a gambling outcome using the wager; providing by the gaming system an entertainment game that does not receive wagers of real world credit and determines accumulation of game world credit based on a player's operation of the entertainment game; receiving by the gaming system the wager of the real world credit; creating by the gaming system an enabling element for the entertainment game based on the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game, the enabling element consumed by operation of the entertainment game by the player; correlating by the gaming system the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game with the enabling element of the entertainment game by triggering the execution of the gambling game to consume the wager of the real word credit in the gambling game and determine the gambling outcome of the gambling game, when the player operates the entertainment game and consumes the enabling element; and accumulating by the gaming system the game world credit based on the player's operation of the entertainment game and consumption of the enabling element that triggers the wager of the real world credit in the gambling game during the player's operation of the entertainment game.