Patent ID: 8517380

Claim:
A game of chance having 2 nd game of chance operating within the structure of a 1 st game of chance having defined 1 st game characteristics by a House wherein the game ensures that there can only be a single winning game piece in the 2 nd game of chance; the game comprising: a flashboard provided by the House for use in the 1 st game of chance, the flashboard comprising a predetermined pool of indicators defined by the 1 st game characteristics organized in a fixed order in accordance with the 1 st game characteristics comprising a fixed number of rows and a fixed number of columns of indicators of the predetermined pool of indicators; a 1 st set of game cards provided by the House for use in the 1 st game of chance, each game card in the 1 st set of game cards having at least a subset of the predetermined pool of indicators and each being adapted for receipt by players of the 1 st game of chance; the 1 st game characteristics of the rows and columns established for the 1 st game of chance used to create for the 2 nd game of chance a plurality of divisions of indicators, wherein each division of indicators consists of mutually exclusive sets of a first number of the predetermined pool of indicators from one of one or more entire columns, rows or diagonals of the predetermined pool of indicators; a second set of game pieces for use in the 2 nd game of chance adapted for receipt by a plurality of players; each game piece of the set of game pieces comprises: for each division of indicators, a plurality of unique subsets of indicators of the first number of the predetermined pool of indicators making up each division of indicators, each unique subset of indicators having a second number of the predetermined pool of indicators, each unique subset of indicators being one of a plurality of indicator combinations derived from the first number of the predetermined pool of indicators making up the associated division of indicators, wherein all combinations of the first number of the predetermined pool of indicators for all of the divisions of indicators is exhausted, wherein each game piece contains only one unique subset of indicators, wherein a total number of the plurality of unique subsets of indicators is equal to a number of game pieces in the second set of game pieces; and wherein the unique set of indicators on each game piece is adapted to be viewed by players in receipt of the game pieces; indicators being randomly selected, one at a time, from the predetermined pool of indicators for the 1 st game of chance during play of the 1 st game of chance until the randomly selected indicators coincide with a first unique set of indicators corresponding to any one of the second number of the predetermined pool of indicators that is contained within any of the unique subsets of indicators; and for the 2 nd game of chance a single winning game piece is determined from among the second set of game pieces, the single winning game piece being the one game piece comprising the first unique set of indicators.