Patent ID: 7291067

Claim:
A method of playing a multi-player game having a jackpot feature comprising: initiating a game play period; presenting individual games to a plurality of individual players; determining a score for each individual game based upon an outcome of each individual game; determining if said score meets a required criteria; ending said multi-player game for each individual game where the individual game score does not meet said required criteria; closing said game play period; and permitting individual players who received an individual game score which met said required criteria during said game play period to participate in a jackpot portion of said multi-player game comprising: providing a jackpot amount; determining a pool of one or more individual players from said individual players entitled to participate in said jackpot portion of said game, based upon the individual game scores of said individual players; and awarding said one or more individual players of said pool at least a portion of said jackpot amount.