Patent ID: 8414386

Claim:
A gaming device comprising: a display device; an input device; a processor; and a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with said display device and said input device to: (a) determine a budget for a play of a game, (b) display a plurality of different selections, (c) cause one of the plurality of different selections to be picked, wherein at least one of said selections may be picked a plurality of times, (d) display to a player any award associated with said picked selection, (e) reduce the determined budget for the play of the game, said reduction occurring, at least in part, based on the picked selection and said reduction occurring prior to and independent of another one of said selections being picked, and (f) repeat (c) to (e) until the reduced budget for the play of the game has a predefined relationship to a designated budget.