Patent ID: 7794319

Claim:
A method of providing a bingo game in a bingo gaming system comprising at least one bingo game manager and one or more player terminals, the method comprising the steps of: defining a non-bingo game of chance having a set of non-bingo winning outcomes and associated non-bingo prizes; under control of the at least one bingo game manager, creating a bingo game prize pool comprising elements generated according to the probabilities of the set of non-bingo winning outcomes, each element including a bingo game winning outcome and a bingo prize equal to its generating non-bingo prize and randomly selecting a set of elements from the prize pool for use in a bingo game; presenting the bingo game on the one or more player terminals until at least one of the selected elements' bingo game winning outcome occurs; and displaying a non-bingo winning outcome associated with a non-bingo prize equal to the bingo prize associated with the occurring bingo winning outcome on the one or more player terminals.