Patent ID: 8371924

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming system, said method comprising, for a play of a game: (a) causing at least one processor to execute a plurality of instructions stored in at least one memory device to operate with at least one display device to generate and display one or more bingo cards, each of the bingo cards including a plurality of different symbols of a symbol pool; (b) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to randomly select one of the symbols of the symbol pool; (c) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with the at least one display device to, for each of the bingo cards, for each of any of the symbols of said bingo card that match the selected symbol, display a match indication for said symbol of said bingo card; (d) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with the at least one display device to sequentially display the selected symbol in a separate selected symbol accumulation area; (e) repeating (b) to (d) until a designated quantity of the symbols has been selected from the symbol pool; (f) thereafter, causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to determine a first award based on any winning combination of match indications displayed on any of the bingo cards; (g) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to determine an additional second award based on any designated combination of symbols being displayed in at least one of a plurality of predetermined spatial arrangements in the separate selected symbol accumulation area; and (h) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to cause any determined first award and any determined additional second award to be provided for the play of the game.