Patent ID: 6840855

Claim:
Method for conducting a game for one or more players, comprising (A) providing plural sets of contest elements for such game in which the contest elements comprise balls of unique coloring having selected repetitive playing indicia thereon; (B) providing a game controller to distribute contest elements to each player in the game; (C) establishing a table of values for winning combinations of contest elements, such table of values including at least one winning combination in which the combination consists of all elements of a single preselected color and a single preselected indicia; (D) distributing, by means of such controller, a selected number of contest elements to each player, with each player receiving the same number of contest elements; (E) enabling each player to evaluate the combination of such received contest elements based on such table of values to elect whether or not to reject one or more contest elements; (F) permitting each player to selectively reject, for return to such controller, from zero to all contest elements obtained in Step (D); (G) distributing additional contest elements, by such controller, to each player corresponding to the number of contest elements, if any, rejected in Step (F); and (H) evaluating the combination of contest elements held by each player against such table of values.