Patent Document ID: 20140066152
Application ID: 13956987
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of operating a computer-based solitaire game playable by a player for a player's fee, the method comprising the steps of: generating an electronic representation of a randomly-ordered card deck for playing a game; generating an electronic representation of a play field based upon the randomly-ordered card deck; receiving player inputs at a user interface for advancing the game; accepting the player inputs according to a predetermined set of game play rules, updating the play field according to the player inputs, the predetermined game play rules and the card deck; and upon detecting an end of game indication according to the predetermined game play rules, performing the additional steps of determining an actual number of cards transferred to foundation stacks as of the end of game indication; and providing a payout to the player that is calculated as a function of a per-card payout award and the actual number of cards transferred during the game, wherein the per-card payout award is determined as a function of an expected number of transferred cards and the player's fee, wherein the expected number of transferred cards is determined as a function of a discrete probability density function including probability values for each possible number of cards transferred, the discrete probability density function being calculated from game outcomes produced in a multi-game computer-based simulation, and wherein the number of games simulated in the multi-game simulation is selected to provide a statistically stable result.