Electronic bingo game with secondary wheel game

A gaming machine for allowing a player to play a game, including:

• a display device for displaying a primary game and a secondary game;
• and
• a controller coupled to the display device, the controller configured to:
• receive a wager from the player associated with the primary game and responsively display the primary game on the display device, the primary game including a bingo-type game having at least one bingo card including a plurality of bingo symbols being selected from a predefined set of game symbols;
• randomly select a plurality of drawn symbols from the predefined set of game symbols;
• determine if each one of the plurality of drawn symbols matches a corresponding one of the plurality of bingo symbols and determine an outcome of the bingo-type game as a function of the matched bingo symbols;
• detect a triggering condition occurring in the bingo-type game and responsively display the secondary game on the display device, the secondary game including a roulette-type game being displayed with a set of secondary symbols;
• randomly select at least one of the secondary symbols from the set of secondary symbols;
• and
• provide an award to the player as a function of the outcome of the bingo-type game and the selected secondary symbol.

A system, comprising:

• a plurality of gaming machines, each gaming machine being configured to receive a wager from the player associated with a primary game and responsively display the primary game to the player, the primary game including a bingo-type game having at least one bingo card including a plurality of bingo symbols being selected from a predefined set of game symbols;
• a central display device for displaying a secondary game;
• and
• a system controller coupled to the central display and each of the plurality of gaming machines, the system controller configured to:
• detect a triggering condition occurring in one of the bingo-type games being played at each corresponding gaming machines and responsively display the secondary game on the central display device, the secondary game including a roulette-type game being displayed with a set of secondary symbols;
• randomly select at least one of the secondary symbols from the set of secondary symbols;
• and
• provide an award to the player as a function of the outcome of the corresponding bingo-type game and the selected secondary symbol.