Electronic Gaming System for Playing a Bingo-Type Game

An electronic gaming system for playing a bingo-type game, the system comprising:

• a plurality of electronic gaming machines including a display, a wager acceptor to receive value in the form of coin, bill or ticket and a controller coupled to the display and the wager acceptor;
• and
• a server in communication with the gaming machine, the server configured to:
• determine the electronic gaming machines participating in a session of a bingo-type game with a scaled prize and a progressive prize;
• collect a portion of a wager received at each of the electronic gaming machines to participate in the session, wherein a size of the wager received at each of the electronic gaming machines may vary among the plurality of electronic gaming machines;
• determine a set of virtual bingo cards for the bingo-type game with the progressive prize for each of the electronic gaming machines participating the session in accordance with the size of the wager received at each of the electronic gaming machines;
• issue virtual bingo cards to each of the electronic gaming machines including the set of virtual bingo cards;
• generate one or more sets of indicia;
• determine one or more win events based on one of the virtual bingo cards issued to each of the electronic gaming machines and the one or more sets of indicia;
• award one or more scaled prizes based on the one or more win events;
• determine a progressive win event based on the set of virtual bingo cards issued to each of the electronic gaming machines and the one or more sets of indicia;
• and
• award the progressive prize to the electronic gaming machine associated with the win event.