# US 2019/0172301 A1 · Gaming system and method providing a class ii bingo game with an interim video poker game > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0172301 A1 - Document ID: US20190172301A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/831,571 - Filed: 2017-12-05 - Published: 2019-06-06 - Earliest claimed: 2017-12-05 - Assignees: Igt - Applicants: Igt - Inventors: Bryan Wolf; Kevin Kuran - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190172301A1 ## CPC - G07F 17/329: {Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards} - G07F 17/3211: {Display means} - G07F 17/3244: {Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes} - G07F 17/3272: {Games involving multiple players} - G07F 17/3276: {wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament} - G07F 17/3293: {Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack} - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) ## Abstract The gaming system of the present disclosure provides a Class II bingo game with an interim video poker game. In various embodiments, the interim video poker game is a single-hand video poker game. In various embodiments, the interim video poker game is a multi-hand video poker game. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A gaming system comprising: a processor; and a memory device comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to at least: for a play of a bingo game, cause a display device to display a bingo card including a plurality of bingo spots, wherein each bingo spot is associated with (a) a different bingo number of a set of different bingo numbers, and (b) a different playing card of a set of different playing cards; for an initial bingo number draw including a subset of the set of different bingo numbers: map each of the bingo numbers of the initial bingo number draw to respective ones of the playing cards; populate a poker hand based on the playing cards mapped from the bingo numbers; cause the display device to display the poker hand including the mapped playing cards; for each playing card of the poker hand: in response to detecting a hold input for the playing card of the poker hand, causing the display device to mark a bingo spot of the bingo card corresponding to the playing card using a first daubing pattern; and in response to determining the playing card of the poker hand is a non-held card, causing the display device to mark a bingo spot of the bingo card corresponding to the non-held card using a second daubing pattern; conduct a plurality of additional bingo number draws from remaining numbers of the set of different bingo numbers, and, for each additional bingo number drawn: determine whether a number of bingo spots on the bingo card marked using the first daubing pattern satisfies an interim pattern threshold; and cause the display device to: when the number of bingo spots on the bingo card marked using the first daubing pattern does not satisfy the interim pattern threshold, (a) mark a bingo spot corresponding to the additional bingo number drawn using the first daubing pattern, and (b) replace a non-held playing card of the poker hand with a playing card corresponding to the marked bingo spot; and when the number of bingo spots marked using the first daubing pattern satisfies the interim pattern threshold, mark the bingo spot using a third daubing pattern, wherein the plurality of additional bingo numbers are drawn from the remaining numbers of the set of different bingo numbers until a bingo card of the play of the bingo game matches a game-winning pattern; and responsive to the game-winning pattern being detected: determine any first award based on the game-winning pattern; determine any second awards for each player of the play of the bingo game based on their respective poker hands; and cause the display device to display any first award and any second awards. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The gaming system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of bingo spots of the bingo card is a 4 by 13 array. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The gaming system of claim 2, wherein each row of the bingo card corresponds to a different card suit and each column of the bingo card corresponds to a different card value. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The gaming system of claim 1, wherein the set of different bingo numbers includes 52 different numbers. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The gaming system of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to determine when the bingo card matches the game-winning pattern by comparing bingo spots marked on the bingo card using the first daubing pattern and the third daubing pattern to the game-winning pattern. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The gaming system of claim 5, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to determine a game-winning award for the bingo card when the bingo card matches the game-winning pattern. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The gaming system of claim 6, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to determine whether the bingo card matches an interim bingo pattern by comparing the bingo spots on the bingo card that are marked using the first daubing pattern to the interim bingo pattern. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The gaming system of claim 7, wherein the interim bingo pattern is included in a set of interim bingo patterns. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The gaming system of claim 8, wherein each interim bingo pattern of the set of interim bingo patterns corresponds to a poker winning hand. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The gaming system of claim 7, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to determine an interim bingo pattern award for the bingo card when the bingo card matches the interim bingo pattern. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The gaming system of claim 10, wherein the bingo card that matches the game-winning pattern is a first bingo card, and the bingo card that matches the interim bingo pattern is a second bingo card different than the first bingo card. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The gaming system of claim 1, wherein the poker hand includes a quantity of playing cards that corresponds to a quantity of bingo numbers drawn in the initial bingo number draw. ### Claim 13 A method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising: for a play of a bingo game, causing, by a processor, a display device to display a bingo card including a plurality of bingo spots, wherein each bingo spot is associated with (a) a different bingo number of a set of different bingo numbers, and (b) a different playing card of a set of different playing cards; for an initial bingo number draw including a subset of the set of different bingo numbers: mapping, by the processor, each of the bingo numbers of the initial bingo number draw to respective ones of the playing cards; populating, by the processor, a poker hand based on the playing cards mapped from the bingo numbers; causing, by the processor, the display device to display the poker hand including the mapped playing cards; for each playing card of the poker hand: in response to detecting a hold input for the playing card of the poker hand, causing, by the processor, the display device to mark a bingo spot of the bingo card corresponding to the playing card using a first daubing pattern; and in response to determining the playing card of the poker hand is a non-held card, causing, by the processor, the display device to mark a bingo spot of the bingo card corresponding to the non-held card using a second daubing pattern; conducting, by the processor, a plurality of additional bingo number draws from remaining numbers of the set of different bingo numbers, and, for each additional bingo number drawn: determining, by the processor, whether a number of bingo spots on the bingo card marked using the first daubing pattern satisfies an interim pattern threshold; and causing, by the processor, the display device to: when the number of bingo spots on the bingo card marked using the first daubing pattern does not satisfy the interim pattern threshold, (a) mark a bingo spot on the bingo card corresponding to the additional bingo number drawn using the first daubing pattern, and (b) replace a non-held playing card of the poker hand with a playing card corresponding to the marked bingo spot; and when the number of bingo spots marked using the first daubing pattern satisfies the interim pattern threshold, mark the bingo spot on the bingo card using a third daubing pattern , wherein the plurality of additional bingo numbers are drawn from the remaining numbers of the set of different bingo numbers until a bingo card of the play of the bingo game matches a game-winning pattern; and responsive to the game-winning pattern being detected: determining, by the processor, any first award based on the game-winning pattern; determining, by the processor, any second awards for each player of the play of the bingo game based on their respective poker hands; and causing, by the processor, the display device to display any first award and any second awards. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of bingo spots of the bingo card is a 4 by 13 array, and each row of the bingo card corresponds to a different card suit and each column of the bingo card corresponds to a different card value. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, which includes: determining, by the processor, when the bingo card matches the game-winning pattern by comparing bingo spots marked on the bingo card using the first daubing pattern and the third daubing pattern to the game-winning pattern; and in response to determining that the bingo card matches the game-winning pattern, determining, by the processor, a game-winning award for the bingo card when the bingo card matches the game-winning pattern. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, which includes determining, by the processor, whether the bingo card matches an interim bingo pattern by comparing the bingo spots on the bingo card that are marked using the first daubing pattern to the interim bingo pattern. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method of claim 16, wherein the interim bingo pattern is included in a set of interim bingo patterns. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The method of claim 16, which includes determining, by the processor, an interim bingo pattern award for the bingo card when the bingo card matches the interim bingo pattern. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, wherein the bingo card that matches the game-winning pattern is a first bingo card, and the bingo card that matches the interim bingo pattern is a second bingo card different than the first bingo card. ### Claim 20 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the poker hand includes a quantity of poker cards that corresponds to a quantity of bingo numbers drawn in the initial bingo number draw. ### Claim 21 A gaming system comprising: a processor; and a memory device comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to at least: conduct an initial draw of a plurality of different bingo numbers of a set of different bingo numbers, wherein each bingo number of the set of different bingo numbers maps to a different bingo spot on a bingo card; responsive to the initial draw, cause a display device to display a poker hand of playing cards, wherein each of the playing cards of the poker hand maps, via the bingo card, to a respective drawn bingo number of the plurality of different bingo numbers; identify (a) a subset of held cards of the poker hand and (b) a subset of non-held cards of the poker hand; for each held card of the poker hand, cause the display device to mark a bingo spot on the bingo card corresponding to the held card via a first daubing pattern; and for each additional bingo number drawn from remaining bingo numbers of the set of different bingo numbers: determine whether a quantity of bingo spots on the bingo card marked using the first daubing pattern satisfies an interim pattern threshold; responsive to a determination that the quantity of bingo spots does not satisfy the interim pattern threshold, cause the display device to (i) mark, using the first daubing pattern, the bingo spot corresponding to the drawn bingo number, and (ii) replace a non-held card of the poker hand with a playing card corresponding to the drawn bingo number; and responsive to a determination that the quantity of bingo spots satisfies the interim pattern threshold, (i) cause the display device to mark the bingo spot corresponding to the drawn bingo number using a second daubing pattern, (ii) determine any interim award based on the poker hand, and (iii) cause the display device to display any interim award.