Shared promotional/monetary bingo system
AssigneeRoxor Gaming Limited
InventorsChethana Harve, Priya Jadwani, Veronika Vashkevich
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Abstract
Systems for providing a free-to-play Class II gaming experience that address technical issues such as potential delay of the start of a free-to-play Class II gaming experience and/or free-to-play Class II gaming experience that is differentiated between different player value levels despite the technical difficulty of all of the players in a free-to-play Class II gaming session playing with the same number selection sets and selection order.
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A system comprising:
- a plurality of processors and memory devices, wherein:
- one or more of the processors are located in a server and at least some of the processors are located in devices remote from the server, and
- the memory devices store computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the processors, cause the processors, in aggregate, to:
- cause each device to present, via a display of that device, a corresponding user interface that includes a player-accessible representation of one or more bingo cards associated with that device for a first game session,
- determine, for each of the devices, whether that device is a first type of device participating in the first game session in a for-money context or a second type of device participating in the first game session in a free-to-play context,
- cause numbers to be selected from a first set of numbers for the first game session and by the server for the first game session,
- cause each of the devices to be provided with information indicating each of the numbers selected from the first set of numbers by the server, and
- receive one or more bingo claim indications for the first game session sent from one or more of the devices, wherein each bingo claim indication
- indicates that the device from which that bingo claim indication was received made a claim that one or more of the numbers selected by the server for the first game session match a corresponding number or numbers in one or more locations on one of the one or more bingo cards associated with the device from which that bingo claim indication was received that form a pattern that matches an eligible bingo pattern of one or more eligible bingo patterns associated with the device from which that bingo claim indication was received.
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One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- cause each device of a plurality of devices to present, via a display of that device, a corresponding user interface that includes a player-accessible representation of one or more bingo cards associated with that device for a first game session,
- determine, for each of the devices, whether that device is a first type of device participating in the first game session in a for-money context or a second type of device participating in the first game session in a free-to-play context,
- cause numbers to be selected from a first set of numbers for the first game session and by a server for the first game session,
- cause each of the devices to be provided with information indicating each of the numbers selected from the first set of numbers by the server, and
- receive one or more bingo claim indications for the first game session sent from one or more of the devices, wherein each bingo claim indication indicates that the device from which that bingo claim indication was received made a claim that one or more of the numbers selected by the server for the first game session match a corresponding number or numbers in one or more locations on one of the one or more bingo cards associated with the device from which that bingo claim indication was received that form a pattern that matches an eligible bingo pattern of one or more eligible bingo patterns associated with the device from which that bingo claim indication was received.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.