Method of playing a game of chance with a universal bingo card at the game site or locations remote from the game site
OwnerSimon Goldfarbinventor
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Abstract
Persons can participate in a game of chance, such as BINGO, played at the game site or remotely away from the site where the winning numbers are drawn. Each player can mark his predicted winning number combination on a specially designed game sheet. The game sheet preferably has twenty four spaces arranged in vertical columns and horizontal rows, as in a conventional BINGO card. Each space has fifteen numerals printed therein, such that the game player can select a particular number by marking over one (and only one) of the numerals in each space. The invention gives the player a wider choice of numbers when playing the game of BINGO, either at the game site or remotely from some other location.
Claims9
A method of participation in the playing of a game of chance prediction of a winning number combination, wherein said method comprises:
- (a) each game player manually completing a game sheet, wherein each game sheet comprises multiple numbered spaces arranged in five vertical columns that collectively form five horizontal rows of numbered spaces;
- each said space having all of the numbers therein that the player can selectively mark to indicate the player's choice of a winning number for that space, within the game rules;
- each marked game sheet being machine-readable when the game sheet is completed;
- the game sheet completing step comprising each game player selectively marking only one of the numbers in each said space;
- (b) each game player transmitting the respective marked game sheet to a game site operator who runs the game of chance;
- (c) the game site operator passing each marked game sheet through an electronic reader that is associated with a computer having a memory, whereby the marked numbers on each respective game sheet are put into the computer memory;
- (d) the game site operator transmitting back to each game player a copy of the player's marked game sheet so that each game player has visible proof of the marked numbers on the respective game sheet, and
- (e) the game site operator operating a number selection machine that selects a winning number combination on a random chance basis;
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- (f) the game site operator entering the winning number combination into the computer, whereby the computer compares the winning numbers with the numbers put into the computer memory in step (d).
A method of participation in the playing of a game of chance prediction of a winning number combination, wherein said method comprises:
- (a) each game player manually completing a game sheet, wherein each game sheet comprises multiple numbered spaces arranged in vertical columns that collectively form horizontal rows of numbered spaces;
- each said numbered space having all of the numbers therein that the game player can selectively mark to indicate the player's choice of a winning number for that space;
- each marked game sheet being machine-readable when the game sheet is completed;
- the game sheet completing step comprising each game player selectively marking only one of the numbers in each said space;
- (b) each game player transmitting the respective marked game sheet to a game site operator who runs the game of chance;
- (c) the game site operator passing each marked game sheet through an electronic reader that is associated with a computer having a memory, whereby the marked numbers on each respective game sheet are put into the computer memory;
- (d) the game site operator transmitting back to each game player a copy of the player's marked game sheet so that each game player has visible proof of the marked numbers on the respective game sheet;
- (e) the game site operator operating a number selection machine that selects a winning number combination on a random chance basis;
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- (f) the game site operator entering the winning number combination into the computer, whereby the computer compares the winning numbers with the numbers put into the computer memory in step (d).
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