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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
May. 01, 2020
Pilot Games, Inc., Saint Paul, MN (US);
Jon Weaver, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Warren R. White, Reno, NV (US);
Anthony M. Morelli, Mt. Pleasant, MI (US);
William D. Hermansen, Reno, NV (US);
PILOT GAMES, INC., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Abstract
A gaming system and method corresponding to a linked bingo tournament is described. The gaming system includes bingo gaming clients, a progressive prize, a tournament session, bingo game sessions, and a tournament prize. The tournament session includes predetermined bingo game sessions for each bingo gaming client. Each bingo game session for each bingo gaming client associates a random bingo outcome with a symbolic representation that is displayed on each bingo gaming client. The tournament prize is awarded to one or more bingo gaming clients displaying a highest point total upon completion of the tournament session. The progressive prize is awarded to each player at the completion of the game session when the random bingo outcome matches a progressive prize bingo pattern. The progressive prize is evenly split among two or more player when the two or more players achieve the progressive prize bingo pattern.