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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2010
Clifton Lind, Austin, TX (US);
Gordon T. Graves, Austin, TX (US);
Gary L. Loebig, Austin, TX (US);
Jefferson C. Lind, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph R. Enzminger, Austin, TX (US);
Rodney L. Willyard, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Robert Lannert, Broken Arrow, OK (US);
Clifton Lind, Austin, TX (US);
Gordon T. Graves, Austin, TX (US);
Gary L. Loebig, Austin, TX (US);
Jefferson C. Lind, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph R. Enzminger, Austin, TX (US);
Rodney L. Willyard, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Robert Lannert, Broken Arrow, OK (US);
Multimedia Games, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A gaming system, apparatus, and method are disclosed which provide a player selectable option to manually interact by selecting game elements or initiate an automated mode whereby the gaming apparatus selects game elements in accordance with the rules of the game being played. An example disclosed embodiment includes a player being assigned a bingo card representation and a game designation set is associated with the bingo card representation, such that daubing the bingo card representation may be performed manually by the player at the player's respective player station using a suitable interface at the player station. Alternatively to manual daubing, the present invention includes automatically daubing one or more bingo card representations in response to an automatic daub input made by the player at the player station using a suitable input device.