Networked multiple bingo game system
View Patent ↗A system and method for providing more than one simultaneous and different bingo game, using single bingo ball draws from a central location. The present invention further provides for players to be highly distributed, for example throughout the US, while still using the single centralized ball draw and still supporting different bingo games in parallel.
1. A method of providing a plurality of simultaneous bingo games for players to play, the method comprising:
having a central bingo server;
selecting a bingo game available on a first player terminal;
selecting a bingo game available on a second player terminal, where said first player terminal is operably connected to a first bingo game controller over a first private network and said second player terminal is operably connected to a second bingo game controller over a second private network, and where said first and second bingo game controllers are in operable communication with said central bingo server through at least one central bingo game controller using a third network;
drawing a set of bingo balls where said set of bingo balls is a sequence long enough to encompass bingo games selected on said first player terminal and said second player terminal;
distributing said set of bingo balls from said central bingo server to said at least one central bingo game controller;
identifying which balls from said set of drawn balls are needed for said bingo game selected at said first player terminal and said game selected at said second player terminal by said at least one central bingo game controller;
sending said identified balls from said at least one central bingo game controller to bingo game controllers operably connected to it; and,
allowing players to play bingo games using said identified balls.
2. The method of claim 1 where said central bingo game server and at least one of said central bingo game controllers are implemented in the same physical device.