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1. A method for providing a secondary wagering contest to a plurality of players involved in play of a primary fixed-odds wagering game, the results of which are based on random numbers, and in which a secondary contest result is based on a primary game result, wherein the secondary contest award comprises a prize pool, at least a portion of which is funded by wagers received from participants of the secondary contest, each participant playing at one or more eligible computing devices, each eligible computing device including an input device, a display device and a communication interface enabling communication within a network including other computing devices and one or more secondary contest controllers including a game module and a random number generator (RNG) module, the method comprising the steps of:
a) transmitting, by a secondary contest controller, a secondary contest notification to each eligible computing device relating to placing a wager in the secondary wagering contest and displaying, by the secondary contest controller, the secondary contest notification on the display device of each eligible computing device in the network prior to the actuation of an instance of the primary wagering game, wherein the secondary contest notification provides information relating to an opportunity to enter a wager in a secondary wagering contest through the communication interface; b) receiving data, by the secondary contest controller, relating to the entry of a secondary contest wager and identifying the user computing device or participant from which the data is received; c) facilitating, by the game module, play of the primary wagering game, generating and outputting, by the RNG module, random numbers to the game module for use in playing at least one of the primary game and the secondary wagering contest, and determining, by the game module, an outcome of the primary wagering game and an outcome of the secondary wagering contest; d) receiving outcome data from the secondary contest controller relating to a subsequent instance of the primary wagering game actuated at each eligible computing device of the identified eligible computing devices, wherein the outcome data includes a randomly generated result in the primary wagering game for each identified eligible computing device or participant; e) comparing, by the secondary contest controller, the randomly generated result for each identified eligible computing device or participant with a preset criteria for determining an outcome of the secondary wagering contest, wherein the outcome is one of a winning, partial winning or a non-winning outcome for one or more identified computing devices or participants; f) responsive to the satisfaction of the preset criteria for a winning or partial winning outcome, displaying, by the secondary contest controller, an award notification on the display device of the one or more identified eligible computing devices satisfying the preset criteria for the winning outcome of an awarding of at least a portion of the secondary contest wagers received; and g) responsive to the satisfaction of the preset criteria for a non-winning outcome, repeating steps d) through g) for the one or more identified eligible computing devices or participants satisfying the preset criteria for the non-winning outcome. |
