Systems, methods, and apparatus for bingo games having a visible ball queue

摘要

Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for a bingo game including a representation of a ball queue. In one example, a display for a bingo game represents a queue of one or more upcoming ball calls for the bingo game. In some embodiments, a ball queue may include partial information about an upcoming ball call (e.g., an indication of a corresponding bingo card column but not a bingo number).

主权项

1. An apparatus for providing online games to a plurality of remote user devices, comprising:
a processor of a game application delivery controller, wherein the game application delivery controller is in communication with a game server cluster; a computer-readable memory in communication with the processor of the game application delivery controller, the computer-readable memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor of the game application delivery controller direct the processor to:
enable a player to participate in a bingo game using a user device;receive, from the user device, a request for an online gaming interface for a bingo game;transmit a call to a bingo game server of the game server cluster for the online gaming interface for the bingo game;determine a sequence of bingo symbols for the bingo game;generate the online gaming interface, wherein the generated online gaming interface comprises a representation of an electronic bingo card, a visible ball queue, and a button configured to allow the player to indicate completion of a predetermined winning bingo pattern;generate, in the visible ball queue of the online gaming interface, a representation of at least one bingo symbol of the determined sequence of bingo symbols that is not yet playable in the bingo game;enable, in the online gaming interface, a represented first bingo symbol of the determined sequence in the visible ball queue for play in the bingo game;remove the represented first bingo symbol enabled for play in the bingo game from the visible ball queue in the online gaming interface; andreceive, from the online gaming interface, a signal that the player actuated the button to indicate completion of a predetermined winning bingo pattern.