Abstract: An electronic gaming system includes a plurality of electronic gaming machines including a display, a wager acceptor to receive value, and a controller, and a server in communication with the gaming machines. The server is configured to determine the machines participating in a session of a bingo-type game with a progressive prize; collect a portion of a wager received at each of the machines, wherein the size of the wager may vary; determine a number of virtual bingo cards for each of the machines in accordance with the size of the wager received; issue the virtual bingo cards to each of the machines in accordance with the determination; generate one or more sets of indicia; determine a progressive win event based on the virtual bingo cards and the one or more sets of indicia; and award the progressive prize to the machine associated with the win event.

Abstract: An electronic gaming system includes a plurality of electronic gaming machines including a display, a wager acceptor to receive value, and a controller, and a server in communication with the gaming machines. The server is configured to determine the machines participating in a session of a bingo-type game with a progressive prize; collect a portion of a wager received at each of the machines, wherein the size of the wager may vary; determine a number of virtual bingo cards for each of the machines in accordance with the size of the wager received; issue the virtual bingo cards to each of the machines in accordance with the determination; generate one or more sets of indicia; determine a progressive win event based on the virtual bingo cards and the one or more sets of indicia; and award the progressive prize to the machine associated with the win event.

Abstract: Virtual electronic bingo play comprising a computer readable medium having computer readable game play instructions for playing electronic bingo and having game play results; a display in electronic communications with the computer readable medium; a set of symbol information stored in the computer readable medium representing symbols displayed on the display; and a set of computer readable display instructions embodied in the computer readable medium for displaying a virtual symbol path on the display, receiving the game play results from the computer readable game play instructions, selecting symbol information from the set of symbol information according to the game play results, determining a location for placement of each symbol represented in the selected symbol information on the virtual symbol path according to the game play results and displaying the selected symbols at the determined locations along the virtual path so that the game play results are displayed to the player.