| CPC G07F 17/3288 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/34 (2013.01); G07F 17/3225 (2013.01); G07F 17/3258 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A historical horse racing (HHR) gaming system comprising:
a plurality of gameplay stations including at least a first gameplay station and a second gameplay station, and
a gaming server in communication connection with each of the plurality of gameplay stations,
wherein each of the plurality of gameplay stations is a dedicated historical horse racing (HHR) gaming machine that includes
a payment device,
a display system including a first display portion and a second display portion,
an input system including at least one input device,
a processor,
a memory storage,
a housing that houses the display system, the input system, the processor, and the memory storage of the HHR gaming machine,
wherein the memory storage of each of the gameplay stations has instructions stored thereon that, upon execution thereon by the processor, configure the gameplay station to perform the following to provide a HHR wagering game
receive payment for a wager through the payment device;
transfer the wager to one or more common better pool of a pari-mutuel wagering system;
wherein the gaming server is configured to
establish a time-limited seed used to initialize a selection of a first plurality of events;
distribute the time-limited seed at least to the first gameplay station and to the second gameplay station;
receive a first gameplay request from the first gameplay station and a second gameplay request from the second gameplay station, wherein gameplay requests from the plurality of gameplay stations are accepted for the first plurality of events for a limited time period;
identify the first plurality of events pending at the gaming server and attaching the first gameplay request and the second gameplay request to the first plurality of events, the events pending at the gaming server being activated or deactivated in a time-dependent manner based on the limited time period;
communicate event data about the first plurality of events to each of the first gameplay station and the second gameplay station;
wherein the HHR gaming system is configured, at the gaming server or the respective gameplay stations, to
retrieve historical race data from a historical horse race database, the retrieved historical race data relating to each of the first plurality of events from the historical horse race database;
create a first wager card and a second wager card, the first wager card comprising a predicted ranking from the first gameplay station of one or more participants for each of the first plurality of events and the second wager card comprising a predicted ranking from the second gameplay station of one or more participants for each of the first plurality of events;
create a first event card that includes an ordered ranking of one or more participants for each of the first plurality of events;
create a first binary scorecard by comparing the first wager card to the first event card, said first binary scorecard corresponding to a first award level of a plurality of award levels;
create a second binary scorecard by comparing the second wager card to the first event card, said second binary scorecard corresponding to a second award level of a plurality of award levels;
determine a first reward value based on the first award level corresponding to the first binary scorecard; and
determine a second reward value based on the one of the second award level corresponding to the second binary scorecard.
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