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An electronic gaming system for playing games. The electronic gaming system includes a system base station and a plurality of electronic gaming boards. The system base station downloads game instructions, a game schedule, and game card arrays into the gaming boards. These game card arrays are stored

An electronic gaming system for playing games. The electronic gaming system includes a system base station and a plurality of electronic gaming boards. The system base station downloads game instructions, a game schedule, and game card arrays into the gaming boards. These game card arrays are stored in the system base station as a gaming card library. The game schedule stores symbols which are to be matched with randomly generated symbols, particularly where the symbols are numbers and the pattern is a plurality of elements of a 5×5 array. The system base station retains auditing information about the distributed gaming cards; thus, the base station instantly confirms matches between the randomly-called numbers and those on a winning card, and at the same time verifies that such a card was indeed sold. The system base station receives information and performs supervisory functions such as distributing the game cards, storing the distributed game cards in memory, validating potentially winning cards, calculating card cost, calculating prize money for each session, and processing and reporting cumulative audit records stemming from the entire gaming session. The system base station has a number of modes by which an operator performs various functions for a gaming session as either the manager of the gaming session, the cashier of the gaming session, or the accountant of the gaming session. The accounting function produces a comprehensive audit record, including a profit/loss statement and a final cash-on-hand balance, for the entire gaming session.

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A method for managing money during the playing of a bingo game, including the steps of: (a) electronically storing in a system base station the total number of bingo cards sold during the course of a gaming session comprised of a scheduled sequence of one or more successive, independent bingo games;

A method for managing money during the playing of a bingo game, including the steps of: (a) electronically storing in a system base station the total number of bingo cards sold during the course of a gaming session comprised of a scheduled sequence of one or more successive, independent bingo games; (b) electronically storing in a system base station the amount of all winning bingo card payouts made during said gaming session; (c) electronically storing in a system base station a validation code which uniquely identifies each specific said gaming session; (d) downloading said validation code and data representing at least one bingo card into at least one handset; (e) electronically storing said validation code and said bingo card in memory means of said handset; and (f) confirming a win condition of said handset by comparing said validation code electronically stored in said system base station with said validation code electronically stored in said handset, and producing a win indication if said validation codes are identical.