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A system and method for remote players to select the numbers on a bingo card and to have this card played in a local Do-It-Yourself bingo game. Remote players wishing to play use a telephone to select the numbers on a game card that is entered into a remotely located bingo game. This entry process a

A system and method for remote players to select the numbers on a bingo card and to have this card played in a local Do-It-Yourself bingo game. Remote players wishing to play use a telephone to select the numbers on a game card that is entered into a remotely located bingo game. This entry process also acquires the players identification information. Billing is provided by a ‘900’number billing service or by charging a player\s credit card account. A computer system plays the randomly selected balls against all the entered game cards, and determines the winners. No game cards are manufactured or distributed as the players create their own cards. Local and remote players are assured that the game is legitimately played as all the remote players cards are printed out at the game site and stored in lock boxes similarly to the local players\cards as proof of the bingo numbers selected and payment made for game entry.

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A system for both local and remote players to play in a game wherein a remote player selects game numbers for entry and play in the same game that local players select numbers and play, comprising: (A) a managing computer system for controlling peripheral systems and operating programs that accept a

A system for both local and remote players to play in a game wherein a remote player selects game numbers for entry and play in the same game that local players select numbers and play, comprising: (A) a managing computer system for controlling peripheral systems and operating programs that accept and store game numbers selected by remote players, and play these game numbers against local randomly drawn numbers to determine if any of the remote players are winners; (B) a communications system for providing to the computer system game information received via a communications connection which pertains to at least an identification of a remote player and the player-selected game numbers; (C) a first database for storing information relating to the remote player-selected game information and the associated player identification that was received via the communications connection; (D) means for printing game cards with the selected game numbers of the remote players and the associated player identification as physical proof of entry into the game; (E) means to store duplicate cards of the local players\entries and the cards containing the selected bingo game numbers of the remote players\entries; (F) means to randomly select game numbers; (G) means to inform the players of the selected game numbers and game information; (H) means to enter these random game numbers into the computer system; (I) means to determine when the game numbers as they are drawn match all the remote player-selected game numbers stored in the first database to produce remote winner(s) of the game; and (J) means to determine and inform all of the players of the identification of the winning players.