Multiple card bingo game playing device

Claim 1

A game device for playing more than one bingo card at a time, comprising container means, computer means mounted in said container means, visual display means mounted on said container means and operably connected to said computer means, a plurality of manually actuated numerical input keys to input into the computer means representations of a plurality of numbers appearing on a 5×5 matrix of each bingo card to be played, means in said computer means to assign each of said numbers its relative spatial location in its 5×5 matrix based upon the relative time sequence of input of said numbers and to cause said display means to display said plurality of numbers in the same spatial orientation which they occupied on the card from which they were input, means to selectively input into said computer means a plurality of spatially oriented bingo patterns by pressing those portions of the display means which spatially define each pattern, means to select at least one of the input patterns for the game to be played, means in said computer means to determine which of said plurality of numbers for each card are within a selected pattern for the game to be played, means to input a series of random numbers, one at a time, and to compare for each card each random number with those of said plurality of numbers which are within a pattern of the game selected to be played to at least determine and identify on which cards a bingo exists for a pattern selected for the game to be played.