The invention, in its various aspects and embodiments, comprises a method and apparatus for an optical filament launch. The game involves drawing a sequence of numbers and playing a conventional bingo-like game until a desired quantity of numbers to be drawn remains, and matching the remaining numbers to indicia in a manner that only yields a win upon the game’s ending if the most recently drawn quantity of numbers all match numbered spaces bearing the indicia. The memory means is coupled to a processor means of the electronic card.