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AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorsGary Penacho, Bradley John Hendricks, Lorin Santucci, Patrick Finch, Casey Lyle Condron, Joseph Masinter
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Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for electronic gaming are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method includes generating a plurality of reel strips, where each reel strip includes a column of symbol display positions, and where each symbol display position is adjacent to at least one other symbol display position. The method further includes selecting a first plurality of symbol display positions, displaying a symbol in each of the selected first plurality of symbol display positions, evaluating each of the selected first plurality of symbol display positions, merging, based upon the evaluating, at least two adjacent symbol display positions of the selected first plurality of symbol display positions, generating a game outcome based upon the merging, and generating a game award based upon the game outcome.
A method of electronic gaming implemented using a gaming system, the gaming system including a display configured to display a wagering game, a player input interface, a credit input mechanism including at least one of a card reader, a ticket reader, a bill acceptor, or a coin input mechanism, the credit input mechanism configured to establish a credit balance that is increasable and decreasable based on wagering activity, a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable memory, and a game controller communicatively coupled to the memory, the method comprising:
An electronic gaming system comprising:
An article of manufacture including a non-transitory, tangible, computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a game controller configured for electronic gaming, cause the game controller to at least:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.