Games awarding prizes displayed in winning symbol positions
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorLipi Gupta
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Abstract
A gaming system selects a plurality of base symbols for display. When a winning symbol combination exists in the base symbols selected, and the winning symbol combination includes a defined base symbol, the gaming system selects a bonus symbol for display that is disposed over the defined base symbol.
Claims20
A gaming system comprising:
- a display device that includes a plurality of display positions;
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, a plurality of bonus reels, each of the plurality of bonus reels including a set of bonus symbols, and a plurality of base reels, each of the plurality of base reels including a set of base symbols that includes a defined base symbol;
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- a processor executing the instructions stored on the memory device, which cause the processor to at least:
- spin the plurality of base reels to display a plurality of base symbols from the set of base symbols at the plurality of display positions;
- spin the plurality of bonus reels to display one of a plurality of bonus symbols from the set of bonus symbols at at least one of the plurality of display positions displaying one of the plurality of base symbols;
- determine whether the plurality of display positions displaying the plurality of base symbols and the plurality of bonus symbols displayed define a winning symbol combination;
- determine whether the winning symbol combination includes the defined base symbol, in response to determining that the plurality of base symbols and the bonus symbols displayed define the winning symbol combination;
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- allocate a prize when the winning symbol combination exists and includes the defined base symbol, the prize dependent on the winning symbol combination and the one of the plurality of bonus symbols displayed with the defined base symbol.
A method of playing a game for use with a gaming machine having a display device that includes a plurality of display positions, a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, a plurality of bonus reels, each of the plurality of bonus reels including a set of bonus symbols, and a plurality of base reels, each of the plurality of base reels including a set of base symbols that includes a defined base symbol, and a processor executing the instructions stored on the memory device, the method comprising:
- spinning the plurality of base reels to display, via the processor, a plurality of base symbols from the set of base symbols at the plurality of display positions;
- spinning the plurality of bonus reels to display, via the processor, one of a plurality of bonus symbols from the set of bonus symbols at at least one of the plurality of display positions displaying one of the plurality of base symbols;
- determining, via the processor, the plurality of display positions displaying the plurality of base symbols and the plurality of bonus symbols displayed define a winning symbol combination;
- in response to determining that the plurality of base symbols and the bonus symbols displayed define the winning symbol combination, determining, via the processor, whether the winning symbol combination includes the defined base symbol;
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- allocating, via the processor, a prize when the winning symbol combination exists and includes the defined base symbol, the prize dependent on the winning symbol combination and the one of the plurality of bonus symbols displayed with the defined base symbol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.