Reset of prize amounts to semi-random values

A non-transitory computer-readable storage storing instructions for one or more digital data processors, the stored instructions being applicable for suppressing recognition by users of one or more gaming machines that a prize amount reset event has taken place for one or more of the gaming machines, the stored instructions causing:

• at least one of the processors to detect that a chance-based awarding of a displayed prize amount has taken place for one or more of the gaming machines and a corresponding meter needs to be reset;
• at least one of the processors to deterministically determine an initial reset amount for the corresponding meter in response to the detecting of the chance-based awarding;
• at least one of the processors to alter the initial reset amount to one whose to-be-displayed digits sequence is at least one of being less easily recognizable by the users than the initial reset amount as constituting a reset amount and having a less attention attracting pattern of its to-be-displayed digits sequence than that of the initial reset amount whereby users viewing a display that presents the digits sequence of the altered reset amount will not as easily recognize from the viewed display of the altered reset amount as compared to that of the initial reset amount that a reset event has occurred;
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• at least one of the processors to supply the altered reset amount to a display controller, thereby enabling a displaying on one or more corresponding prize amount displaying displays of the digits sequence of the altered reset amount by the display controller.

A machine system having gaming machines and having an ability to suppress recognition by users of one or more of the gaming machines that a prize amount reset event has taken place for one or more of the gaming machines, the system comprising:

• first means for detecting by use of one or more processors that a chance-based awarding of a displayed prize amount has taken place for one or more of the gaming machines and a corresponding meter needs to be reset;
• second means for deterministically determining by use of one or more processors an initial reset amount for the corresponding meter in response to the detecting of the chance-based awarding;
• third means for altering by use of one or more processors the initial reset amount to one whose to-be-displayed digits sequence is at least one of being less easily recognizable by the users than the initial reset amount as constituting a reset amount and having a less attention attracting pattern of its to-be-displayed digits sequence than that of the initial reset amount whereby users viewing a display that presents the digits sequence of the altered reset amount will not as easily recognize from the viewed display of the altered reset amount as compared to that of the initial reset amount that a reset event has occurred;
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• fourth means for enabling by use of one or more processors a displaying on a display of the digits sequence representing the altered reset amount.