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US 11,113,924 B2Granted
Gaming device having extending wild symbols
AssigneeIgt
InventorsAdrian Wotton, Anton Tjioe
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates broadly to a gaming device operable under control of a processor together with a method of operating a gaming device. The disclosure relates particularly, although not exclusively, to a gaming device and method where a wild symbol is in the course of a plurality of games extends along at least one of a plurality of symbol reels.
Claims13
A dedicated electronic gaming machine comprising:
- a housing;
- at least one display device supported by the housing;
- a plurality of input devices supported by the housing, said plurality of input devices including a payment acceptor;
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- responsive to a physical item being received via the payment acceptor, establish a credit balance based, at least in part, on a monetary value associated with the received physical item, wherein the physical item is selected from the group consisting of:
- a ticket associated with the monetary value and a unit of currency;
- cause the at least one display device to display a plurality of reels, each reel including a plurality of symbols at a plurality of reel stop positions, wherein distinct from the plurality of reel stop positions of the reels, each reel is associated with a plurality of initially displayed symbol display positions and each reel is associated with at least one initially non-displayed symbol display position,
- thereafter, for a play of a game, cause the at least one display device to display a first quantity of symbols by displaying, at the plurality of initially displayed symbol display positions associated with the reels, a plurality of the symbols at a plurality of the reel stop positions of the reels,
- for the play of the game, responsive to a wild symbol at one of the reel stop positions of one of the reels being displayed at one of the initially displayed symbol display positions associated with that reel and a wild symbol extension triggering event separately occurring:
- cause the at least one display device to display a second, greater quantity of symbols by displaying, for that displayed wild symbol, an extension of that displayed wild symbol to at least one of the initially non-displayed symbol display positions associated with that reel,
- determine any awards associated with the displayed symbols and any wild symbols displayed at any of the initially displayed symbol display positions associated with any of the reels, and
- cause the at least one display device to display any determined awards, wherein the credit balance is increasable based on any determined awards, and
- responsive to a cashout input being received, cause an initiation of any payout associated with the credit balance.
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A gaming system server comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
- communicate data which results in at least one display device of a mobile device displaying a plurality of reels, each reel including a plurality of symbols at a plurality of reel stop positions, wherein distinct from the plurality of reel stop positions of the reels, each reel is associated with a plurality of initially displayed symbol display positions and each reel is associated with at least one initially non-displayed symbol display position,
- thereafter, for a play of a game, communicate data which results in the at least one display device of the mobile device displaying a first quantity of symbols by displaying, at the plurality of initially displayed symbol display positions associated with the reels, a plurality of the symbols at a plurality of the reel stop positions of the reels, and
- for the play of the game, responsive to a wild symbol at one of the reel stop positions of one of the reels being displayed at one of the initially displayed symbol display positions associated with that reel and a wild symbol extension triggering event separately occurring:
- communicate data which results in the at least one display device of the mobile device displaying a second, greater quantity of symbols by displaying, for that displayed wild symbol, an extension of that displayed wild symbol to at least one of the initially non-displayed symbol display positions associated with that reel,
- determine any awards associated with the displayed symbols and any wild symbols displayed at any of the initially displayed symbol display positions associated with any of the reels, and
- communicate data which results in the at least one display device of the mobile device displaying any determined awards, wherein a credit balance is increasable based on any determined awards.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.