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US 11,232,682 B2Granted
Gaming device utilizing multiple symbol replacement
OwnerBradley Bermaninventor
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses, and methods for involve or otherwise facilitate a multiple symbol replacement process. Accordingly, a gaming device includes a display having a first game grid and a second game grid, and can be configured to replace at least two symbols in the second game grid, with each of the replaced symbols being in separate game reels that form columns in the second grid, when a predetermined symbol appears in the first game grid as part of a determined game outcome. Alternatively, the gaming device may be configured to replace symbols in the second game grid when a predetermined symbol appears in the first game grid, and replace symbols in the first game grid when a predetermined symbol appears in the second game grid.
Claims20
A gaming device comprising:
- a game display having a first game grid of symbol positions and a second game grid of symbol positions;
- a wager input device structured to receive physical currency or currency-based tickets, the currency or currency-based tickets establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable or decreasable based at least on wagering activity;
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- a processor configured to:
- receive a signal to initiate a game of chance in response to placement of a wager, the wager decreasing the credit balance;
- determine a first game outcome to display on the first game grid;
- determine a second game outcome to display on the second game grid;
- determine if a first predetermined symbol appears in the first game grid, and determine if a second predetermined symbol appears in the first game grid, as a result of the first game outcome;
- determine if the second predetermined symbol appears in the second game grid, and determine if the second predetermined symbol appears in the first game grid, as a result of the second game outcome;
- for the first game grid, copy any first predetermined symbols appearing in the first game grid to replace symbols in the second game grid, and maintain any second predetermined symbols appearing in the first game grid without copying the second predetermined symbols to the second game grid;
- for the second game grid, copy any second predetermined symbols appearing in the second game grid to replace symbols in the first game grid, and maintain any first predetermined symbols appearing in the second game grid without copying the first predetermined symbols to the first game grid;
- evaluate the first game grid and the second game grid for symbol combinations associated with awards;
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- provide any awards from the evaluation, where the provided awards increase the credit balance.
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A gaming device comprising:
- a game display having a first game grid of symbol positions and a second game grid of symbol positions;
- a wager input device structured to receive physical currency or currency-based tickets, the currency or currency-based tickets establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable or decreasable based at least on wagering activity;
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- a processor configured to:
- receive a signal to initiate a game of chance in response to placement of a wager, the wager decreasing the credit balance;
- determine a first game outcome to display on the first game grid;
- determine a second game outcome to display on the second game grid;
- determine if a first predetermined symbol appears in the first game grid, and determine if a second predetermined symbol appears in the first game grid, as a result of the first game outcome;
- determine if the second predetermined symbol appears in the second game grid, and determine if the second predetermined symbol appears in the first game grid, as a result of the second game outcome;
- for the first game grid, copy any first predetermined symbols appearing in the first game grid to replace symbols in the second game grid, and maintain any second predetermined symbols appearing in the first game grid without copying the second predetermined symbols to the second game grid;
- for the second game grid, copy any second predetermined symbols appearing in the second game grid to replace symbols in the first game grid, and maintain any first predetermined symbols appearing in the second game grid without copying the first predetermined symbols to the first game grid, wherein the second predetermined symbol replaces at least two symbols in two separate columns in the first grid;
- evaluate the first game grid and the second game grid for symbol combinations associated with awards;
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- provide any awards from the evaluation, where the provided awards increase the credit balance.
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A gaming device comprising:
- a game display having a first game grid of symbol positions and a second game grid of symbol positions;
- a wager input device structured to receive physical currency or currency-based tickets, the currency or currency-based tickets establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable or decreasable based at least on wagering activity;
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- a processor configured to:
- receive a signal to initiate a game of chance in response to placement of a wager, the wager decreasing the credit balance;
- display a randomly determined first game outcome on the first game grid;
- display a randomly determined second game outcome on the second game grid;
- when a first predetermined symbol appears on the first game grid as part of the determined first game outcome:
- randomly select a first symbol location in the second grid,
- copy the first predetermined symbol from the first game grid to the first selected symbol location in the second game grid to replace the symbol previously occupying the first selected symbol location in the second game grid, and
- when the first selected symbol location in the second game grid is occupied by a second predetermined symbol prior to being replaced by the copied first predetermined symbol from the first game grid, assign a multiplier value to the copied first predetermined symbol in the first selected symbol location in the second game grid;
- when a second predetermined symbol appears on the second game grid as part of the determined second game outcome:
- randomly select a second symbol location in the first grid,
- copy the second predetermined symbol from the second game grid to the second selected symbol location in the first game grid to replace the symbol previously occupying the second selected symbol location in the first game grid, and
- when the second selected symbol location in the first game grid is occupied by a first predetermined symbol prior to being replaced by the copied second predetermined symbol from the second game grid, assign a multiplier value to the copied second predetermined symbol in the second selected symbol location in the first game grid;
- evaluate the first game grid and the second game grid for symbol combinations associated with awards;
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- provide any awards from the evaluation, where the provided awards increase the credit balance.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.