Gaming system and a method of gaming
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorColin Fong
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Abstract
A gaming method and system, the method comprising providing one or more reels in a spinning reel game, the reels being displayed as three dimensional and displayed as provided with game symbols along and around the reels, displaying spinning of the reels and thereby sequentially displaying at least some of the game symbols displayed as provided along the reels, displaying rotating of the reels and thereby sequentially displaying at least some of the game symbols displayed as provided around the reels, stopping the spinning and the rotating of each of the reels at a respective stop position, and determining a game outcome based on at least some of the game symbols displayed when each of the reels is in its respective stop position.
Claims20
A gaming machine comprising:
- a toroidal shaped reel including a plurality of reel positions, the toroidal shaped reel comprising a plurality of vertically-sequenced symbols located along the toroidal shaped reel and a plurality of horizontally-sequenced symbols located around a surface of the toroidal shaped reel at each reel position of the plurality of reel positions, and operable to rotate in a first direction of rotation along the surface of the toroidal shaped reel and to rotate all of the vertically-sequenced symbols vertically, and in a second direction of rotation along the surface of the toroidal shaped reel and relatively orthogonal to the first direction of rotation;
- a display through which two or more symbols are displayed at each of the plurality of reel positions;
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- a game controller comprising a processor and memory storing a sequence of instructions, which, when executed, cause the processor to control the display to display a portion of the toroidal shaped reel, rotate vertically, along the toroidal shaped reel, all of the plurality of vertically-sequenced symbols, rotate horizontally, around the surface of the toroidal shaped reel, all of the plurality of horizontally-sequenced symbols at each of the plurality of reel positions.
A method of operating in a gaming machine having a toroidal shaped reel including a plurality of reel positions, the toroidal shaped reel comprising a plurality of vertically-sequenced symbols located along the toroidal shaped reel and a plurality of horizontally-sequenced symbols located around a surface of the toroidal shaped reel at each reel position of the plurality of reel positions, and operable to rotate in a first direction of rotation along the surface of the toroidal shaped reel and to rotate all of the vertically-sequenced symbols vertically, and in a second direction of rotation along the surface of the toroidal shaped reel and relatively orthogonal to the first direction of rotation, a display through which two or more symbols are displayed at each of the plurality of reel positions, and a game controller comprising a processor and memory storing a sequence of instructions, which, when executed, cause the processor to initiate a game, the method comprising:
- selecting, for each of the plurality of reel positions, by the game controller, two or more symbols of the toroidal shaped reel for display;
- selectively rotating vertically, by the game controller, along the toroidal shaped reel, all of the plurality of vertically-sequenced symbols in the first direction of rotation and all of the plurality of horizontally-sequenced symbols in the second direction of rotation to display the toroidal shaped reel as spinning;
- displaying, at each of the plurality of reel positions on the display by the game controller, the two or more symbols selected as a game outcome when the toroidal shaped reel stops rotating;
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- evaluating, by the game controller, the game outcome for a win.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions, for conducting a game on a gaming machine having a toroidal shaped reel including a plurality of reel positions, the toroidal shaped reel comprising a plurality of vertically-sequenced symbols located along the toroidal shaped reel and a plurality of horizontally-sequenced symbols located around a surface of the toroidal shaped reel at each reel position of the plurality of reel positions, and operable to rotate in a first direction of rotation along the surface of the toroidal shaped reel and to rotate all of the vertically-sequenced symbols vertically, and in a second direction of rotation along the surface of the toroidal shaped reel and relatively orthogonal to the first direction of rotation, a display having a plurality of display positions through two or more symbols are displayed at each of the plurality of reel positions, and a game controller, the one or more sequences of instructions, which, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform the steps of:
- selecting, for each of the plurality of display positions, two or more symbols representing the toroidal shaped reel for display;
- selectively rotating vertically, by the game controller, along the toroidal shaped reel, all of the plurality of vertically-sequenced symbols in the first direction of rotation and all of the plurality of horizontally-sequenced symbols in the second direction of rotation to display the toroidal shaped reel as spinning;
- displaying, at each of the plurality of display positions on the display by the game controller, the two or more symbols selected as a game outcome when the toroidal shaped reel stops rotating;
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- displaying the game outcome.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.