Keno games with bonus ball draws and bonus multipliers
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorJohn Victor Ludwick
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Abstract
An electronic gaming machine, system, and method are disclosed for conducting a keno game. The keno game may be conducted alone or in conjunction with a bingo game. The electronic gaming machine may receive a wager from a player, and conduct the bingo game and/or keno game in response to the wager. Based on the wager, a quantity of numbered keno balls may be designated as feature numbered keno balls. The electronic gaming machine may conduct the keno game using the feature numbered keno balls, and display a bonus if and/or when one or more feature numbered keno balls match one or more player selected keno numbers.
Claims20
A gaming machine, comprising:
- one or more input devices;
- one or more display devices;
- and
- a gaming controller executing instructions stored in a memory, wherein execution of the instructions causes the gaming controller to at least:
- receive, via the one or more input devices, one or more player selections that define a player-chosen quantity of feature objects and a set of player-chosen numbers;
- designate a quantity of numbered objects in a set of numbered objects as the player-chosen quantity of feature objects;
- select a first subset of numbered objects from the set of numbered objects, the selected first subset of numbered objects including zero or more numbered objects designated as feature objects;
- present the selected first subset of numbered objects via the one or more display devices;
- determine an award that is dependent upon a hit count and a feature hit count, wherein the hit count represents a first quantity of player-chosen numbers in the set of player-chosen numbers that match at least one numbered object in the selected first subset of numbered objects, and wherein the feature hit count represents a second quantity of player-chosen numbers in the set of player-chosen numbers that match at least one feature object in the selected first subset of numbered objects;
- and
- display, via the one or more display devices, the award.
A method of a gaming machine, the method comprising:
- receiving, via one or more input devices of the gaming machine, one or more player selections that define a player-chosen quantity of feature objects and a set of player-chosen numbers;
- designating, with a gaming controller of the gaming machine, a quantity of numbered objects in a set of numbered object as the player-chosen quantity of feature objects;
- selecting, with the gaming controller, a pay table based at least upon a quantity of player-chosen numbers in the set of player-chosen numbers;
- selecting, with the gaming controller, a first subset of numbered objects from the set of numbered objects such that the selected first subset of numbered objects includes from zero feature objects up to the player-chosen quantity of feature objects from the set of numbered objects;
- presenting the selected first subset of numbered objects via one or more display devices;
- and
- presenting, via the one or more display devices, an award that is dependent upon a hit count, a feature hit count, and the selected pay table, wherein the hit count represents a first quantity of player-chosen numbers in the set of player-chosen numbers that match at least one numbered object in the selected first subset of numbered objects, and wherein the feature hit count represents a second quantity of player-chosen numbers in the set of player-chosen numbers that match at least one feature object in the selected first subset of numbered objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.