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US 11,688,245 B2Granted
System and method of providing a hold and spin game with player selected volatility
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies, Inc.
InventorsHua Xu, John Marcus Milliner, III
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Abstract
A gaming machine provides a spinning reel game having a base game, from which a hold and spin game is triggered when a determined quantity of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. When the feature game is triggered, volatility options are presented to the player. After receiving a volatility selection that specifies a first control factor for a hold and spin game, the gaming machine conducts the hold and spin game per the specified first control factor while using at least another control factor to maintain a same return-to-player across the volatility options.
Claims20
A gaming machine, comprising:
- a player interface;
- a credit input mechanism;
- a payout mechanism;
- a display system comprising one or more display devices;
- and
- a control system comprising one or more processors, the control system executing instructions which cause the control system to:
- establish a credit balance in response to the credit input mechanism receiving a physical item representing a credit value;
- fund a wager amount from the established credit balance in response to initiating play of a base game based on input received via the player interface;
- dispense a payout of the credit balance via the payout mechanism;
- present symbols of a base game outcome at display positions of the display system;
- present volatility options via the display system in response to the base game outcome triggering a feature game;
- receive, via the player interface, a volatility selection that selects a volatility option from the volatility options, wherein each volatility option corresponds to a plurality of control factors including an initial quantity of spins for the feature game;
- and
- for each spin of the initial quantity of spins specified by the selected volatility option:
- hold configurable symbols in a feature game outcome presented at display positions of the display system;
- provide the feature game outcome with replacement symbols that replace symbols at display positions of the display system that do not present a configurable symbol;
- select a table based on a second control factor of the plurality of control factors, the table storing a plurality of multiplier values;
- and
- for each replacement symbol that is a configurable symbol:
- select a multiplier value from the selected table and assign the selected multiplier value to the respective configurable symbol;
- and
- present an award for the respective configurable symbol based on a sum of values presented by the configurable symbols multiplied by the multiplier value assigned to the respective configurable symbol.
19 more elements
A method of a gaming machine, the method comprising:
- establishing a credit balance in response to a credit input mechanism of the gaming machine receiving a physical item representing a credit value;
- funding a wager amount from the established credit balance in response to initiating play of a base game based on input received via a player interface of the gaming machine;
- dispensing a payout of the credit balance via a payout mechanism of the gaming machine;
- presenting symbols of a base game outcome at display positions of a display system of the gaming machine;
- presenting volatility options via the display system in response to the base game outcome triggering a feature game;
- receiving, via the player interface, a volatility selection that selects a volatility option from the volatility options, wherein each volatility option corresponds to a plurality of control factors including an initial quantity of spins for the feature game;
- and
- for each spin of the initial quantity of spins specified by the selected volatility option:
- holding, with a control system of the gaming machine, configurable symbols in a feature game outcome presented at display positions of the display system;
- providing, with the control system, the feature game outcome with replacement symbols that replace symbols at display positions of the display system that do not present a configurable symbol;
- select, with the control system, a table based on a second control factor of the plurality of control factors, the table storing a plurality of multiplier values;
- and
- for each replacement symbol that is a configurable symbol:
- selecting, with the control system, a multiplier value from the selected table;
- assigning, with the control system, the selected multiplier value to the respective configurable symbol;
- and
- presenting, via the display system, an award for the respective configurable symbol based on a sum of values presented by the configurable symbols multiplied by the multiplier value assigned to the respective configurable symbol.
14 more elements
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that in response to being executed cause a gaming machine to:
- establish a credit balance in response to a credit input mechanism of the gaming machine receiving a physical item representing a credit value;
- fund a wager amount from the established credit balance in response to initiating play of a base game based on input received via a player interface of the gaming machine;
- dispense a payout of the credit balance via a payout mechanism of the gaming machine;
- present symbols of a base game outcome at display positions of a display system of the gaming machine;
- present volatility options via the display system in response to the base game outcome triggering a feature game;
- receive, via the player interface, a volatility selection that selects a volatility option from the volatility options, wherein each volatility option corresponds to a plurality of control factors including an initial quantity of spins for the feature game;
- and
- for each spin of the initial quantity of spins specified by the selected volatility option:
- hold configurable symbols in a feature game outcome presented at display positions of the display system;
- provide the feature game outcome with replacement symbols that replace symbols at display positions of the display system that do not present a configurable symbol;
- select a table based on a second control factor of the plurality of control factors, the table storing a plurality of multiplier values;
- and
- for each replacement symbol that is a configurable symbol:
- select a multiplier value from the selected table;
- assign the selected multiplier value to the respective configurable symbol;
- and
- present an award for the respective configurable symbol based on a sum of values presented by the configurable symbols multiplied by the multiplier value assigned to the respective configurable symbol.
14 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.