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US 2003/0203753 A1Published application
Gaming device having extender symbols
AssigneeIgt
InventorsDavid H. Muir, Gregg J. Palmer, Joseph E. Kaminkow
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Abstract
A gaming device including a plurality of reels or cards having several symbols. The symbols include at least one extender symbol. In one embodiment, when the extender symbol is randomly generated on the reels, one of the symbols randomly generated on the reels changes into another of the symbols randomly generated on the reels.
Claims21
A gaming device comprising:
- a plurality of reels;
- a processor which controls with the reels;
- a plurality of symbols on the reels;
- and
- at least one extender symbol included in said symbols, wherein when the processor activates the reels and the extender symbol is randomly generated on the reels, the processor causes at least one symbol which is randomly generated on the reels to change to another one of the symbols which is randomly generated on the reels and provides any award to the player for winning combinations of the symbols on the reels.
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A gaming device comprising:
- a display device;
- a plurality of cards adapted to be selected by the processor and displayed by the display device;
- a plurality of symbols on the cards said symbols including;
- at least one extender symbol;
- and
- a processor which randomly selects and causes the display device to display a plurality of the cards to the player, causes at least one symbol on the displayed cards to change to another symbol on the displayed cards when at least one extender symbol is displayed on the selected cards, and provides any award to the player for winning combinations that are on the displayed cards.
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A method of operating a gaming device, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) displaying a plurality of reels having a plurality of symbols including at least one extender symbol;
- (b) activating said reels to randomly generate a plurality of said symbols on the reels;
- (c) changing at least one symbol which is randomly generated on the reels to another symbol which is randomly generated on the reels when the extender symbol is randomly generated on the reels;
- and
- (d) providing any award to the player for winning combinations of symbols on the reels.
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A method of operating a gaming device, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) displaying a plurality of cards from a deck of cards, said deck of cards including at least one card with an extender symbol;
- (b) changing at least one symbol on the displayed cards to another symbol on the displayed cards when the extender symbol is displayed on the cards;
- and
- (c) providing any award to the player for winning combinations of symbols on the displayed cards.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.