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US 2007/0167211 A1Published application
Gaming device having a bonus award wheel with a terminator
AssigneeIgt
InventorsPaulina Rodgers, Anthony Baerlocher
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Abstract
A gaming device including an award wheel having multiple sections including a plurality of award symbols and at least one terminator symbol, a section indicator, a spin initiator and a processor connected to the award wheel and the spin initiator. The player, or the gaming device, spins the award wheel using a spin initiator. The gaming device provides an award to the player, if the section indicator indicates that the player obtained an award. The player continues to spin the award wheel until the section indicator indicates that the player obtained a terminator, which ends the bonus game and the player receives the total accumulated award.
Claims44
A gaming device operable under control of at least one processor, said gaming device comprising:
- a bonus game initiated upon an occurrence of a triggering event, the bonus game including:
- a wheel having a plurality of sections, each section having a probability of being indicated, said wheel having a plurality of award symbols associated with the sections and a terminator symbol associated with one of the sections,
- a plurality of awards associated with the award symbols, and
- a section indicator;
- said at least one processor programmed to:
- (i) indicate one of the sections of the wheel by moving at least one of the wheel and the section indicator, wherein the section associated with the terminator symbol can be indicated for said movement, said movement based on the probabilities associated with the sections,
- (ii) for each indicated section associated with one of the award symbols, provide the award associated with said award symbol to a player,
- (iii) repeat (i) to (ii) in a single play of the bonus game until the indicated section is the section associated with the terminator symbol, wherein said terminator symbol does not eliminate any of the awards provided to the player before the indicated section is the section associated with the terminator symbol, and
- (iv) change the probability associated with at least one of the sections after a predetermined number of said movements.
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A method for operating a gaming device, the method comprising:
- (a) providing a bonus game upon an occurrence of a triggering event, the bonus game including:
- a wheel having a plurality of sections, each section having a probability of being indicated, said wheel having a plurality of award symbols associated with the sections and a terminator symbol associated with one of the sections,
- a plurality of awards associated with the award symbols, and
- a section indicator;
- (b) indicating one of the sections of the wheel by moving at least one of the wheel and the section indicator, wherein the section associated with the terminator symbol can be indicated for said movement, said movement based on the probabilities associated with the sections;
- (c) for each indicated section associated with one of the award symbols, providing the award associated with said award symbol to a player;
- (d) repeating (b) to (c) in a single play of the bonus game until the indicated section is the section associated with the terminator symbol, wherein said terminator symbol does not eliminate any of the awards provided to the player before the indicated section is the section associated with the terminator symbol;
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- (e) changing the probability associated with at least one of the sections after a predetermined number of said movements.
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A gaming device operable under control of at least one processor, said gaming device comprising:
- a bonus game initiated upon an occurrence of a triggering event, the bonus game including:
- a wheel having a plurality of sections, each section having a probability of being indicated, said wheel having a plurality of award symbols associated with the sections,
- a plurality of awards associated with the award symbols, and
- a section indicator;
- said at least one processor programmed to:
- (i) indicate one of the sections of the wheel by moving at least one of the wheel and the section indicator, said movement based on the probabilities associated with the sections,
- (ii) for each indicated section associated with one of the award symbols, providing the award associated with said award symbol to a player,
- (iii) repeat (i) to (ii) in a single play of the bonus game until a terminating condition occurs,
- (iv) maintain the probability associated with at least one of the sections constant for a designated number of said sequential movements, and
- (v) change the probability associated with at least one of the sections for at least one movement that occurs after the designated number of said sequential movements.
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A method for operating a gaming device, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a bonus game upon an occurrence of a triggering event, the bonus game including:
- a wheel having a plurality of sections, each section having a probability of being indicated, said wheel having a plurality of award symbols associated with the sections,
- a plurality of awards associated with the award symbols, and
- a section indicator;
- (b) indicating one of the sections of the wheel by moving at least one of the wheel and the section indicator, said movement based on the probabilities;
- (c) for each indicated section associated with one of the award symbols, providing the award associated with said award symbol to a player;
- (d) repeating (b) to (c) in a single play of the bonus game until a terminating condition occurs,
- (e) maintaining the probability associated with at least one of the sections constant for a designated number of said sequential movements, and
- (f) changing the probability associated with at least one of the sections for at least one movement that occurs after the designated number of said sequential movements.
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