Gaming machine with interactive bonusing
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorNicholas Bennett
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Abstract
A gaming machine has a display and a game controller arranged to control images on the display. The game controller is arranged to play a game wherein one or more random events are caused to be displayed on the display and, if a predefined winning event of combination of events results, the machine awards a prize. A predetermined symbol from a set of symbols of the game is selected as a bonus symbol. The display is an interactive display means such that, when at least one of the bonus symbols appears then, by a player touching a part of the display overlying the, or each, occurrence of the bonus symbol, a bonus prize is revealed in respect of the, or each, bonus symbol.
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A gaming machine comprising:
- a gaming display;
- a game controller arranged to control one or more images displayed on the gaming display, the game controller being arranged to play a game having a base game and a feature game,
- wherein the base game has a base game bonus symbol and the feature game has a feature game bonus symbol, the feature game being triggered by a trigger condition in the base game, wherein the base game bonus symbol is selected from a set of one or more symbols of the base game and when the bonus symbol of the base game is displayed on the gaming display during the base game, the feature game is triggered, and
- wherein after the feature game is triggered, then, by a player touching a portion of the gaming display corresponding to the bonus symbol of the feature game, hidden bonus information is revealed at the portion of the gaming display corresponding to the bonus symbol of the feature game, wherein the bonus symbol of the base game is the same symbol as the bonus symbol of the feature game;
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- a selection interface configured to sense the touching of the portion of the gaming display and to transmit to the game controller a signal indicative of the touching of the portion of the gaming display.
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A gaming machine comprising:
- a gaming display means;
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- a game control means arranged to control one or more images displayed on the gaming display means, the game control means being arranged to play a game having a base game and a feature game,
- wherein the base game has a base game bonus symbol and the feature game has a feature game bonus symbol, the feature game being triggered by a trigger condition in the base game, and
- wherein the base game bonus symbol is selected from a set of one or more symbols of the base game and when the bonus symbol of the base game is displayed on the gaming display means during each of a series of one or more consecutive base games of the feature game, then, by a player touching a portion of the gaming display means corresponding to the bonus symbol of the feature game, bonus information is revealed at the portion of the gaming display means corresponding to the bonus symbol of the feature game, wherein the bonus symbol of the base game is the same symbol as the bonus symbol of the feature game.
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