Method of replicating a symbol in a game matrix
AssigneePtt, LLC
InventorsAnthony M. Singer, Joseph D. Masci, T. Grant Bolling, Daniel Mordecai Marks
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Abstract
The present invention replicates a symbol into one or more other symbol positions of the symbol matrix in accordance with the replication properties of the location in which said symbol appears in the symbol matrix. A preferred embodiment of the present invention (“Replicating Wilds”) uses a symbol matrix formed by three rows and five columns in which the middle position of the third column possesses replication properties for the wildcard symbol such that a wildcard symbol replicates itself into all adjacent symbol positions.
Claims3
A method of playing a game using a symbol matrix formed by at least one row intersecting with a plurality of columns, with the rows and columns including a plurality of symbols, comprising:
- a. randomly rearranging the plurality of symbols;
- b. displaying the rearranged symbols;
- c. replicating a symbol in accordance with the replication properties of a symbol position in which it appears;
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- d. issuing awards based upon winning combinations of symbols formed in the symbol matrix.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.