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US 2011/0218031 A1Published application
Gaming machine with loyalty bonus
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorsNatalie Bryant, Scott Olive
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AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorsNatalie Bryant, Scott Olive
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A gaming machine is provided, which awards loyalty points to players playing the game who have identified themselves to the machine. The machine is arranged to award loyalty points to the player and to play two game means wherein, the first or base game may be provided by the slot machine game as a stand alone function with no dependence upon a supporting communications network, the second game may be linked game in which a plurality of network connected machines (50) participate with control of the game being provided by a central game controller (60), while the communications network (62) is controlled by a network controller (61). A first game mode is available to all players and a second enhanced game mode is made available to players who have reached a predetermined threshold of loyalty points.
A method of gaming comprising accumulating loyalty points in a loyalty points system for a player for each play of a game on a gaming console on which a bet is made, the accumulation being by a loyalty point increment amount which is derived by a controller from the amount bet but which is not directly proportional to the amount bet.
A method of gaming comprising accumulating loyalty points for a player for each play of a game on a gaming console on which a bet is made by allocating a fixed point value for a non-winning game and allocating an amount of points based on a size of a win for winning game.
A loyalty points system comprising:
A loyalty points system comprising:
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