US 2014/0370965 A1Published application

Gaming device having one or more shared award-modifier reels

AssigneeBally Gaming, Inc.

InventorsDavid B. Schultz, Nathaniel A. Hammond, Dominic Tiberio, Micheal Shackelford

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Abstract

A video gaming device having a plurality of indicia-bearing spinning reels in a first set of reels and a second set of reels is disclosed. A determination is made as to whether the display of the indicia of the plurality of spinning reels in the first and second sets of reels are winning outcomes. Award-multiplier indicia of a first shared spinning base game award-multiplier reel is positioned between the first and second set of reels. The base game award-multiplier indicia modifies the winning outcome on the first set of reels, modifies the winning outcome on the second set of reels, includes a secondary game trigger symbol, forms a contiguous set of reels having a common axis of rotation with the first and second set of reels, or combinations thereof.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A gaming device, comprising:

a controller;
a video display operatively coupled to the controller to display a depiction of:
a first plurality of indicia-bearing spinning reels organized as a first set of reels;
a second plurality of indicia-bearing spinning reels organized as a second set of reels;
a first shared base game award-multiplier reel bearing indicia and positioned adjacent to at least one of the first and second set of reels;
spinning of the first set of reels, the second set of reels and the first shared base game award multiplier reel to display a subset of their indicia;
wherein the displayed indicia of the shared base game award-multiplier reel signify at least one of:
modification of an award corresponding to a winning combination of displayed indicia on the first set of reels,
modification of an award corresponding to a winning combination of displayed indicia on the second set of reels, and
triggering display of a secondary game, and
wherein the first set of reels, the second set of reels and the first shared base game award-multiplier reel form a contiguous set of reels having a common axis of rotation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/476,462Filed 3 Sep 2014
Priority: 1 Oct 2004
Published: 18 Dec 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G07F 17/3213
Display means: details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
G07F 17/3244
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
G07F 17/3267
Game play aspects of gaming systems: game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher…
G07F 17/34
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

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