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US 2017/0323527 A1Published application
Gaming methods, systems, and devices for implementing dice game having re-roll feature
AssigneeKing Show Games, Inc.
InventorBradley BERMAN
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for implementing a dice game having a re-roll feature on a gaming device. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to roll multiple virtual dice on a game display and determine if the result of the dice roll satisfies a predefined criterion. When the result of the initial dice roll satisfies the predefined criterion, one or more of the multiple virtual dice is re-rolled. The gaming device then evaluates a game result after the re-roll, where the combination of the displayed faces from any initially rolled dice that were not re-rolled and the displayed faces from the re-rolled dice are used in the evaluation.
Claims20
A gaming device comprising:
- a game display for displaying game events;
- a wager input device structured to receive physical items associated with a currency value;
- a memory configured to store a credit value;
- a player interface device for receiving inputs related to the game events;
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- a processor operable to:
- receive a signal indicating that a physical item associated with a currency value has been received by the wager input device;
- increase the credit amount stored in the memory based on the currency value of the received physical item;
- provide a first game element having a plurality of positions;
- provide a second game element having a plurality of positions;
- select symbols from a plurality of eligible symbols to map to the positions of the first game element and the positions of the second game element;
- randomize the first game element and the second game element to display at least one position of the first game element and display at least one position of the second game element to form a first event outcome;
- evaluate the one or more symbols associated with the displayed positions of the first game element and the second game element in the first event outcome;
- re-randomize the second game element to display at least one position of the second game element to form, along with the at least one position of the first game element from the first event outcome, a second event outcome when the first event outcome satisfies a predefined condition;
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- evaluate the one or more symbols respectively associated with the displayed positions of the first game element and the second game element in the second event outcome to determine awards.
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A method of operating a gaming device having a game display, a wager input device structured to receive physical items associated with a currency value, a memory configured to store a credit amount, a game processor, and a player input device, the method comprising:
- receiving a signal indicating that a physical item associated with a currency value has been received by the wager input device;
- increasing the credit amount stored in the memory based on the currency value of the received physical item;
- receiving a signal to initiate a first game event on the gaming device;
- providing a plurality of multi-positional game elements;
- selecting a number of cards in a deck of cards for use in the first game event, the number of selected cards corresponding to a total number of positions in the plurality of multi-positional game elements;
- assigning each selected card to one of the positions of the multi-positional game elements so that each position of each multi-positional game element is associated with a card;
- randomizing the multi-positional game elements to display a position of each of the multi-positional game elements on the game display;
- evaluating an initial poker hand created by the displayed cards on the displayed positions of the multi-positional game elements, where the initial poker hand is evaluated by comparing the displayed cards to a poker paytable;
- determining if the initial poker hand satisfies a re-roll criterion, where the re-roll criterion is satisfied when the displayed cards on a first portion of the multi-positional game elements correspond to an award in the poker paytable;
- when the re-roll criterion is satisfied:
- determining a side wager amount to activate a re-roll feature,
- presenting an option to re-roll a second portion of the multi-positional game elements in exchange for the determined side wager amount, where the second portion of the multi-positional game elements are the remaining multi-positional game elements in the plurality multi-positional game elements that are not in the first portion of multi-positional game elements,
- randomizing the second portion of multi-positional game elements to display one side of each of the second portion of multi-positional game elements on the game display when a signal is received indicating acceptance of the option to re-roll the second portion of multi-positional game elements in exchange for the side wager amount, and
- evaluating a secondary poker hand created by the displayed cards on the displayed positions of the first portion of multi-positional game elements and the displayed cards on the displayed positions of the second portion of multi-positional game elements after randomizing the second portion of multi-positional game elements in response to receiving a signal indicating acceptance of the option to re-roll the second portion of multi-positional game elements, where the secondary poker hand is evaluated by comparing the displayed cards to the poker paytable;
- and provide awards associated with the first game event.
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A gaming device comprising:
- a game display for displaying game events;
- a wager input device structured to receive physical items associated with a currency value;
- a memory configured to store a credit value;
- a player interface device for receiving inputs related to the game events;
- and
- a processor operable to:
- receive a signal indicating that a physical item associated with a currency value has been received by the wager input device;
- increase the credit amount stored in the memory based on the currency value of the received physical item;
- provide a plurality of multi-positional game elements;
- select symbols from a plurality of eligible symbols, where the number of symbols selected corresponds to a total number of positions in the plurality of multi-positional game elements;
- assign the selected symbols respectively to positions on each of the multi-positional game elements;
- randomize the multi-positional game elements to display at least one position of each of the multi-positional game elements, each displayed position associated with a symbol;
- evaluate a combination of symbols created by the displayed symbols on the displayed positions of the multi-positional game elements;
- determine whether the combination of symbols satisfies a predefined criterion;
- re-randomize a second portion of the multi-positional game elements when the predefined criterion is satisfied to generate a final symbol combination, where the second portion of the multi-positional game elements are the remaining multi-positional game elements not in the first portion of the multi-positional game elements;
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- provide awards associated with the final symbol combination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.