Gaming system and method in which base game play affects feature game outcome
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorBretton Maddux
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Abstract
A gaming system having a base game and a feature game. The feature game includes a rotatable circular poker wheel having a plurality of display areas. Each of the display areas of the wheel are populated with playing cards during the play of the base game. A special symbol in the base game outcome allows population and revision of the cards on the poker wheel. Upon a trigger condition occurring, the wheel is rotated and stopped at a position to select a card from which a poker hand of five playing cards is formed.
Claims29
A gaming system comprising:
- a credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item representing a monetary value for establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable based at least on wagering activity;
- a memory having a symbol set comprising a plurality of special symbols each associated with a particular playing card;
- a display having a rotatable wheel display, said wheel display having a plurality of card display positions, each of said card display positions configured for displaying a playing card;
- a game controller configured to:
- randomly select a number of symbols from said symbol set;
- determine whether a special symbol was selected;
- cause, in response to a special symbol being determined to be selected, the playing card associated there with to be displayed in one of said card display positions of the wheel display;
- rotate said wheel to randomly select at least one said playing card displayed in said card display positions of said wheel;
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- determine an award based on the selected said at least one playing card.
A gaming system according to claim 4, wherein said award allocator is configured to determine the award based on said poker hand.
A method of play using a gaming machine having a credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item representing a monetary value to establish a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable based at least on wagering activity, a credit meter configured to monitor the credit balance, a memory storing a plurality of symbols including special symbols each associated with a particular playing card, a display having a base game display area comprised of a plurality of display positions, said display having a secondary game display area comprised of a rotatable wheel, said wheel having a plurality of card display positions, each of said card display positions configured for displaying a playing card, and a game controller, said method comprising:
- playing a base game in said base game display area including playing a plurality of instances of base game play, each playing of an instance comprising:
- (1) randomly selecting a number of symbols from said memory via said game controller;
- (2) displaying the selected symbols in said plurality of display positions of said base game display area, via said game controller, including forming a base game outcome;
- (3) determining an award based on the base game outcome via said game controller;
- playing a secondary game comprising:
- (1) determining in each instance of base game play, via said game controller, whether a special symbol occurs in the selected symbols in the base game outcome;
- (2) in response to said determining that a special symbol has occurred in said base game outcome, causing the particular playing card associated with said special symbol determined to be in the base game outcome to be displayed in one of said card display positions of said wheel display;
- after play of said plurality of instances of base game play, randomly selecting at least one said playing cards displayed in said card display positions of said wheel, via said game controller, forming a playing card hand;
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- determining an award based on the formed playing card hand.
A gaming machine comprising:
- a credit input mechanism configured to receive a physical item representing a monetary value for establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable base at least on wagering activity;
- a memory storing a symbol set comprising a plurality of symbols including special symbols each associated with a particular playing card;
- a display having a base game display area having a plurality of base game display positions arrange for display of a base game and having a wheel display, said wheel display having a plurality of card display positions, each of said card display positions configured for displaying a playing card symbol;
- a base game controller configured to randomly select a number of symbols from said symbol set for display on said base game display;
- a feature controller configured to:
- (i) determine whether a special symbol was selected for display on said base game display;
- (ii) cause a playing card to be displayed in one of said card display positions in response to a special symbol being determined to have been selected for display on said base game display;
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- (iii) randomly select at least one said playing card displayed in said card display positions on said wheel;
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- an award controller configured to determine an award based on the said at least one playing card symbol selected by said feature controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.