Gaming device having player selectable winning combinations
AssigneeBally Manufacturing Corporation
InventorsHilario Vazquez, Jr., Paul R. Yarnold
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Abstract
A gaming device of the type that utilizes multiple rotatable reels or a video display to display a random combination of predetermined symbols, and which issues a win indication or a payout whenever one of several predetermined winning combinations of symbols is obtained. Certain ones of the predetermined winning combinations of symbols are defined by the machine and others are player selectable.
Claims10
In a gaming device of the type having means for generating a random combination of symbols, means defining a plurality of winning combinations of symbols and means resonsive to said random combination generating means and to said winning combination defining means for providing an indication of a win whenever the generated random combination corresponds to one of said winning combinations, the improvement comprising:
- player operated means for generating a player selected winning combination;
- means responsive to said player selected combination for providing an indication of a win whenever the generated random combination corresponds to said player selected winning combination;
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- wherein said random combination generating means includes a plurality of rotatable reels, each reel having disposed thereon a plurality of first symbols corresponding to symbols defining said winning combination and second symbols corresponding to symbols defining said player selected said winning combinations and said second symbols being different from said first symbols.
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