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US 6,616,142 B2Granted
Game with reservable wild indicia
AssigneeAnchor Gaming
InventorWilliam R. Adams
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Abstract
Games of skill or chance which provide a player, who has received a wild indicia during one game, with the opportunity to reserve that wild indicia for use in a subsequent game.
Claims41
A gaming method, comprising:
- providing a first set of playing indicia to define a first game, the first set of playing indicia being randomly selected from a collection of playing indicia;
- providing at least one traveling wild indicia for use in other than the first game, the at least one traveling wild indicia not selected from the collection of playing indicia;
- determining a first game outcome associated with the first set of playing indicia;
- determining a first payout associated with the first game outcome;
- providing a second set of playing indicia to define a second game, the second set of playing indicia being randomly selected from the collection of playing indicia;
- determining a second game outcome associated with the second set of playing indicia and the at least one traveling wild indicia and
- determining a second payout associated with the second game outcome.
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A gaming method, comprising:
- randomly selecting a first group of indicia from a plurality of indicia in a first game, the plurality of indicia including a plurality of playing indicia and a wild indicia, wherein the wild indicia is not one of the plurality of playing indicia;
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- providing a player with the option of reserving the wild indicia in the first game for use in a subsequent game.
A gaming method comprising:
- randomly selecting a first group of indicia from a plurality of playing indicia in a first game;
- providing a wild indicia in the first game, the wild indicia not being selected from the plurality of playing indicia;
- randomly selecting a second group of indicia from the plurality of playing indicia in a second game;
- providing a player with the option of reserving the wild indicia in the first game for use in the second game;
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- determining a value payout based on one of a combination of the first group of indicia and the wild indicia and a combination of the second group of indicia and the wild indicia, the value payout being different than if the value payout were determined without the combination of the wild indicia with the first group of indicia or the second group of indicia.
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