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US 8,075,402 B2Granted
Multigame selection
OwnerRobert Linley Muirinventor
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A gaming system (100) comprises a gaming server (system controller) (54), a plurality of gaming machines (10), and a communications system (63) connecting each of the plurality of gaming machines (10) to the gaming server (53). The gaming machines (10) each have a display (14), player controls (22), a player tracking device, such as a card reader (24.3) for reading player tracking cards (27), and a game processor (34) which displays sequential game images of a game being played on the respective display (14). Each game processor (34) plays a game initiated by the player, where the game is one of a plurality of games available on the gaming machine (10) and selectable by the player. Each gaming machine (10) includes game selection means (16) which displays a selection of games (211-216 & 311-316) available on the machine for the player to play. The games (211-216 & 311-316) offered for selection are ordered according to a ranking determined as a function of the player's past history of playing games and a history of games played by other players.
A gaming system comprising a gaming server, a plurality of gaming machines, and a communications system connecting each of the plurality of gaming machines to the gaming server, the gaming machines each having a display, a player interface, and a game controller arranged to control images displayed on the respective display, the gaming system operable to track play of a plurality of games played by a plurality of players on the gaming machines, the game controller being arranged to play a game initiated by a player at a said gaming machine, the game being one of a subset of the plurality of games, the subset of the plurality of games being available for play on the gaming machine and selectable by the player, the one of the subset of the plurality of game having a game result which, if it is a winning result, will cause the game controller to award a prize to the player, wherein each said gaming machine includes a game selector that is arranged to select the subset of the plurality of games and display the subset of the games on the display for the player to play, wherein the game selector is arranged to select the subset of the plurality of games based on the player's past history of playing any of the plurality of games and a history of any of the plurality of games played by other players.
A gaming machine connected to a gaming system wherein the gaming system comprises a gaming server, a plurality of said gaming machines, and a communications system connecting each of the plurality of gaming machines to the gaming server, the gaming machine having a display, a player interface, and a game controller arranged to control images displayed on the display, the game controller being arranged to play a game initiated by a player, the game being one of a plurality of games available on the gaming machine and selectable by the player and the game having a game result which, if it is a winning result, will cause the game controller to award a prize to the player, wherein the gaming machine further comprises a game selector that is arranged to select a subset of the plurality of games and display the subset of the plurality of games on the display for the player to play, wherein the game selector is arranged to select the subset of the plurality of games based on the player's past history of playing any of the plurality of games and a history of any of the plurality of games played by other players.
A gaming machine comprising a display, player interface, and game controller arranged to control images displayed on the display, the game controller being arranged to play a game initiated by the player, the game being one of a plurality of games available on the gaming machine and selectable by the player and the game having a game result which, if it is a winning result, will cause the game control means to award a prize to the player, the gaming machine being operable to track play of the plurality of games by a player of the gaming machine and further comprising a game selector that is arranged to select a subset of the plurality of games and display the subset of plurality of games on the display, wherein the game selector is arranged to select the subset of the plurality of games based on the player's past history of playing any of the plurality of games and a history of any of the plurality of games played by other players.
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