Slot machine hybrid pin and ball game
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorsNicholas Luke Bennett, David Villa, Christopher Stevens
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Abstract
An electronic gaming console is illustrated having a console cabinet 10 including a prize display 12, a coin entry slot 13, a payout tray 14 and internally mounted game control processor circuits. A video game is provided for play on the console in which images of spinning reels spin and objects (balls) are dropped through a series of obstacles (pins) and eventually land in one or more of a set of containers. Prizes are paid according to either the state of the reels after spinning or the number of balls which are in each container at the end of the ball drop and/or the manner in which the pins are hit.
Claims16
An electronic gaming console for playing a hybrid game having one or more rotatable reels of a spinning reel game, a labyrinth of pins and holes of a pin and ball game, and a wheel of a wheel game, and wherein the wheel having a plurality of segments, each of the segments indicates a prize to be awarded, the electronic gaming console comprising:
- a credit input configured to receive a wager for playing the game;
- a video display configured to display the hybrid game and a number of buckets based on the received wager;
- a player input control configured to receive an input to initiate 1) a spinning of the one or more rotatable reels, 2) projecting of a ball into the pin and ball game, and 3) rotating of an indicator about the wheel on the video display, wherein video display displays an outcome of the spinning reel game;
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- a game controller configured to award a prize indicated by the indicator when the indicator rotating about the wheel comes to a stop, and when a predetermined combination of the outcome is displayed and if the ball lands in a predetermined bucket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.