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US 8,784,176 B2Granted
Electronic gaming device with contagious wild symbols
AssigneeCadillac Jack
InventorTimothy Ryan
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may provide gaming options relating to contagious wilds, non-contagious wilds, dormant wilds, contagious dormant wilds, and/or blockers.
Claims20
An electronic gaming device comprising:
- a plurality of reels, the plurality of reels including one or more areas;
- a memory;
- a processor configured to generate one or more symbols to be located in the one or more areas, the one or more symbols include a first directional contagious wild symbol and a first dormant wild symbol, the processor configured to determine one of a plurality of different predetermined directional movement path patterns to expand the first directional contagious wild symbol, the processor configured to determine a first interaction determination that determines a selected predetermined directional movement path pattern from the plurality of predetermined directional movement path patterns, the processor configured to modify the first dormant wild symbol into at least one of a contagious wild symbol and a wild symbol based on the selected predetermined directional movement path pattern and the processor configured to expand the first directional contagious wild symbol based on the selected predetermined directional movement path pattern into the first dormant wild symbol.
A method of providing gaming options via an electronic gaming device comprising:
- displaying a first directional contagious wild symbol;
- displaying a first dormant wild symbol;
- determining a predetermined directional movement path pattern from a plurality of different predetermined directional movement path patterns to expand the first directional contagious wild symbol;
- determining via one or more processors a first interaction determination that determines a selected predetermined directional movement path pattern from the plurality of predetermined directional movement path patterns;
- expanding the first directional contagious wild symbol based on the selected predetermined directional movement path pattern into the first dormant wild symbol;
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- modifying via the one or more processors the first dormant wild symbol into at least one of a contagious wild symbol and a wild symbol based on the selected predetermined directional movement path pattern.
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An electronic gaming system comprising:
- a server including a server memory and a server processor, the server processor configured to display a plurality of reels which include one or more symbols, the one or more symbols include a first directional contagious wild symbol and a first dormant wild symbol;
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- the server processor configured to determine one of a plurality of different predetermined directional movement path patterns to expand the first directional contagious wild symbol, the server processor configured to determine a first interaction determination that determines a selected predetermined directional movement path pattern from the plurality of predetermined directional movement path patterns, the server processor configured to modify the first dormant wild symbol into at least one of a contagious wild symbol and a wild symbol based on the selected predetermined directional movement path pattern and the server processor configured to expand the first directional contagious wild symbol based on the selected predetermined directional movement path pattern into the first dormant wild symbol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.