US 8,986,101 B2Granted

Gaming device having positional symbol awards

AssigneeIgt

InventorsAnthony Singer, Aaron Stuart Zoble

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a slot machine having awards for the occurrence of certain symbols in certain designated positions of the play matrix. In one embodiment, a game device comprises: a display device; an input device; and a processor for accessing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the display device and the input device to: provide a game comprising: a plurality of reels, each of the reels including a plurality of symbol positions, wherein at least one of the symbol positions comprises a capture position; a plurality of symbols at the plurality of symbol positions on the reels; at least one predetermined winning symbol combination of a plurality of winning symbol combinations; and an award associated with the predetermined winning symbol combination; wherein the winning symbol combination comprises a predetermined symbol from the plurality of symbols being positioned in the capture position.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A gaming device comprising:

a display device;
an input device;
and
a processor for accessing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the display device and the input device to, for a
play of a game:
(a) receive at least one wager on at least one payline;
(b) at each of a plurality of symbol positions of a plurality of reels, display a symbol selected from a plurality of symbols, wherein at least one of the symbol positions includes a capture symbol position and the plurality of symbols includes a predetermined symbol;
(c) if the predetermined symbol is not displayed at the capture symbol position, for each wagered on payline:
(i) determine any awards associated with any winning symbol combinations formed from the plurality of symbols displayed along said wagered on payline,
wherein said determination is based on a first paytable, and
(ii) display any determined awards associated with any formed winning symbol combinations;
and
(d) if the predetermined symbol is displayed at the capture symbol position, for each wagered on payline:
(i) determine any
awards associated with the any winning symbol combinations formed from the plurality of displayed symbols, wherein said determination is based on a second, different paytable, and
(ii) display any determined awards associated with any formed winning symbol combinations.

13 more elements

A gaming device comprising:

a display device;
an input device;
and
a processor for accessing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the processor cause the processor to operate with the display device and the input device to for a play of a game:
(a) receive a wager on a payline;,
(b) at each of a plurality of symbol positions of a plurality of reels display a symbol selected from a plurality of symbols, wherein at least one of the symbol positions includes a capture symbol position and the plurality of symbols includes a predetermined symbol;
(c) if the symbols displayed along said wagered on a payline form a predetermined winning symbol combination and the predetermined symbol is not displayed at the capture symbol position:
(i) determine a first award associated with the formed predetermined winning symbol combination, wherein said determination is based on a first paytable, and
(ii) display the determined first award associated with the predetermined winning symbol combination;
(d) if the symbols displayed along said wagered on a payline form the predetermined winning symbol combination and the predetermined symbol is displayed at the capture symbol position:
(i) determine a second different award associated with the formed predetermined winning symbol combination, wherein said determination is based on a second, different paytable, and
(ii) display the determined second award associated with the predetermined winning symbol combination.

9 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/572,585Filed 10 Aug 2012 · us provisional application
Priority: 10 Aug 2011
Published: US 2013/0184048 A118 Jul 2013
Granted: 24 Mar 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G07F 17/3213
Display means: details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
G07F 17/34
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines
G07F
Coin-freed or like apparatus