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US 9,005,007 B2Granted
Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorMichael Allan Shai-Hee
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Abstract
A method of gaming including: selecting in each game round a plurality of symbols for display to a player in a set of display positions arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, subsets of the display positions corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reels, each reel comprising a plurality symbols; controlling the correspondence of display positions to reels so that at least one game round is a diagonal spin game round in which at least one of the reels is arranged to spin diagonally such that it corresponds to display positions in a plurality of neighboring columns; and determining an outcome for each game round based on the selected symbol.
Claims26
A computer-implemented method of gaming comprising:
- determining, using a processor based on a random trigger event, occurrence of a diagonal spin game round, the diagonal spin game round to involve at least a subset of a plurality of available reels, each reel including a plurality of symbols, each symbol arranged at a display position on the reel, and each reel eligible to participate in a vertical spin game;
- configuring, using the processor, reels participating in the diagonal spin game round such that at least one display position on each participating reel is to spin diagonally with respect to a display position on another participating reel;
- facilitating, using the processor, spinning of at least the reels participating in the diagonal spin game round;
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- determining, using the processor, an outcome for the diagonal spin game round based on selected symbols,
- wherein configuring reels in the diagonal spin game round comprises shifting a top display position of at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in one direction and a bottom display position of the at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in the other direction to provide an effect of a diagonal spin.
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A gaming system comprising:
- a display to display symbols in a set of display positions arranged in a plurality of rows and columns to a player;
- a symbol selector to select in each game round a plurality of symbols for display, subsets of the display positions corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reels, each reel comprising a plurality of symbols, each reel arranged to participate in a vertical spin game;
- a spin direction controller to control the correspondence of display positions to reels so that at least one game round is a diagonal spin game round, the diagonal spin game round to involve at least a subset of a plurality of available reels, the spin direction controller to configure, based on a trigger event, reels participating in the diagonal spin game round such that at least one display position on each participating reel is to spin diagonally with respect to a display position on another participating reel, wherein the spin direction controller in the diagonal spin game round shifts a top display position of at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in one direction and shifts a bottom display position of the at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in the other direction to provide an effect of a diagonal spin;
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- an outcome generator to determine an outcome for each game round based on the selected symbols.
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A game controller comprising:
- a symbol selector to select in each game round on a gaming system a plurality of symbols for display to a player in a set of display positions arranged in a plurality of rows and columns on a display, subsets of the display positions corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reels, each reel comprising a plurality of symbols, each reel arranged to participate in a vertical spin game;
- a spin direction controller to control the correspondence of display positions to reels so that at least one game round is a diagonal spin game round, the diagonal spin game round to involve at least a subset of a plurality of available reels, the spin direction controller to configure, based on a trigger event, reels participating in the diagonal spin game round such that at least one display position on each participating reel is to spin diagonally with respect to a display position on another participating reel, wherein the spin direction controller in the diagonal spin game round shifts a top display position of the at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in one direction and shifts a bottom display position of the at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in the other direction to provide an effect of a diagonal spin;
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- an outcome generator to determine an outcome for each game round based on the selected symbols.
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A tangible computer readable storage medium including computer program code which when executed by a computer causes the computer to implement a method of gaming comprising:
- determining, based on a random trigger event, occurrence of a diagonal spin game round, the diagonal spin game round to involve at least a subset of a plurality of available reels, each reel including a plurality of symbols, each symbol arranged at a display position on the reel, and each reel eligible to participate in a vertical spin game;
- configuring reels participating in the diagonal spin game round such that at least one display position on each participating reel is to spin diagonally with respect to a display position on another participating reel;
- facilitating spinning of at least the reels participating in the diagonal spin game round;
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- determining an outcome for the diagonal spin game round based on selected symbols,
- wherein configuring reels in the diagonal spin game round comprises shifting a top display position of at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in one direction and a bottom display position of the at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in the other direction to provide an effect of a diagonal spin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.