Gaming system and a method of gaming
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorAntoon Christiaan Visser
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Abstract
A method of gaming comprises initiating a jackpot event responsive to receiving an event trigger; determining whether to award a prize to a player in the jackpot event, the probability of awarding the prize in the jackpot event being dependent on a value of a jackpot evaluation parameter accumulated over a plurality of games; and awarding the prize in response to making a positive determination.
Claims17
A method of determining whether to pay out a jackpot of a game conducted on a gaming machine, the method comprising:
- accepting credit from a user through at least one of a coin acceptor, a bill validator, a ticket reader, and a card reader;
- electronically tracking, after a jackpot is awarded on the gaming machine, an amount of money wagered from the accepted credit each time a base game of the gaming machine is played;
- determining a jackpot evaluation parameter based on the electronically tracked amount of money, wherein the value of the jackpot evaluation parameter is associated with a value or number of special symbols detected in each of a plurality of games of the base game;
- displaying an indicator of a probability of the user winning the jackpot game, based on the determined jackpot evaluation parameter;
- initiating the jackpot event responsive to receiving an event trigger from the user via a gaming machine console of the gaming machine;
- executing the jackpot game to determine whether to award a prize to the user triggering the jackpot event based on a value of the jackpot evaluation parameter when the event trigger is initiated by the user;
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- awarding the prize in response to making a positive determination, and not awarding the prize in response to making a negative determination.
A jackpot controller of a gaming machine, the jackpot controller comprising:
- a processor for use in detecting whether to pay out configured to:
- accept credit from a user input through at least one of a coin acceptor, a bill validator, a ticket reader, and a card reader;
- electronically track, after a jackpot is awarded on the gaming machine, an amount of money wagered each time a base game of the gaming machine is played;
- determine a jackpot evaluation parameter based on the electronically tracked amount of money, wherein the jackpot evaluation parameter is associated with a value or number of special symbols detected in each of a plurality of games of the base game;
- display an indicator of a probability of the user winning the jackpot game, based on the determined jackpot evaluation parameter;
- a jackpot event module configured to initiate a jackpot event responsive to detecting an event trigger from the user via a gaming machine console of the gaming machine;
- a determination module configured to execute the jackpot game to determine whether to award a prize to the user triggering the jackpot event based on a value of the jackpot evaluation parameter when the event trigger is initiated by the user;
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- an award module configured to award the prize in response to a positive determination being made by the determination module, and not award the prize in response to a negative determination by the determination module.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including computer program code and processor logic to execute the computer program code, the computer program code, when executed by the processor logic, implements a method of determining whether to pay out a jackpot of a game conducted on a gaming machine, the method comprising:
- accepting credit from a user through at least one of a coin acceptor, a bill validator, a ticket reader, and a card reader;
- electronically tracking, after a jackpot is awarded on the gaming machine, an amount of money wagered from the accepted credit each time a base game of the gaming machine is played;
- determining a jackpot evaluation parameter based on the electronically tracked amount of money, wherein the value of the jackpot evaluation parameter is associated with a value or number of special symbols detected in each of a plurality of games of the base game;
- displaying an indicator of a probability of the user winning the jackpot game, based on the determined jackpot evaluation parameter;
- initiating a jackpot event responsive to receiving an event trigger from the user via a gaming machine console of the gaming machine;
- executing the jackpot game to determine whether to award a prize to the user triggering the jackpot event based on a value of the jackpot evaluation parameter when the event trigger is initiated by the user;
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- awarding the prize in response to making a positive determination, and not awarding the prize in response to making a negative determination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.