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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129588 | GAMING DEVICE AND METHOD PRODIVING RELATIVELY LARGE AWARDS WITH VARIABLE PLAYER PARTICIPATION LEVELS A number matching game which includes a matching game with multiple number sets. A player can win standard Keno paytable awards in addition to relatively large awards. A player's initial set has a minimum size requirement for the player to be eligible for the relatively... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120129589 | GAMING SYSTEM, GAMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PLAYER SELECTION OF MODIFIERS TO GAME COMPONENTS In one embodiment, the gaming system and method disclosed herein provides a plurality of gaming devices that each participate in a group game including a plurality of masked group game components and determines and provides separate awards to each player of the gaming d... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108307 | Electronic Casino Games Having Primary Games and Side Games A gaming system may be operable to store a first set of operational rules for determining a first condition for a primary game, and a second set of operational rules for determining a second condition for a side game that is different from the primary game. Additionally... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108318 | Chain Reaction Game A game, gaming machine apparatus and game method wherein game elements are assigned to a matrix of game element locations. Play is initiated by evaluating the game elements for predetermined transformative conditions, such as a match of game elements. If a transformativ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108317 | GAMING SYSTEM, GAMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CASCADING SYMBOLS WITH WILD FEATURES A cascading symbol game includes designated symbols such as wild symbols. In the cascading symbol game, a gaming device generates and displays a symbol from a plurality of symbols for each of a plurality of symbol positions. The gaming device removes at least one symbol... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108316 | GAMING SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF GAMING A gaming method, game controller, gaming system, and computer program code are disclosed where play can be conducted in a game having a plurality of symbols for use during play. Game win outcomes are determined by one or more symbols occurring according to game play rul... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120108315 | GAMING MACHINE HAVING TWO IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICES A gaming machine is provided which is capable of causing a player's eye to smoothly move from a main game to a rendering when the rendering is started. When a predetermined number or more of predetermined symbols are displayed on a first di... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083329 | GAMING MACHINE AND METHOD HAVING A PERCEIVED SKILL COMPONENT Disclosed are a gaming machine and method including a perceived skill component comprising a skill-based award and a supplemental award that, when summed, are equal in value to a predetermined award.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083327 | Symbol and Reel Substitution Methods for Multi-Line Slot Machines A method of operating a slot machine, and a slot machine in which the method may be used. One or more symbols on a reel are replaced with symbols prescribed by a selected schema. The schema may be selected randomly, or according to a weighted probability, or according t... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083328 | METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER A method of gaming in a gaming system. The method comprises a) generating a game outcome comprising a set plurality of symbols, b) displaying the game outcome, c) identifying the number of instances of one or more specified symbols occurring in the set of symbols, d) in... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120071225 | 3D REELS A mechanical reel (32) for a gaming system (10) is disclosed. The reel (32) has a circumferential reel surface (48). The reel (32) has at least one symbol bearing surface (50) offset from the reel surface.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071224 | System and Method for Identifying Errors in Slot Machine and Video Lottery Terminal Games The present invention provides a testing system, apparatus and program for efficiently testing VLT games and other games before they are installed. The present invention uses input elements, pay lines and pay table information to generate test cases for each permutation... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071227 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING WINNING OUTCOMES IN A REEL SPINNING GAME Various embodiments are directed to a method for enhancing the outcome of a reel spinning game having one or more shared award-modifier reels. An embodiment of the method includes providing a game including a first set of reels, a second set of reels, and a shared base ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071223 | System and Method for Generating and Placing Combination Bets A method and system for generating and receiving a combination bet may include presenting a plurality of betting events in a display resembling a slot machine. In one embodiment, the user may place a total wager for a combination bet prior to knowing what the betting ev... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071226 | Wagering Game System with Community Gaming System A method of conducting a wagering game on a gaming system, the method including receiving an indication of a wager and displaying outcomes of wagering games on at least one display device in response to a wager indication being received, the displayed outcomes being ran... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120052936 | Method to Drive an Auxiliary Wagering Game Using a Reeled Slot Machine A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to drive an auxiliary game using resultant reel stops on a slot machine. Reel stops can have an action or property associated with them which affects the auxiliary game. When a player spins reels on the slot machine, th... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052937 | WAGERING GAMING DEVICE HAVING SIMULATED CONTROL OF MOVEMENT OF GAME FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS A wagering gaming device that enables a player to affect the movement of a functional element of a game by use of a user input device. More specifically, the present invention provides a processor controlled wagering gaming device that receives input from a user input d... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052935 | CONFIGURATION FOR ITERATIVE BONUS GAME WITH SYMBOL TRANSFORMATION A reel based bonus game with a predetermined quantity of iterations that is initiated based upon a predetermined bonus game entry criterion in a reel based base game being met is established. The predetermined bonus game entry criterion is a predetermined arrangement of... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046089 | VIDEO SLOT GAMING MACHINE A gaming machine and method are provided which provide a slot game to a player. The slot game includes a plurality of cells arranged in a grid. The grid has a plurality of rows and columns. The game is played and an initial outcome is established and any payouts based o... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046090 | GAMING SYSTEM, GAMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WAGERING GAME HAVING A UNIQUE BONUS ROUND PLAY A gaming system, a gaming machine and a method is provided in which the player plays a primary game or a base game on a gaming device. During the play of the primary game or the base game, the player accrues value points. At one or more times, a player participates in a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046091 | ELECTRONIC AMUSEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GAME OFFERING CONTINUOUS REELS A gaming device and method for controlling operating the gaming device is disclosed. The gaming device initiates a paid play, and determines an outcome of the play. The outcome is visually displayed using at least two graphical displays. The graphical displays comprise ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120046092 | GAMING SYSTEM HAVING DYNAMICALLY CHANGING IMAGE REEL SYMBOLS A system for dynamically changing the graphical content on slot machine reels is disclosed herein. The system includes reel displays and data transmission techniques which provide for dynamically updating or changing the graphics on the reel displays in a slot machine. ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040734 | VIDEO SLOT GAMING MACHINE A gaming machine and method are provided which provide a video slot game to a player. The video slot game includes a plurality of cells arranged in a grid. The grid has a plurality of rows and columns. The machine and method display a first instance of the video slot ga... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040736 | METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM, AND A GAME CONTROLLER Certain examples disclose a gaming system comprising a display, a symbol selector, a symbol evaluator and a symbol modifier. The example symbol selector is arranged to select a plurality of sets of symbols for display on the display. The example symbol evaluator is arra... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040738 | GAMING MACHINE HAVING A DISPLAY AND SPEAKER SYSTEM WITH LIGHT PIPING MATERIAL Gaming machines having video depictions of one or more mechanical reels projected onto a curved display are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the gaming machine includes a curved transparent material having an outer surface, an inner surface, and a radius of curvatur... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040735 | METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM, AND A GAME CONTROLLER There is disclosed a gaming system comprising a display 54, a symbol selector 623, a symbol evaluator 625 and a symbols modifier 626. The symbol selector 623 is arranged to select a plurality of sets of symbols for display on the displ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040737 | GAMING SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF GAMING A method of gaming comprising: (a) conducting a game round in which a plurality of symbols are selected; (b) determining a current number of available game rounds based at least on whether or not the selected symbols include at least one designated symbol subsequent to ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120040739 | GAMING SYSTEM AND METHOD HAVING WAGER ALLOCATION A gaming system which displays a plurality of reels. Each reel is associated with a display area which displays a symbol. A wager is allocated to each one of the display areas. An award is determined based, at least in part, on such allocation.... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120034967 | WAGERING GAME, REEL-BASED GAMING MACHINE AND METHOD WITH ANTICIPATION LIGHTING A wagering game is operable on a reel-based gaming machine which has the capability to selectively illuminate one or more reels with one or more colors of graduating intensity. In conjunction with the stopping sequence of the reels for a given play of the wagering game,... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034968 | WAGERING GAME, GAMING MACHINE, GAMING SYSTEM, AND METHOD WITH A PLAYER-DETERMINABLE FEATURE GAME ASPECT A wagering game, gaming machine, networked gaming system, and associated methods are disclosed including a bank of gaming machines connected to an overhead display enabling players at the respective gaming machines to qualify to play a player-interactive community featu... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034969 | GAMING DEVICE HAVING A PLURALITY OF WILDCARD SYMBOL PATTERNS A gaming device which includes a variety of methods to allow the player to select patterns of wildcard symbols, from a plurality of wildcard symbol patterns, and use those patterns during subsequent games. One embodiment allows the player to select a pattern of wildcard... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034965 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GAMING A gaming machine for playing a game. The gaming machine comprises a display and a game control configured to control images of symbols to be displayed on the display. Symbols are stored for positioning in an array. The symbols are divided into game specific standard sym... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034966 | Wagering Game with Hot Pick Bonus Disclosed are games, gaming machines, gaming systems and methods including a hot pick bonus. A player selects one of a number of indicia/symbols and initiates a primary slot machine game spin. If a predetermined number of the selected symbols appear as the result of the... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120028698 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMPLOYING FLAT RATE PLAY Systems and methods are provided allowing a player to play a gaming device and receive a predetermined number of outcomes in exchange for a payment. The gaming device generates at least the predetermined number of outcomes, and adjusts a balance of the player device bas... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028699 | GAMING MACHINES HAVING RHYTHMIC REELS A gaming machine and methods for independently controlling the movement of each mechanical reel are disclosed. The gaming machine includes a plurality of mechanical reels each having indicia provided on an outer surface of each of the reels. A game controller generates ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120028697 | COMMUNITY AWARD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Disclosed are community award distribution systems and related methods, which are arranged to control an award made to a user playing the systems. Also disclosed, the community award systems are arranged to communicate over the Internet and/or make use of the World Wide... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120021817 | GAMING MACHINE WITH INTERACTIVE BONUSING A gaming machine has a display and a game controller arranged to control images on the display. The game controller is arranged to playa game wherein one or more random events are caused to be displayed on the display and, if a predefined winning event of combination of... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120021816 | PROGRESSIVE WAGERING GAME HAVING SYMBOL-TRIGGERING AWARD FEATURE Gaming devices, gaming systems, methods of conducting a wagering game, and computer programs for initiating a wagering game are presented herein. A gaming device is presented that includes a wager input device, a display, and at least one controller. The controller exec... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120015700 | APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AMUSEMENT Certain non-limiting exemplary embodiments are taught which include a game comprising, a digital processor, digital storage coupled to the digital processor for storing instructions, a display coupled to the digital processor displaying a first plurality of indicia arra... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120015707 | WAGERING GAMES WITH BONUS GAME ACCRUAL THROUGH MULTIPLE PLAYS OF A BASIC GAME Gaming devices, gaming systems, methods of conducting a wagering game, and computer programs for initiating a wagering game are presented herein. One concept of the present disclosure is directed to earning bonus features through play of multiple games in series or in p... | 01/19/2012 |
