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Chris Peterson

Nathan Ajhar

Nick Hillstrom

Yu Chong

Stephen E Schmitt

Mark Rosland

Lauren Hillstrom

Arthur Levesque

Shawn Hupp

Mike Trenhalle

Mike Trenhaile

Systems and methods that utilize connecting symbols accumulated in association with one or more game outcomes to activate one or more features.

Accumulating connected symbols for feature activations

A first electronic gaming machine ('EGM') includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the EGM to perform operations. The operations include determining that an event has been triggered on a second EGM. The second EGM can be separate from the first EGM. The operations can further include, responsive to determining that the event has been triggered on the second EGM, providing an incentive on the first EGM.

Proximity increased chances of win during special event

Gaming systems and methods that provides plays of a game wherein the selection of different symbol display positions of a symbol display position matrix to be active symbol display positions changes volatility of the plays of the game. The systems and methods also provide plays of a game wherein the selection of different symbol display positions of a symbol display position matrix to be non-active symbol display positions changes volatility of the plays of the game.

Changing volatility via selectable active symbol display positions

Gaming systems and method that provide a player wheel set selection feature including a displayed wheel having a plurality of displayed player selectable sections for a play of a game, and wherein the quantity of sections selectable by the player is at least one and less than all of the sections of the wheel.

Player wheel section set selection

Gaming systems and method that provide a banked bonus player selection feature including a symbol display such as a displayed wheel having a plurality of displayed player selectable sections for a play of a multi-player game.

Banked bonus player selection

A computer implemented method of operating a gaming system can include determining that a first event has been triggered on a first electronic gaming machine ('EGM'). The method can further include, responsive to determining that the first event has been triggered on the first EGM, causing a probability of triggering a second event on a second EGM to be adjusted based on a proximity of the second EGM to the first EGM.

Gaming systems and methods that provide a wheel section selection feature including a displayed wheel including a plurality of displayed gaming system selectable sections for a play of a secondary game. In various embodiments, one or more shared sections of the wheel and/or a wheel section indicator associated with the wheel are enhanced for the play of the secondary game based on a wager level in a play of the primary game.

Wheel section selection

Gaming systems and method that provide a play of a multi-stage game including a first stage during which a quantity of sections of a wheel are accumulated for subsequent use in a second stage of the play of the multi-stage game, and the second stage during which the accumulated quantity of sections of the wheel are employed to select sections of the wheel before the sections are displayed with awards displayed in association with the selected sections.

Multi-stage player wheel section set selection

Gaming systems and methods that replicate a symbol driven event obtained at one gaming device at one or more other gaming devices.

Replicating symbol driven events across multiple gaming devices

Systems and methods which employ one or more reels that expand and contract responsive to the occurrence of (or lack thereof) different events.

Expanding and contracting reels

A method comprises initiating a gaming session for a grid-based game, tracking a number of consecutive losing plays of the grid-based game during the gaming session, and providing a player of the grid-based game with an option to reuse a wild symbol that appears in one play of the number of consecutive losing plays in a next play when the number of consecutive losing plays exceeds a threshold. The method further comprises receiving first input from the player to reuse the wild symbol in the next play, generating, in response to the first input, a sequence of symbols comprising the wild symbol, and causing a display to display the sequence of symbols populated in the array of cells.

Gaming devices, systems, and methods for reusing wild symbols

In certain embodiments, the present disclosure relates to or gaming system providing a game enhancement feature. The electronic game can be conducted on a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of a grid and a variable plurality of symbols can be presented in the plurality of rows and the plurality of columns of the grid. When the game enhancement feature of the electronic game is activated, an indication of the game enhancement feature can be provided to a player of the electronic game. A determination of an outcome of the electronic game can be made based on the variable plurality of symbols presented in the plurality of rows and the plurality of columns of the grid upon termination of the electronic game and the determined outcome of the electronic game can be modified based on the game enhancement feature.

Drop down multiplier panel

A gaming system and method that provides a changing pattern matching award feature in a gaming environment, which includes a plurality of different patterns that are independently and randomly selectable and displayable by the gaming system during a series of plays of one or more games via one or more electronic gaming machines or other devices of the gaming system or configured to operate with the gaming system.

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Reno, NV, United States of America

Chris Peterson