Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited

Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

Keith A Wood

Angelo Palmisano

Michael Henry D'Amico

Lattamore D Osburn

Tara L Young

An electronic gaming machine includes a game display having a graphical user interface (GUI). A game controller is in communication with the game display. The game controller controls the GUI to present a selectable tournament button that causes the player to enter a game tournament, displays a plurality of selectable tournament game options for the game tournament, receives a tournament game selection response indicating a selected one of the options, displays the selected tournament game, displays at the GUI during the selected tournament game, an exit button that returns the display to the base game and maintains player progress in the selected tournament game, re-displays the tournament button upon returning to the base game, the re-displayed tournament button enables the player to return to the selected tournament game with the maintained player progress, and displays a prompt to card-in, and provide an enhanced return to player (RTP).

Electronic gaming system for conducting a wagering game and method of use

An electronic gaming machine includes a game display with a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to receive an input from a player and a game controller. The game controller is configured to execute instructions stored in a memory. The instructions cause the game controller to control the GUI to present a selectable tournament button that causes the game controller to enter the player into a tournament. Upon receiving a tournament button selection a plurality of selectable tournament game options for the game tournament are displayed. The GUI receives a tournament game response indicating a the tournament game selected and the tournament game is displayed. A return button is displayed that returns the display to the base game and maintains player progress in the tournament. The tournament button is re-displayed enabling the player to return to the selected tournament game with the maintained player progress.

An electronic gaming machine, including a player interface, a game display, and a game controller. The player interface is configured to receive player selections from a player. The game controller is coupled to the player interface and the game display. The game controller is configured to control the game display to present the player an option to participate in a wagering game tournament, to receive, from the player interface according to the player selections, a first selection to participate in the wagering game tournament, to control the game display to present the player an option to select from among a plurality of games for the wagering game tournament, to receive, from the player interface according to the player selections, a second selection of a tournament game from the plurality of games, and conduct the tournament game via the player interface and the game display.

A gaming system () includes gaming machine groups (GR-GR) arranged to receive input data and to generate output progressive jackpot data relating to two or more progressive jackpots. A central database () stores the input data relating to the progressive jackpots. A monitoring computer () includes a local database (). The computer () obtains and temporarily stores the progressive jackpot output data.

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Keith A Wood