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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2006
Howard Mitchell Marks, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Anthony Mark Singer, Ringwood, NJ (US);
Daniel Mordecai Marks, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Howard Mitchell Marks, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Anthony Mark Singer, Ringwood, NJ (US);
Daniel Mordecai Marks, Cold Spring, NY (US);
PTT LLC, Mahwah, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides methods for a player to become sequentially eligible for a bonus event based upon the appearance of predetermined symbols in designated locations of the symbol matrix during the play of one or more rounds of a slot machine game. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a specific predetermined symbol must appear in each of the columns comprising the symbol matrix during the play of one or more free spins of the slot machine game to initiate a bonus event.