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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2011
Prashant Arora, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott A. Caputo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alan Robert Weiss, Petaluma, CA (US);
Prashant Arora, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott A. Caputo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alan Robert Weiss, Petaluma, CA (US);
IGT, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a gaming system, device, and method providing a cascading symbols feature. For a play of a game, the system generates and displays one of a plurality of symbols at each of a plurality of symbol display areas, and determines any awards associated with the displayed symbols. If a triggering event occurs, the system determines a set of the displayed symbols. For each displayed symbol of the determined set, the system removes that displayed symbol, resulting in an empty symbol display area. For each empty symbol display area, the system repositions one of the other displayed symbols, which creates a second empty symbol display area, and causes at least one of any repositioned symbols to be a wild symbol. The system generates and displays one of the symbols at each of any second empty symbol display areas, and determines any additional awards associated with the displayed symbols.