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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2012
Scott A. Caputo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ryan William Cuddy, Reno, NV (US);
Rogelio S. Decasa, Sparks, NV (US);
Benjamin Mikal Fuller, Sparks, NV (US);
Carl Victor Kniesteadt, Reno, NV (US);
Alan Robert Weiss, Paetaluma, CA (US);
Scott A. Caputo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ryan William Cuddy, Reno, NV (US);
Rogelio S. Decasa, Sparks, NV (US);
Benjamin Mikal Fuller, Sparks, NV (US);
Carl Victor Kniesteadt, Reno, NV (US);
Alan Robert Weiss, Paetaluma, CA (US);
IGT, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
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 devices based on the amount of modifiers applied to each of the group game components having a modifier applied by the player of that gaming device. In one embodiment, the gaming system enables each player to selectively apply or associate a plurality of modifiers to a single game component or apply the plurality of modifiers across the plurality of game components. For each gaming device, the gaming system displays and provides any awards to the player of that gaming device.