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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2012
Applicant:
Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited, North Ryde NSW, AU;
Inventor:
Steven Rood, Henderson, NV (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G07F 17/34 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 17/34 (2013.01); G07F 17/3244 (2013.01); G07F 17/3267 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of gaming comprising: selecting a set of symbols for display to a player in a set of display positions corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reels; determining a game round outcome based on the selected symbols; determining that a feature game round should occur; and determining a feature game round outcome by determining an optimal winning combination of symbols from a feature subset of the set of symbols comprising more symbols than the number of reels.