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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2013
Igt, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Boris Hallerbach, Reno, NV (US);
Gretchan P. Pooser, Reno, NV (US);
Harvey Duenas, Reno, NV (US);
Dave Ross, Reno, NV (US);
Marc Meugniot, Sun Valley, NV (US);
Dana Veltman, Reno, NV (US);
Thomas Allen, II, Reno, NV (US);
Kimberly A. Burgess, Sparks, NV (US);
Lukas Blake, Sparks, NV (US);
Ken Jacobs, Maryland Heights, MO (US);
Erik Warren, Sparks, NV (US);
IGT, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing a slot game in which, for each play of the slot game, different sets of symbols are randomly associated with different symbol display areas and used to determine an outcome for that play of the slot game. Generally, for each play of the slot game, the gaming system does so by: (a) randomly associating each of a plurality of different sets of symbols with a different one of a plurality of different symbol display areas; (b) for each of the sets of symbols, randomly selecting one of the symbols of that set to determine an outcome for that play of the slot game; and (c) displaying the randomly selected symbols at the associated symbol display areas (i.e., displaying the determined outcome).