Patent ID: 11954977
Assignee: IGT
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A gaming system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor for a play of a game, cause the processor to:
cause a display, by a display device, of a symbol at each of a random quantity of active symbol display positions associated with a plurality of reels, wherein a size of each of the plurality of reels is constant independent of the random quantity of active symbol display positions associated with that reel, and
after each of the symbols is displayed at each of the random quantity of active symbol display positions for the play of the game:
for a first symbol evaluation:
cause a display, by the display device, of a removal of a first quantity of the symbols of any winning symbol combinations to create a first quantity of empty active symbol display positions associated with the plurality of reels, wherein any winning symbol combinations is partially based on a quantity of ways to win associated with the random quantity of active symbol display positions, and
cause a display, by the display device, of a symbol at each of the first quantity of empty active symbol display positions associated with the plurality of reels, and

for a second symbol evaluation, cause a display, by the display device, of any winning symbol combinations that is partially based on the quantity of ways to win associated with the random quantity of active symbol display positions.