Patent ID: 11875633
Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, wherein when executed by at least one processor, the computer-executable instructions cause the processor to:
receive a request to start a first round of play on a gaming device, the first round of play including a simulated spinning of a plurality of adjacent spinnable reels, each spinnable reel being virtual and having a plurality of rows of game symbol positions on the reel including a symbol within an associated game symbol position, the plurality of adjacent spinnable reels including a first spinnable reel and a second spinnable reel;
change to a metamorphic reel game based on a received output from a random number generator;
generate a morphed reel based on the first spinnable reel and the second spinnable reel, wherein for each row of the first spinnable reel and the second spinnable reel, the morphed reel is generated by:
comparing symbols positioned in laterally adjacent rows of the first spinnable reel and the second spinnable reel; and
generating a morphed symbol based on rankings of the compared symbols;
adding the morphed symbol to a corresponding row of the morphed reel;

reduce the number of adjacent spinnable reels by replacing the first spinnable reel and the second spinnable reel with the morphed reel in the metamorphic reel game; and
determine, after reducing the number of adjacent spinnable reels, a game outcome for the first round of gameplay associated with a reduced number of reels that includes the morphed reel.