Patent ID: 11961368
Assignee: LNW GAMING, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A gaming system comprising:
a gaming machine including an electronic display device configured to display an array of symbol positions and registers, the registers being associated with respective subsets of the symbol positions of the array, and
game-logic circuitry configured to perform the operations of:
animating, via the electronic display device, a plurality of spins of symbol-bearing reels wherein, in each spin, the symbol-bearing reels are spun and stopped to land a plurality of symbols borne by the reels in the array, the plurality of symbols including value-bearing symbols;
for each value-bearing symbol in the plurality of symbols,
visually adding, by the electronic display device, a value borne by the value-bearing symbol to the register associated with the subset containing the symbol position in which the value-bearing symbol landed,
animating, by the electronic display device, the array to tag the symbol position in which the value-bearing symbol landed; and
in response to an initial value-bearing symbol landing in that subset, initiate a subset counter associated with that subset, wherein the electronic display device presents the subset counter;

in response to tagging all the symbol positions in that subset, presenting, by the electronic display device, an award for the value in the register associated with that subset; and
in response to the subset counter meeting a termination count,
visually resetting, by the electronic display device, the value in the register associated with that subset, and
animating, by the electronic display device, the array to untag all the symbol positions in that subset.