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

Claim 12:
13. A method of electronic gaming implemented using a gaming system, the gaming system including a main display configured to display a game that includes a plurality of adjacent spinnable reels, a player input interface, one or more memory devices, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memory devices, the method comprising:
initiating a first round of play upon receipt of an input from the player input interface;
simulating a spinning of the adjacent spinnable reels, each of the adjacent spinnable reels being virtual and having a plurality of rows of game symbol positions for displaying a symbol within an associated game symbol position, the plurality of adjacent spinnable reels including a first spinnable reel and a second spinnable reel;
changing to a metamorphic reel game for the first round of play based on a received output from a random number generator;
generating a morphed reel using 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;

reducing 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
determining, after reducing the number of adjacent spinnable reels, a game outcome for the first round of gameplay associated with the reduced number of reels that includes the morphed reel.