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

Claim 0:
1. 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 random 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 random symbols is displayed at each of the random quantity of active symbol display positions for the play of the game, responsive to any of the random symbols displayed at any of the active symbol display positions for a requisite number of the plurality of reels forming a string of related symbols corresponding to a winning symbol combination, cause a display, by the display device, of an award, wherein each formed string of related symbols includes one symbol for each reel and the requisite number of adjacent reels is at least two.