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

Claim 0:
1. An electronic gaming system comprising:
a main display configured to display a game comprising a plurality of adjacent spinnable reels, each spinnable reel being virtual and having a plurality of rows of game symbol positions on the reel for displaying a symbol within an associated game symbol position, the plurality of adjacent spinnable reels including at least a first spinnable reel and a second spinnable reel;
a game controller communicatively coupled to the display; and
a memory device storing instructions, which when executed by the game controller cause the game controller, to at least:
initiate a first round of play upon receipt of a player input, thereby causing a simulated spinning of the plurality of adjacent spinnable reels;
change to a metamorphic reel game for the first round of play based on a received output from a random number generator;
generate 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;
generating a morphed symbol based on rankings of the compared symbols; and
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 the reduced number of reels that includes the morphed reel.