Patent ID: 9466181
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A method of facilitating a game on a gaming device having a display, a player input, a memory, a wager input device structured to accept currency, and a processor, wherein the memory stores a credit amount and a plurality of marking types including a first marking type having a dynamic functionality and a second marking type, the method comprising: receiving a signal from the wager input device indicating acceptance of currency; increasing the credit amount in memory based upon the received signal from the wager input device; receiving a signal on the gaming device to initiate a game, the signal indicating a wager amount, where the credit amount is reduced by the wager amount; randomly marking elements of a play area of the display with a plurality of markings in response to the game being initiated; evaluating the plurality of markings to determine if any of the elements in the play area are marked with the second marking type; changing markings on the elements marked with the first marking type in the play area to have the second marking type when no elements in the play area are marked with the second marking type based on the evaluation; and identifying one or more combinations of marked elements after the markings on the elements with the first marking type have been changed.