Patent ID: 9478107
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A gaming machine for conducting a game, the game machine comprising: a display device configured to display a cell matrix including a plurality of cells, each cell indicates a portion of a virtual reel of a plurality of virtual reels respectively adopted to the cell, each virtual reel deploying a virtual reel strip having a plurality of fixed symbol positions and a variable symbol position, wherein each fixed symbol position includes a predefined symbol of a plurality of symbols; a user input device configured to generate a signal indicative of player input; and a control unit connected to the display device and the user input device, the control unit configured to: accept the signal from the user input device and initiate the game; for each cell of the cell matrix: identify a first plurality of the virtual reels having related symbols in the outcome of the game; responsively spin or stop the first plurality of the virtual reels in a first manner; and spin or stop a second plurality of the virtual reels in a second manner to indicate the symbols associated with the selected symbol positions in the cell matrix, wherein the first and second manners are different.