Patent ID: 9275509
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G07F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: setting, by at least one processor, a first counter within a computer-readable medium to an initial counter value, wherein the first counter tracks a quantity of counter prizes awarded to a player over the course of playing multiple video events from the initial counter value to a threshold value, wherein the initial counter value does not equal the threshold value; setting, by the at least one processor, a second counter within the computer-readable medium to a bonus prize value, wherein the second counter tracks a quantity of redeemable bonus prizes awarded to the player as the first counter tracks the quantity of counter prizes over the course of playing multiple video events, and wherein redemption of any bonus prize based on the bonus prize value of the second counter is restricted until the first counter is set to the threshold value; displaying, for each of the video events at a display device coupled to the at least one processor, an event symbol at each symbol position of an array of multiple symbol positions, wherein the event symbols to be displayed for each of the video events are determined anew for each of the video events by the at least one processor, wherein, for at least some of the video events, the displayed event symbols include two or more winning event symbols on a pay-line within the array that indicates a wager placed on the video event is a winning wager, and wherein each pay-line is defined by a subset of symbol positions within the array of multiple symbol positions; determining, by the at least one processor, a main prize for each winning wager; identifying, by the at least one processor for each winning wager, a single winning event symbol selected from the two or more winning event symbols on the pay-line within the array that indicates the wager placed on the video event is a winning wager, and wherein each winning event symbol of the two or more winning event symbols on the pay-line other than the single winning event symbol is a non-selected winning event symbol; awarding, by the at least one processor, a next counter prize that results in the at least one processor setting the first counter to an updated counter value in response to selection of the single winning event symbol during an individual video event; displaying, at the display device simultaneously, each non-selected winning event symbol of the two or more winning event symbols and a prize symbol that reveals the next counter prize, wherein the prize symbol is displayed at a symbol position of the display device at which the single winning event symbol was displayed when each of the two or more winning event symbols were displayed, and wherein the single winning event symbol is not displayed at the symbol position while the prize symbol is displayed at the symbol position; displaying, at the display device, a first counter-display and a second counter-display during the playing of the multiple video events, wherein displaying the first counter-display includes displaying the updated counter value set in the first counter after both the player is awarded the next counter prize and the display device displays a prior counter value set within the first counter, wherein the updated counter value is in between the prior counter value and the threshold value, and wherein displaying the second counter-display includes displaying the quantity of redeemable bonus prizes; and performing, by the at least one processor after awarding a counter prize to the player that results in the first counter being set to the threshold value, an action to redeem at least one redeemable bonus prize awarded to the player.