Patent ID: 9728034
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a controller; at least one electronic display; at least one player input device; non-transitory machine-readable code executable by said controller to cause a slot reel symbol to be displayed in association with each of a plurality of symbol positions corresponding to two or more slot reels, each slot reel symbol having a primary attribute; non-transitory machine-readable code executable by said controller to designate a geometric pattern which moves to and designates one of a plurality of subsets of said plurality of symbol positions, said subsets comprising at least two of said symbol positions but not all of said symbol positions; and non-transitory machine-readable code executable by said controller to cause said slot reel symbols which are displayed in said subset of symbol positions designated by said geometric pattern to take on a secondary attribute, wherein said slot reel symbols have a ranking and said secondary attribute comprises a highest ranked symbol of said slot reel symbols within said subset of symbols.