Patent ID: 9659445
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. An electronic gaming apparatus comprising: an output device operable to display N slot machine reels; an input device; a processor; and a non-transitory storage medium storing a paytable and instructions, wherein said instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform the steps of: determining at least one result symbol on each of a plurality of N slot machine reels; determining an N−1-reel conditional expected value for each specific slot machine reel out of the N slot machine reels, wherein an N−1-reel conditional expected value is equivalent to an expected value of said specific slot machine reel being unresolved while each slot machine reel other than said specific slot machine reel has resolved to display respective at least one result symbols; determining a last reel with a highest N−1-reel conditional expected value; resolving all of the N slot machine reels except the last reel; after the resolving all of the N slot machine reels except the last reel, resolving the last reel; and providing any rewards associated with result symbols on said resolved reels.