Patent ID: 9582967
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. An electronic gaming machine comprising: a display for displaying a first array of game symbols for playing a game, where the game symbols are arranged in two or more columns and predetermined winning combinations of randomly selected game symbols award prizes to a player, vending slots to receive physical monetary bets, and an electronic game controller in electronic communication with the display and the vending slots and adapted to control the display of game symbols on the display, to permit a player to select a number of pay lines depending on the amount of the monetary bet, and to award a prize if any predetermined winning combinations appear in a selected pay line during the game, wherein, said electronic game controller causes the display of two or more second arrays of game enhancing elements, said two or more second arrays being associated with said two or more columns of said first array, and wherein in response to a trigger event occurring in said two or more columns, said electronic game controller causes said two or more second arrays to each randomly award one or more game enhancing elements, said one or more game enhancing elements of one of the two or more second arrays selected from one of (i) free games, (ii) win multipliers, (iii) wild multipliers, (iv) bonus wilds, (v) symbols that cause the award of additional free games, (vi) trigger symbols to retrigger said at least two second arrays, (vii) held columns, (viii) random wild symbols, (ix) progressives, (x) bonus credits, (xi) jackpot symbols, and (xii) one or more symbol replacements, and said one or more game enhancing elements of another of the two or more second arrays selected from a different one of (i) to (xii), said game enhancing elements simultaneously modifying one or more subsequent games played on the first array, wherein said first array comprises at least three columns and said two or more second arrays comprise at least three second arrays, with a corresponding second array for each column, said one or more game enhancing elements of each array of the at least three second arrays selected from a different one of (i) to (xii).