Patent ID: 8128495
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for interacting with mechanical reels via a video screen, the method comprising: providing a gaming machine having one or more mechanical reels positioned behind a video screen, the mechanical reels including symbols, and the video screen including a touch screen and user interface for receiving user input; receiving a player bet; spinning the one or more mechanical reels and during the spinning of the mechanical reels, receiving a signal from the user interface to stop spinning one identified particular mechanical reel while at least one mechanical reel continues to spin; stopping the mechanical reels and producing a first game outcome visible to the player through the video screen; receiving a request via the user interface to rearrange the placement order of video representations of the mechanical reels; and displaying, on the video screen, the rearranged order of video representations of the mechanical reels producing a second game outcome while the mechanical reels to which the video representations correspond are still visible in their original stopped positions, and wherein the video representations of the mechanical reels used to produce the second game outcome represent a rearranged order of all mechanical reels used to produce the first game outcome.