Patent ID: 8398471
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of conducting a feature game played by a player on a gaming machine, the method comprising: (a) providing, using a display means of the gaming machine, a representation of locations as an array, wherein each location has a position within the array, the locations having a spatial relationship with each of the other locations, and one of said locations of the array is designated as being a reference location; (b) establishing a sequence for the locations of the array, the sequence establishing one subsequent location with respect to the reference location and at least one non-subsequent location with respect to the reference location, wherein the sequence of locations, being unknown by the player, is stored in a memory of the gaming machine; (c) receiving from the player through an inputting means of the gaming machine a guessed spatial relationship of the subsequent location with respect to the reference location; (d) revealing on the displaying means to the player the location in the array of the subsequent location according to the sequence stored in the gaming machine memory and consequently the spatial relationship of the subsequent location with respect to the reference location, namely an actual spatial relationship; (e) evaluating the guessed spatial relationship as either correct or incorrect based on a comparison to the actual spatial relationship; and (f) evaluating fulfillment of a game-ending criterion, wherein non-fulfillment of the game-ending criterion results in: (g) changing the reference location by designating the subsequent location which is last revealed as the reference location, the newly-designated reference location having a position different from the previously-designated reference location in the array, thereby generating new player perceivable probabilities of providing a correct player input when guessing of a spatial relationship of a new subsequent location with respect to the newly-designated reference location; and (h) repeating at least once the steps (c) to (f) using the reference location which is last designated; while fulfillment of the game ending criterion results in: (i) performing an outcome evaluation of the game against a pay schedule stored in the memory; and (j) providing an award to the player based on the outcome evaluation of the game.