Patent ID: 8500539
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a gaming machine, the method including: (a) displaying an image of a card at an electronic display device of the gaming machine, the image of the card including an n row by m column matrix of locations with one or more paylines defined across the matrix of locations, and wherein a paytable for the gaming machine defines one or more winning paylines, each winning payline being correlated in the paytable with one or more awards; (b) with a system of one or more processors associated with the gaming machine, causing the electronic display device to randomly populate each of the locations with indicia from a finite set of indicia, the number of locations being less than the size of the finite set; (c) with the system of one or more processors associated with the gaming machine, randomly selecting an indicia from the finite set and determining whether a match occurs on the card between the randomly selected indicia and an indicia populating a location of the matrix; (d) if a match occurs in step (c), then: (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) until a predetermined number of indicia have been selected and any match has been daubed and rotated according to step (d); (f) with the system of one or more processors associated with the gaming machine, identifying any winning paylines produced in the displayed card image through steps (c), (d), and (e); and (g) for each winning payline identified at step (f), providing the one or more awards correlated to that respective winning payline in the paytable.