Patent ID: 8585486
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of gaming comprising: determining, based on a random trigger event, occurrence of a diagonal spin game round, the diagonal spin game round to involve at least a subset of a plurality of available reels, each reel including a plurality of symbols, each symbol arranged at a display position on the reel, and each reel eligible to participate in a vertical spin game; configuring reels participating in the diagonal spin game round such that at least one display position on each participating reel is to spin diagonally with respect to a display position on another participating reel; controlling the correspondence of display positions to reels so that at least one game round is a vertical spin game round in which the reels are arranged to spin vertically such that they correspond to respective ones of the columns; facilitating spinning of at least the reels participating in the diagonal spin game round; and determining an outcome for the diagonal spin game round based on selected symbols, wherein configuring reels in the diagonal spin game round comprises shifting a top display position of at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in one direction and a bottom display position of the at least one vertically spinning reel of the vertical spin game round horizontally in the other direction.