Patent ID: 8784176
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. An electronic gaming device comprising: a plurality of reels, the plurality of reels including one or more areas; a memory; a processor configured to generate one or more symbols to be located in the one or more areas, the one or more symbols include a first directional contagious wild symbol and a first dormant wild symbol, the processor configured to determine one of a plurality of different predetermined directional movement path patterns to expand the first directional contagious wild symbol, the processor configured to determine a first interaction determination that determines a selected predetermined directional movement path pattern from the plurality of predetermined directional movement path patterns, the processor configured to modify the first dormant wild symbol into at least one of a contagious wild symbol and a wild symbol based on the selected predetermined directional movement path pattern and the processor configured to expand the first directional contagious wild symbol based on the selected predetermined directional movement path pattern into the first dormant wild symbol.