Patent ID: 9202337
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying a game and providing an award to a player via a gaming machine to facilitate increasing player interest and increasing profitability of the gaming machine, comprising the steps of: allowing a player, through a value accepting device which accepts physical media indicating a monetary value, to make a wager to initiate a game, the game including a plurality of reels being displayed on a display device, each of the reels displaying a plurality of symbols; detecting, through a controller, a trigger event; generating, through the controller, an outcome associated with the game including generating a random number and selecting a combination of symbols from a database as a function of the random number and displaying the outcome including spinning and stopping the reels to display the selected combination of symbols on the display device; determining, through the controller, if the generated outcome is a winning outcome as a function of the combination of symbols; determining, through the controller, a number of previous games played prior to the winning outcome; calculating, through the controller a scaling factor equal to the determined number of previous games played divided by a trigger event cycle; and providing, through the controller, an award to the player based at least in part on the winning outcome, a paytable being stored in the database, and the scaling factor.