Patent ID: 9082259
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming machine-enabled method for enhancing game play, the gaming machine-enabled method comprising: providing one or more game servers that are connected to a physical game network; providing a plurality of gaming machines that are connected to the one or more game servers via the physical game network, each gaming machine having a processor, a memory, and program logic stored in the memory executable to play a specific game in exchange for a wager, each gaming machine including a voucher writer and a voucher reader; receiving, by one gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines, a Newprom award issued and printed by the voucher writer of another gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines; reading, by the voucher reader of the one gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines, a Newprom award issued and printed by the voucher writer of another gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines; executing, using the processor of the one gaming machine, the specific game of the one gaming machine; and altering, using the processor of the one gaming machine, the specific game to an enhanced game state in response to the processor processing the received Newprom award, wherein the Newprom award is configured to add one or more game play enhancements available to a player only by way of the Newprom award to the specific game, thereby altering, using the processor of the one gaming machine, the specific game to the enhanced game state so that the specific game is played with the one or more game play enhancements, wherein the game play enhancements comprise a change in a game play, game format, game style or game type of the specific game, additional pay lines to the at specific game, additional winning indicia for the specific game, or any combination thereof, wherein at least one of the one or more game servers verifies Newprom award voucher information against records in a database.