Patent ID: 8579698
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A video slot machine, comprising: a microprocessor; a display screen; player actuated inputs for establishing credits to make wagers; an application program for the microprocessor operative to generate a display of the credits to the player with the credits being augmented when the player wins a wager and decremented when a wager is lost; the application program being operative to generate images on said display screen of a set of rotatable reels which are divided into a plurality of subsets of reels, each reel having images of a plurality of symbols so that as the images of the reels rotate, different symbols are selected for display; a player actuated switch connected to the microprocessor for transmitting a signal which initiates rotation of the reel images on the display screen; the application program being operative to accept a sequence of credits from said player actuated inputs, each credit representing a wager associated with the activation of one of the subsets of reels in sequence; the application program being operative upon a player actuating said switch to rotate in sequence the activated subsets of reels subsequent to the first subset of reels dependent upon a predetermined condition associated with the previous rotation in the sequence; and wherein if the predetermined condition is not met in one of the subset of rotations in the sequence, then the sequence of rotations is terminated, and the wagers on the rotations following said rotation in which the predetermined condition is not met are credited to the player.