Patent AU-2014201484-A1 (AU)
Title: Gaming system and method providing a multiplay slot game including a cascading symbols feature in which symbols are removed from corresponding symbol display areas of different sets of symbol display areas
Inventor: LEUPP JON M
IPC: A63F13/45
Filed: 2014-03-13
Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a game including a cascading symbols feature in which symbols are removed from corresponding symbol display areas of different sets of symbol display areas. In one embodiment, the gaming system displays a first set and a second set of symbol display areas. For each symbol display area, the gaming system displays one of a plurality of different symbols at that symbol display area. If a designated symbol combination is formed by the symbols displayed at the symbol display areas of the first set, the gaming system removes the symbols displayed at the symbol display areas of the second set that correspond to the symbol display area of the first set displaying the symbols forming the designated symbol combination. SYMBOL DISPLAY AREAS OF DIFFERENT SETS OF SYMBOL DISPLAY AREAS Applicant: IGT Inventors: Jon M. Leupp et al. Docket No.: 025094-7210 Sheet I of 14 Display a first set of a plurality of symbol display areas Display a second different set of a plurality of symbol display areas, wherein for each of the symbol display 104 areas of the first set, that symbol display area corresponds to one of the symbol display areas of the second set For each of the symbol display areas, display one of a 106 plurality of different symbols at that symbol display area Determine if any of a plurality of different winning symbol combinations are formed by the symbols displayed at the symbol display areas of the first set Determine if any of the winning symbol 110 combinations are formed by the symbols displayed at the symbol display areas of the second set Display any awards associated with any 112 formed winning symbol combinations Are aniy N 0 of a plurality of different Nodesignated symbol combinations formed by the displayed symbols? Yes A r ,,, :111i! I ,116 moeof the formed deinae -- symbol combinations formed by the symbols displayed at N the symbol display areas of the first set? Yes SYMBOL DISPLAY AREAS OF DIFFERENT SETS OF SYMBOL DISPLAY AREAS Applicant: IGT Inventors: Jon M. Leupp et al. Docket No.: 025094-7210 FIG. 1B 100 B C For each of those formed designated symbol combinations: (a) for each of the symbols of that formed designated symbol combination, remove that symbol from the symbol display area at which that symbol is displayed to create an empty symbol display area; and (b) for each _118 symbol display area of the second set that corresponds to a symbol display area of the first set from which a symbol of that formed designated symbol combination was removed, remove the symbol displayed at that symbol display area to create an empty symbol display area Are one or more of the formed designated symbol combinations formed by the symbols displayed at the symbol display areas of the second set? Yes For each of those formed designated symbol combinations: (a) for each of the symbols of that formed designated symbol combination, remove that symbol from the symbol display area at which that symbol is displayed to create an empty symbol display area; and (b) for each 122 symbol display area of the first set that corresponds to a symbol display area of the second set from which a symbol of that formed designated symbol combination was removed, remove the symbol displayed at that symbol display area to create an empty symbol display area Do any displayed symbols have No :. a spatial designated relationship with any empty symbol display areas? Yes For each displayed symbol having the designated spatial relationship with one or more empty symbol display areas, reposition that displayed F126 symbol to one of those empty symbol display areas to fill that empty symbol display area and create another empty symbol display area _128 For each remaining empty symbol display area, display one of the symbols at that empty symbol display area