Patent ID: 8905833

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: at least one display device; at least one input device; at least one processor; and at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device and the at least one input device, for a play of a game, to: (a) select a starting playing card from a plurality of playing cards, each of the plurality of playing cards including at least two of a plurality of different symbols and at two of the plurality of playing cards each including at least one terminator, (b) select a draw playing card from the plurality of playing cards, (c) display the symbols and any terminators of the selected playing cards, (d) determine any awards based on any matching symbols between the selected playing cards, (e) if each of the selected playing cards include at least one corresponding terminator, cause a termination event to occur, and (f) if each of the selected playing cards do not include at least one corresponding terminator: (i) discard the selected playing card, (ii) reclassify the selected draw playing card as another starting playing card, (iii) select another draw playing card from the plurality of playing cards, (iv) display the symbols and any terminators of the draw playing cards, and (v) repeat (d) to (f) at least once.