Patent ID: 7972207

Claim:
A method for a player to play a game of chance using a computer based system and a display device wherein the game of chance utilizes pay lines that are dynamically determined during game play and the game of chance has a matrix of positions in which game play indicia are displayed on the display device, and a plurality of pay lines are used to indicate winning combinations of game play indicia along each pay line through the matrix displayed on the display device, the method comprising the steps of: (a) displaying game play indicia in a first group of positions in the display matrix displayed on the display device as randomly determined by the computer; (b) the player selecting game play indicia in the first group of positions in the display matrix randomly displayed on the display device by the computer based system after the start of game play, the player selected game play indicia to be held and used during game play; (c) randomly replacing the game play indicia not selected by the player to be held from the first group of positions in the display matrix displayed on the display device with replacement indicia; (d) the computer randomly selecting additional game play indicia that are displayed in positions in the display matrix displayed on the display device other than in the first group of positions; and (e) the computer based system routing all pay lines through the matrix displayed on the display device to pass through the game play indicia held by the player in the first group of positions in the display matrix.