Patent ID: 8298069

Claim:
A method of controlling a plurality of reels of an electromechanical wager-based gaming machine comprising: selecting a reference reel from among the plurality of reels; determining an offset between the final reel position of the reference reel and the final reel position of each other reel; spinning the plurality of reels, the reference reel spun according to a predetermined profile, the predetermined profile selected to stop the selected reel at its final position; sensing positions of each of the plurality of reels during spinning; and adjusting reel speeds of each of the other reels relative to the reference reel to align the other reels with the reference reel according to their determined offsets from the reference reel such that the position of each other reel with respect to the reference reel is equal to the determined offset and such that the other reels stop at the same time as the reference reel.