Patent ID: 7364159

Claim:
An apparatus for presenting gaming payouts, comprising: a floor structure comprising a plurality of false floor elements; a plurality of physical award elements configured to physically couple to the plurality of false floor elements; a plurality of physical obscuring elements controllable to selectively obscure the plurality of physical award elements; an extension/retraction mechanism coupled to the plurality of physical award elements configured to temporarily retract the plurality of physical award elements to an opposite side of the floor structure; an obscuring element manipulator controllable to manipulate the plurality of physical obscuring elements, thereby performing an apparent shuffling of the plurality of physical award elements; and a user selection interface to facilitate user selection of one or more of the physical obscuring elements, wherein the extension/retraction mechanism is further configured to extend at least the physical award elements associated with the selected one or more selected physical obscuring elements through the floor structure upon user selection of the one or more of the physical obscuring elements.