Patent ID: 8287352

Claim:
A gaming apparatus comprising a symbol display system for a wagering game, a processor controlling the symbol display system and software executed by the processor, wherein the software is executed by the processor to perform electronic functions of: a) providing a method of value crediting and debiting that identifies value risked in the play of the wagering game and awards won in the play of the wagering game; b) providing a game control component that determines rules of play of a first game and a wagering game played on the gaming apparatus; c) providing activation of selection from virtual spinners consisting of first games that provide first game outcomes that have individual first game determinant outcomes or individual symbol determinant outcomes mathematically distributed within the virtual outcome determinant space of the virtual spinner; d) providing a file of individual symbols, values and/or images available for display on the symbol display system or retention in memory by the processor, the specific display of individual symbols, values and/or images, sets of symbols or collective symbols being determined by predetermined weighted portions of the virtual outcome determinant space selected by the virtual spinners in the first game; e) the software responding to user commands to initiate the first game by randomly accessing the predetermined weighted portions of the outcome determinant space to select individual symbols, values and/or images, sets of symbols or collective symbols for use in the wagering game; f) determining whether the randomly accessed predetermined weighted portions of the outcome determinant space has provided a final set of individual symbols, values and/or images, sets of symbols or collective symbols that constitute a win according to the wagering game; and g) resolving all value placed at risk in the play of the wagering game according to the determination in f).