Patent ID: 7963841

Claim:
A gaming device 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 said at least one processor, cause said at least one processor to operate with said at least one input device and said at least one display device to, for a play of a game: (a) display a plurality of selectable indicators, each of said selectable indicators having a predetermined independent probability of being a success indicator associated with said selectable indicator, wherein the independent probabilities associated with the selectable indicators are independent of each other, wherein at least two of the selectable indicators are associated with different independent probabilities, (b) enable a player to pick of one of said displayed selectable indicators, (c) determine whether said picked selectable indicator is the success indicator or a failure indicator, said determination being based on an independent random generation in accordance with the independent probability associated with said picked selectable indicator, (d) if the picked selectable indicator is the failure indicator, automatically terminate the play of the game for the player, and (e) if the picked selectable indicator is the success indicator: (i) display any award associated with said picked selectable indicator, and (ii) repeat (b) to (e) until any picked selectable indicator is the failure indicator or until all of the displayed selectable indicators have been picked.