Patent ID: 8764548

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: at least one input device; at least one display device; at least one processor; and at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one input device and the at least one display device to: (a) enable a player to individually place a wager on each of a plurality of different individual starting positions, (b) generate: (i) a predetermined directional symbol having a predetermined output direction at each of the plurality of different starting positions, wherein the predetermined output direction is compatible with at least one of a plurality of different input directions and is incompatible with at least another one of the plurality of different input directions, and (ii) a plurality of directional symbols at a plurality of symbol display positions, each directional symbol having at least one of the plurality of different input directions and at least one of a plurality of different output directions, wherein at least one of the input directions is compatible with at least one of the output directions and at least one of the input directions is incompatible with at least one of the output directions, (c) display each of the generated directional symbols, and (d) for each wagered on starting position: (i) determine a quantity of any adjacent compatible directional symbols in any sets of symbols associated with the wagered on starting position, the determination of the quantity being based, at least in part, on if at least one input direction of at least one of the displayed directional symbols is compatible with at least one output direction of at least another one of the displayed directional symbols, (ii) if a designated quantity of any adjacent compatible directional symbols is determined associated with the wagered on starting position, provide the player an award associated with the designated quantity, wherein a first award is associated with a first quantity of adjacent compatible directional symbols and a second, different award is associated with a second, different quantity of adjacent compatible directional symbols, and (iii) if no designated quantity of any adjacent compatible directional symbols is determined associated with the wagered on starting position, provide no award to the player in association with said wagered on starting position.