Patent ID: 6913533

Claim:
A gaming device comprising: a game; a plurality of levels in said game, wherein at least one of said levels is related to at least another one of said levels; a plurality of selections in each of said levels of said game, wherein each selection is in one level and only one of the selections in each of said levels may be picked in the game; at least one award associated with at least one of said selections in said game; a display device adapted to display said game; and a processor operable with said display device to control the play of said game by: (a) causing a pick of one of the plurality of selections in one of said levels; (b) limiting at least one selection in at least one of said levels from being subsequently picked in the game, wherein said level which includes the limited selection is related to the level of said picked selection; (c) repeating steps (a) to (b) for at least another one of said levels, wherein steps (a) to (b) are repeated until a terminating event occurs; and (d) providing the player any award based on the picked selections.