Patent ID: 8808082

Claim:
A slot machine for presenting a game to a player comprising: a plurality of reels, wherein each of the plurality of reels has a plurality of symbols along its perimeter, at least one pay line, a plurality of switches for the player to interact with the slot machine, a microprocessor with a computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program to control the operation of the slot machine, means for manually selecting, via one of the plurality of switches, at least one of the plurality of reels, and establishing, prior to activating a spinning of the plurality of the reels, a setting for the selected at least one reel to automatically move by one position in a player-specified movement direction after it comes to a stop subsequent to the spinning, means for controlling the selected at least one reel to move by one position in the player-specified movement direction, and means for evaluating the symbol pattern at the at least one pay line for determining a winning combination.