Patent ID: 7303469

Claim:
A gaming device comprising: a wagering game operable upon a wager by a player; a secondary game operable upon an occurrence of a triggering event in the wagering game; a plurality of selection groups in the secondary game; a plurality of selections in each of said selection groups; a guaranteed number of picks associated with each selection group, wherein each guaranteed number of picks includes at least one pick, and wherein said guaranteed number of picks of at least one of the selection groups is less than said number of selections in said selection group; a plurality of awards, each of said plurality of awards having a value greater than zero, wherein each said award is individually associated with at least one of the selections, and wherein each selection has one of said awards individually associated with said selection; a display device; an input device; and a processor programmed to operate with the display device and the input device, for each play of the secondary game, to sequentially display each of the selection groups to the player in said play of the secondary game, and when each of the selection groups is being displayed in said play of the secondary game: (a) simultaneously display to the player each of the selections in said selection group, (b) enable the player to make the associated guaranteed number of picks of the selections in said selection group, without regard to any of the selections picked in any of the other selection groups, (c) evaluate each of the picked selections to determine the award associated with each of the picked selections, and (d) display and provide to the player the determined awards, wherein the player is provided a number of determined awards which is at least equal to the number of selections picked in said selection group.