Patent ID: 7338369

Claim:
A gaming device operable under control of a processor, said gaming device comprising: a game controlled by the processor; a plurality of reels in the game; a plurality of symbols on the reels, said symbols including at least one designated symbol; a plurality of winning combinations of said symbols; a plurality of losing combinations of said symbols; a plurality of awards associated with the plurality of winning combinations of said symbols; a plurality of modifiers associated with the game, wherein at least two of the modifiers are different; a plurality of paylines associated with the plurality of reels, wherein a plurality of said paylines are each individually associated with at least one of said modifiers; and a display device operable to display said game; wherein said processor is programmed to operate with the display device to control a play of the game by: (a) enabling a player to place at least one payline wager amount on each of one or more of the paylines; (b) generating a plurality of the symbols on the reels; (c) determining if said generated symbols form one of the winning combinations of said symbols; (d) determining if the designated symbol was generated on one of said paylines; (e) if the generated symbols form one of the winning combinations of said symbols and the designated symbol was not generated on one of said paylines, providing the player the award associated with the formed winning combination of said symbols; and (f) if the generated symbols form one of the winning combinations of said symbols and the designated symbol was generated on one of said paylines: (i) modifying the award associated with the formed winning combination of said symbols with the modifier associated with the payline which the designated symbol was generated on, and (ii) providing the player the modified award.