Patent ID: 8900045

Claim:
A method for providing a wagering game including: (a) controlling a touch sensitive gaming display with one or more electronic processors, the gaming display including a first gaming zone comprising a matrix of symbol locations which are updated to provide results of the game by showing graphic symbols, the gaming display further comprising a second symbol selection gamepiece zone outside of the first gaming zone for reflecting the state of a symbol selection gamepiece; (b) receiving a first player game activation and, in response, animating the first gaming zone to show a first game result in the symbol locations, the game result having a chance to include a symbol selection gamepiece trigger event; (c) in the case that (b) resulted in a symbol selection gamepiece trigger event, activating a function of the symbol selection gamepiece in the game by (i) animating the second symbol selection gamepiece zone and the first gaming zone to show the symbol selection gamepiece sequentially in time making a temporary selection of various ones of the symbols in the matrix of symbol locations, and (ii) receiving a player interaction input designated for the symbol selection gamepiece, and (iii) in response to receiving the player interaction input, or if no player interaction input is received, after a determined amount of time has passed, stopping the sequential selections of the symbol selection gamepiece to choose a final selected symbol, and (iv) providing an award based on the final selected symbol; and (d) paying an award if the game result is a winning game outcome.