Patent ID: 8235796

Claim:
A gaming apparatus, comprising: a display configured to display a plurality of rotatable reel images on corresponding display areas, wherein each of the rotatable reel images has more than three symbol positions; and a processor operatively coupled to the display, the processor being operable to: determine an arrangement of symbols on all of the symbol positions for each of the rotatable reel images by selecting symbols to be set on all of the symbol positions of each rotatable reel image from discrete symbol candidates based on selection probabilities associated with the discrete symbol candidates respectively; perform a lottery process by generating at least one random number for stopping movement of the rotatable reel images so as to display a part of the predetermined arrangement of symbols on each corresponding display area; and control the display to display each of the rotatable reel images on the corresponding display area based on the determined arrangement of symbols so that the symbols on all of the symbol positions of each rotatable reel image are successively moved in accordance with the predetermined arrangement of symbols and then stopped on the corresponding display areas so as to display the part of the predetermined arrangement of symbols based on a result of the lottery process in response to operation of a player.