Patent ID: 7749068

Claim:
A gaming device comprising: at least one input device configured to receive an input of a wager; a display device configured to operate to display: (i) a plurality of locations including a first location and at least one setback condition location, wherein the plurality of said locations form a path, and (ii) at least one symbol adapted to make a plurality of moves to a plurality of the locations, a processor; and at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to operate with said at least one input device and said display device, for each play of a game, to: (a) cause the symbol to move to one of the locations along the path toward the first location, (b) for each occurrence of the symbol moving to the at least one setback condition location, randomly determine whether to relocate the symbol to one of the locations along the path further from the first location, (c) if the random determination is to relocate the symbol to one of the locations along the path further from the first location, move the symbol to one of the locations along the path further from the first location, (d) determine a number of each of the locations the symbol has moved to, (e) repeat steps (a) to (d) until the symbol moves to the first location, and (f) provide a player an award based on the determined number of locations the symbol has moved to before the symbol moves to the first location, said award being separate from any value which is associated with any of the locations prior to the symbol being moved to any of said locations.