Patent ID: 7413508

Claim:
A gaming device comprising: at least one input device; at least one display device; at least one processor; and at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one input device and the at least one display device to control each play of a game by: (a) causing a plurality of masked selections to be displayed to a player, said plurality of masked selections associated with a plurality of awards including a largest award, each of said awards associated with at least one of said masked selections, (b) unmasking at least one of said masked selections to reveal to the player the award associated with said at least one of the masked selections before enabling the player to pick any of the masked selections to inform the player that said award is associated with said selection for said play of the game, wherein one of the selections which is unmasked includes said masked selection associated with the largest award, (c) enabling the player to pick at least one of the masked selections, and (d) providing the player with at least one award associated with the player picked masked selection or selections, wherein the award provided to the player is determined after said player picks the masked selections, and wherein the award provided to the player does not have to be the displayed largest award.