Patent ID: 8690663

Claim:
A method of administering games at a gaming machine or gaming terminal adapted for accepting overall wagers, playing games based on the overall wagers and granting monetary awards based on a plurality of results of the games, the method comprising: providing a gaming machine or system having at least a master gaming controller and a configurator adapted to facilitate provision of one or more operator adjustable settings to an operator of said gaming machine or system; adjusting at least one of said one or more operator adjustable settings, wherein said at least one adjusted operator adjustable setting includes at least one of a minimum overall wager, a maximum overall wager, a minimum number of paylines to be played, a denomination, and a payline's wagered incremental value; offering to a player of said gaming machine or gaming terminal an option to change at least one game parameter, said at least one game parameter including at least one of a denomination to be played, an overall wager amount, a number of paylines to be played, and a wager amount per payline, wherein a limit of said at least one game parameter is defined by the result of said adjusting step; accepting a first input from said player implementing one or more changes to at least said denomination to be played; calculating automatically, based on the first input, an appropriate value for each of the remaining game parameters from said at least one game parameter; receiving a second input from said player regarding initiation of a game play based on said accepted and automatically calculated game parameters; disabling receipt of a third input from said player which would implement one or more changes to said at least one game parameter after said adjusting said at least one of said one or more operator adjustable settings, wherein the third input is disabled in response to receipt of the first input from said player implementing one or more changes to said denomination to be played and independent of receipt of the second input from said player regarding initiation of game play, wherein the third input is capable of being received from said player before said adjusting said at least one of said one or more operator adjustable settings, and wherein an input device that receives the third input is present at said gaming machine before and after said adjusting said at least one of said one or more operator adjustable settings; playing a first game based on said accepted and automatically calculated game parameters; and granting a monetary award to said player based on the result of said game.