Patent ID: 7455585

Claim:
A method of conducting a wagering game on a gaming machine, comprising: receiving a wager from a player; providing an opportunity to accumulate a plurality of award opportunities during a series of displays of randomly generated symbol arrays in a first game feature; accumulating a plurality of award opportunities during said series of displays of randomly generated symbol arrays in said first game feature, at least one award opportunity being awarded for each occurrence of a predetermined reel symbol or symbol combination in any of said randomly generated symbol arrays; and realizing the plurality of award opportunities during a second game feature conducted only subsequent to completion of the accumulating of the plurality of award opportunities during said series of displays of randomly generated symbol arrays in said first game feature, wherein the second game feature is an interactive multi-choice selection feature including a plurality of player-selectable elements, each of the plurality of award opportunities permitting a selection of any of the player-selectable elements for which an award has not been revealed.