Patent ID: 7476151

Claim:
A gaming apparatus for conducting a wagering game on a gaming machine having a housing, the gaming apparatus comprising: an electro-mechanical award display, the award display including a plurality of physical elements each located at a different location on the housing and movable relative to a panel of the housing between a viewable extended position toward a player and a viewable retracted position away from the player, the physical elements bearing a viewable game outcome, the physical elements being moveable between the extended and retracted positions along a path perpendicular to the panel, and each of the moving physical elements being stopped in either the extended position or the retracted position; and wherein the location and position of each of the plurality of physical elements indicates an associated game outcome based on which of the physical elements are stopped in the extended position and which of the physical elements are stopped in the retracted position, the game outcome being viewable in both the extended and retracted positions regardless of whether the physical element is in the extended position or the retracted position.