Patent ID: 7874913

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 display device and the at least one input device to: (a) display a plurality of symbol generators, each symbol generator having a plurality of symbols including a predetermined symbol, (b) display a wheel including a plurality of sections, each of said sections including one of a plurality of outcomes, a plurality of said outcomes being different, (c) display a plurality of section indicators associated with the wheel, each of the plurality of section indicators being independently and respectively linked with a different one of the symbol generators and each symbol generator being independently and respectively linked with a different one of the section indicators, and (d) after displaying the plurality of symbol generators, the wheel and the plurality of section indicators associated with the wheel, for a single play of a game upon a wager by a player: (i) for each of the symbol generators: (A) randomly generate at least one of the symbols of said symbol generator, and (B) cause that symbol generator to display said randomly generated symbols, and (ii) if at least one of the predetermined symbols is randomly generated: (A) cause the wheel to start spinning, (B) cause the wheel to stop spinning at a randomly determined position, said randomly determined position being separate from the random generations of the symbols, (C) for each symbol generator, if said symbol generator randomly generated the predetermined symbol, activate the section indicator independently and respectively linked to that symbol generator, (D) for each activated section indicator, indicate a different one of the sections of the wheel stopped at the randomly determined position, (E) determine an award, said determined award based, at least in part, on each of the outcomes of the indicated sections of the wheel stopped at the randomly determined position, and (F) display and provide any determined award to the player.