Patent ID: 7410419

Claim:
A method of conducting a wagering game on a gaming machine, the wagering game including a plurality of winning game outcomes, the gaming machine including a controller coupled to at least one display device, the method comprising: detecting player selection of a first wager amount from a plurality of displayed wager amounts of the wagering game; detecting player selection of a first wager cell from a displayed assemblage of wager cells of the wagering game, each of the displayed assemblage of wager cells corresponding to one of the plurality of winning game outcomes, each of the plurality of winning game outcomes having a respective value payout ratio; displaying the game play outcome of the wagering game in response to detecting game play initiation; and awarding a value payout to the player if the game play outcome includes the winning game outcome corresponding to the first wager cell, wherein the wagering game comprises a slot game, the game play outcome including a game outcome reel symbol array having a plurality of reel symbol positions and a plurality of pay lines, and each of the plurality of reel symbol positions being occupied by one of a plurality of reel symbols of the wagering game, and the assemblage of wager cells is arranged in a grid formed by a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each row of the plurality of rows corresponding to an occurrence of at least one reel symbol of the plurality of reel symbols, each column of a first group comprising a plurality of columns corresponding to at least one pay line of the plurality of pay lines, and each column of a second group comprising a plurality of columns corresponding to one reel of the slot game.