Patent ID: 7946916

Claim:
A method of facilitating play of a variable payout base game on a plurality of workstations including a first workstation having a display, the variable payout base game having a pay table, comprising the steps of: (a) at a gaming server, randomly selecting an initial determination of a payout percentage for an instance of the variable payout base game played by the first workstation, the payout percentage being a function of a probability distribution of symbols associated with a result of a turn of play of the variable payout base game; (b) generating one or more results of turns of play of the variable payout base game instance at the gaming server in accordance with the initial determination of a payout percentage and transmitting said result(s) of play to the first workstation; (c) at the gaming server, dynamically re-determining by randomly selecting the payout percentage for the instance of play of the variable payout base game played by the first workstation while leaving the pay table unchanged, the re-determined payout percentage being a function of a different probability distribution of symbols associated with a result of a turn of play of the variable payout base game, whereby the player is not alerted to any change in the payout percentage in the random re-determination of the payout percentage due the pay table remaining unchanged; and (d) generating one or more further results of turns of play of the variable payout base game at the gaming server in accordance with the re-determination of the payout percentage in step (c) and transmitting said further result(s) of play to the first workstation, wherein the results of turns of play of the variable payout base game in steps (b) and (d) are generated on demand in response to play of the variable payout base game on the first workstation and wherein the re-determination of the payout percentage is independent of play of the same variable payout base game on other workstations in the plurality of workstations.