Patent ID: 7922575

Claim:
An apparatus for playing a video game of chance, said apparatus comprising: a display screen; a processor; and memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to provide the video game of chance, comprising: a) visually depicting on the display screen a symbol display area comprising a plurality of symbol locations; b) identifying a plurality of pay lines, each pay line comprising a unique ordered proper subset of the plurality of symbol locations, and wherein each pay line has a corresponding individual line multiplier; c) storing a player wager comprising one or more active pay lines, and comprising a wager amount per active pay line; d) determining a game outcome by displaying one of a plurality of symbols in each of the plurality of symbol locations; e) for each active pay line, determining a line payout based on a comparison of its unique ordered proper subset of symbol locations to a pay table, and further based on the wager amount per pay line, and further multiplied by its corresponding individual line multiplier; f) crediting all line payouts to the player; and g) for each active pay line on which a line payout has been credited to the player, incrementing its corresponding individual line multiplier for an immediately subsequent game, independent of the line payout based on all other pay lines.