Patent ID: 7927208

Claim:
A method of providing sequential play of a casino slot game on a gaming machine, the casino slot game having a plurality of pay lines, the method comprising: providing in the sequential play of the casino slot game an occurrence of at least one attribute; receiving a wager from a player via the gaming machine to play a number of the plurality of pay lines for each sequential play of the casino slot game; incrementing a total number of pay lines played by the aforesaid number in response to receiving the wager and when the at least one attribute does not occur; when the total number of pay lines played exceeds a preset threshold stored in a database of the gaming machine, awarding the player an additional payoff, the additional payoff awarded in addition to any payoff for a casino slot game win in the sequential play of the casino slot game; and resetting the total number of pay lines played in response to a first of awarding the additional payoff and the occurrence of the at least one attribute.