Patent ID: 6981917

Claim:
A gaming device comprising: a first game; a plurality of symbol generators in said first game, each of said symbol generators including a plurality of symbols, at least one of said symbol generators including a terminator symbol and at least one of said symbol generators including a second game triggering symbol; an independently operated second game, said second game associated with the symbol generator having said second game triggering symbol; a termination condition associated with the symbol generator having the terminator symbol, wherein said termination condition occurs when a designated number of the terminator symbols are generated by said symbol generator; at least one display device operable to display the first game and the second game; and a processor operable with the display device to activate the symbol generators for a number of activations, initiate the second game when the second game triggering symbol is generated by the symbol generator including said second game triggering symbol in said activations and terminate the first game when the termination condition occurs in said activations.