Patent ID: 8251824

Claim:
A central determination gaming system comprising: a central controller configured to operate to: (A) store a game outcome seed set, wherein said game outcome set includes a plurality of predetermined game outcome seeds and at least two of said game outcome seeds are deterministic of different game outcomes, (B) select one of said game outcome seeds from said game outcome seed set, (C) prevent said selected game outcome seed from further selection from said game outcome seed set, and (D) output said selected game outcome seed; and at least one gaming terminal including: a display device, an input device, a processor, and a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the display device and the input device to: (i) enable a player to initiate a play of a primary wagering game and (ii) for said play of the primary wagering game to: (a) receive said selected game outcome from said central controller, (b) determine a game outcome based on said selected game outcome seed, (c) enable the player to select one or more symbols from a plurality of symbols in said primary wagering game, (d) for each player selected symbol, associate said player selected symbol with a different one of a plurality of predefined symbols, (e) for each predefined symbol, associate said predefined symbol with a different one of said player selected symbols, (f) generate one or more game symbols based on said selected game outcome seed, (g) for each of said player selected symbols in the generated set of game symbols: (I) determine the predefined symbol associated with said player selected symbol, and (II) present said predefined symbol to the player, (h) for each of said predefined symbols in the generated set of game symbols: (I) determine the player selected symbol associated with said predefined symbol, and (II) present said player selected symbol to the player, (i) present to the player each of the remaining generated game symbols, and (j) provide the player the determined game outcome in the primary wagering game.