Patent ID: 8342950

Claim:
A method of playing a hidden attraction game in a gaming machine, the gaming machine having a base game with a base game pay table, the method comprising: determining, in a processor in the gaming machine, an idle time period since last game play of the gaming machine; detecting a wager, in a wager detector in the gaming machine, to play the base game; playing the hidden attraction game, in the gaming machine under control of the processor, for a set number of successive wagers only when detecting the wager occurs after the determined period of idle time; for each successive wager in the set number in playing the hidden attraction game, the method further comprising: 1.) providing an attraction game outcome with an attraction award from an attraction pay table in a memory of the gaming machine, the attraction game outcome with the attraction award corresponding to a base game outcome in the base game pay table having a base game award; and 2.) displaying on, the display of the gaming machine, the corresponding base game outcome and base game award for the provided attraction game outcome and the provided attraction award; and ending play of the hidden attraction game in the gaming machine after the set number of successive wagers occurs, at the end of play of the hidden attraction game a value corresponding to the sum of the attraction awards awarded during the set number of successive wagers mostly equals a value corresponding to the sum of the set number of successive wagers made, wherein the aforesaid mostly equals a value is equivalent to: equals to the value, or equals the value plus or minus one wager, or equals the value plus or minus one unit of the wager; and wherein playing the hidden attraction game in the gaming machine results in displaying only base game outcomes and awards on the display corresponding to hidden attraction game outcomes and awards during the set number of successive wagers without any visible indication on the display that the hidden attraction game is being played.